Tahr_Yrre
CEO of Paws.
Basically, the title, if you vote please give also an explanation for it.
I'll start:
I voted WORSE, the reason is pretty much talking about the community side.
About 7 years ago, you could see users and artists chat, talk, discuss without problems, meanwhile, right now there seems to be an invisible wall that is dictated by how popular you are.
Sort of like high school.
And I guess a big part of it it's because big artists that have a business nowadays even have a high fear of cancel culture in the fandom where everything gets out of control pretty quickly.
It's pretty hard to make new friends because of close circles of 3-4 friends, I noticed that even on discord, small groups of friends sometimes interact in very meme-y ways without much meaning behind, but after that return to their small circle.
I feel like the community is becoming way too inclusive and judgemental starting with these points: -Fursona, Quality of arts you can afford- personality and all that seems to fade into the background, and I'm noticing that sometimes I'm guilty of that too.
The artistic part has gotten much BETTER, quality, prices you can always find what you are looking for at various prices, the only downside is that a lot of artists now hide their arts behind sites like Patreon/Gumroad that didn't exist before, which I understand since... It's their job
TLDR: Relationships have become worse and high-school like while the artistic side of the fandom has gotten MUCH better.
I'll start:
I voted WORSE, the reason is pretty much talking about the community side.
About 7 years ago, you could see users and artists chat, talk, discuss without problems, meanwhile, right now there seems to be an invisible wall that is dictated by how popular you are.
Sort of like high school.
And I guess a big part of it it's because big artists that have a business nowadays even have a high fear of cancel culture in the fandom where everything gets out of control pretty quickly.
It's pretty hard to make new friends because of close circles of 3-4 friends, I noticed that even on discord, small groups of friends sometimes interact in very meme-y ways without much meaning behind, but after that return to their small circle.
I feel like the community is becoming way too inclusive and judgemental starting with these points: -Fursona, Quality of arts you can afford- personality and all that seems to fade into the background, and I'm noticing that sometimes I'm guilty of that too.
The artistic part has gotten much BETTER, quality, prices you can always find what you are looking for at various prices, the only downside is that a lot of artists now hide their arts behind sites like Patreon/Gumroad that didn't exist before, which I understand since... It's their job
TLDR: Relationships have become worse and high-school like while the artistic side of the fandom has gotten MUCH better.