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FA: I'm a whore and need money by Buckdasystem

Boy howdy I thought I left this place behind but... I kinda need it. In the months since I left FA my traffic has started to dwindle. Not quickly mind you, FA has done plenty to keep traffic and business over on my tumblr and Weasyl in the meantime with the amount of bs and drama they've stirred up. But after a couple of months of FA keeping their nose clean and fairly well maintained (especially with lack of ddos attacks and upgraded servers), traffic has been vanishing elsewhere.

It IS the FA cycle (or cycle of any popular service), everyone gets mad at it and leaves it, then gradually come back to it for one reason or another. However, this serves as a problem to me, who has used commissions as a primary source of income. And watching traffic for commissions go from 8-12 person queues to 1-2 regularly, streams go from 20 to 5, the numbers speak for themselves. Part of a reason for my lethargy is my slow workpace, not having any work out there to tax me. I cannot survive off of the sloppy seconds/drama birds that fly south to Weasyl and Tumblr for the drama winters.

So with great aggravation, I'm returning to crossposting to FA, as well as posting on Weasyl, Tumblr, Patreon, and adding twitter and deviantart to my list of sites to keep up to date.

P.S.- Some sites I still deem as more "thematic" for certain types of posts: Tumblr you'll still find "sketchbook" posts, Patreon and Deviantart you'll find more "choice" posts from my commission pool. And Patreon I might start posting some exclusive arts, designs, and doing contests for.

FA: I'm a whore and need money

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    WOW

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    Sorry to hear about your lack of audience. It would be nice if everyone else was able to leave FA and stay off it; it would make the problem easier not only for you, but also for me.

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    I don't fault artists for continuing to use FA when they need the income. Do what you gotta do.

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    Think of it like a crappy building everyone hates, but has to work at anyway.

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      There's browsing FA, then there's browsing everywhere else. They did one thing right, and it's the only thing that matters.

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    I can understand. I actually find it pretty hard to leave FA completely too. Mostly because a lot of my favorite artists don't post elsewhere. But, you know what, whatever keeps you happy, right?

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    That's the part that I never understood. Why people associate FA-Drama with FA-The Website, they're two different things and people shouldn't leave the site, just because of the drama behind it.

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    The way I look at it, I'm not on FA for me, I'm on there for my watchers. I think I'm okay with that.

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    with all the bullshit going on over there and people leaving, my traffic even on there has dwindled and never fully recovered :/ my commission posts largely go unnoticed anymore.

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    I don't know how artists like yourself keep up with that many services. At least Weasyl has an extension for crossposting. :\