Three years later I still can't cope with Pixiv's betrayal....
Recently I began hosting content on newgrounds.com and I thought about returning back to Slushe.com as well. Having multiple platforms to market on is a better strategy than relying on just one platform and then hoping for the best unless everyone already is aware of who you are, then it could work out to some extent. Sort of like how all the major artists are relying on X/Twitter where they usually have the most followers. I tried X/Twitter but I'm normally too distrusting of the platform to attempt building up a long standing reputation only to have Musk fuck that up in the future, or Trump fucking it up if he decides to ban/kill off pornography which will then render every other explicit platform useless by default.
I went back to Hentaifoundry but the only issue with that platform is that they expect me to upload smaller image sizes, and this isn't something I want to do. I prefer to render all of my images in much larger sizes because they look better this way. Anyway after looking through Pixiv for an hour or so, I became painfully upset and depressed about what happened. Losing all that support and hard work I spent six years building up and benefiting from it whenever someone came to me for commission work....
Which is something I rarely receive outside out of Pixiv anywhere else. I am for the most part envious of artist who Pixiv haven't screwed over yet and they still have the opportunity to advance, grow, and build up more support while those unfortunate such as myself is struggling to get use to being a nobody, or at least feeling like a nobody without the support of a larger fanbase...
I've made a number of attempts to convince Pixiv to return my profile back to me, but no matter how much begging and pleading I did to change their minds it was futile.. They never answered and as I made my final attempt to have the wrongful suspension appealed. I was forced to give up and accept that nothing was going to change their minds on their decision to undermine my abilities to return back to bringing excitement to a much bigger appreciative crowd than what I've been forced to contend with since my demise and fall from Deviant Art back in 2015 when I was removed and suspended in a similar fashion. Gaining 12,000 followers was the biggest milestone I ever made in my artistic life...Having all of that stolen away from me is painful... It's one of the hardest things for me to accept because I am constantly being reminded about it even when I try to forget.
