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According to the following story ( news.deviantart.com/article/60… )that is how you get more popular. I am here to tell you all the evils of how to NOT have the pageviews or the allmighty popularity.
-ehem-
--Do Original Artwork--
Heaven forbid you make something that's not a fanart. Not drawing fanart will clearly result in millons of faves, and I mean... who would ever want such a thing? So... draw your own characters, create your own style, put time and effort into your work and you're golden! Such things will never result in any kind of attention, so you're good.
--Be Nice--
If you're nice to people, you'll get less attention. Since blocking and hiding any comments that offer advice on how to get better result in more love, you must always be nice and honest. Hiding comments and never asking for critiques makes you seem all mysterious and junk which is strangely attractive. Don't do it...
--Never Trace--
Thats the easiest way to get yourself up in the clouds of godly popular artists here on dA. Tracing Naruto screenshots will get you billions of faves in the first three seconds, so in that case stick to being original and creative even if you did draw fanart.
So what did we learn from all this?
To sum everything up, you have to be creative and original. Best thing you can do, is actually be a good artist and create wondeful pieces of art like nothing enyone ever seen before. With perfect anatomy, creative concepts and eyecatching colors. If you can do all that you will never EVER reach popularity... But I can tell you one thing... You will most definitely will be respected more. You'll actually get somewhere with your art.
I am very dissapointed with DeviantArt at the moment... I believe it should be changed to DeviantSpace... It's not about art anymore, it's about who gets more pageviews and who gets more faves on their traced 'artwork'.
Sure... if all you want is fake adoration, then go ahead and follow the simple rules listed in the link above. But if you are an artist and you take pride in your work... then keep doing what you are doing.
Thank you for reading. Thank you for understanding.
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Ah-freaking-men. 
Now if only these people would UNDERSTAND that posting on deviantART will not help them get a job or resume. People should be real, show their ideas, and express what they like, even if it does suck.
People improve, and unfortunately, many young artists assume that it just comes quickly to someone. Art does not work that way.
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And that's precisely what I'm doing! No Naruto here. (Or anything over hyped for that matter)
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That boggled my brain at first, but then I got it.
I'm curious as to the recent amounts of news articles about popularity.
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12 rejections. How pathetic.
Meanwhile, Vampirella87's own "How To Get Popular" news got 540+ rejections.
Shows how she has more haters than fans.
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What if you'd like more pageviews but not just for the sake of it? What if you want to get your art to audiences? Isn't that part of being an artist? Trying to get a message across?
I'm not meaning to go against you or anything here, forgive me if I offend.
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there are ways to get your art out there... but it's pretty sad that to get your art out there on this particular website, is by making fanart, and lots of it
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As in anime stuff?
God I really don't do that..
Ah well.
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pretty much.
In your case, i see a lot of photos in your gallery, you need to take pictures of naked women and you'll get raped by faves.
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Well if I did that, then it wouldn't be my art anymore...
I'd rather have no faves than faves on something that I wasn't inspired to do.
And anyway, it'd have to be pictures of me and that wouldn't work
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THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH. This is almost the story of my life. D:
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totally.. dA made me think my art sucks just of this popularity contest.
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If I can add something you have more favs on this journal in 3 days then Mrs.V in week.But its not matter
The point is people know your right!
Congratulation you open eyes to people who didnt know the true.
Besides congrats about people who adore you its nice to be `loved`^^
~
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i agree wholeheartedly. DA annoys the shit out of me, but it's nice to have so if anyone's actually INTERESTED in my art, they can just go online XD
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LOLOLOL
This has more favs than that other article.
+1 approval for you. ♥
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Wait wait! You forgot something! If you DON'T want pageviews, then don't draw naked girls or upload nude photos of yourself or someone else.
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o_o' why would people obsess over pageviews and '
As for tracing, I hate that =_= and worse, people who do not know how to properly credit or LABLE they trace. So very very sad.
But that being said, I'm proud of each of my favorites and hits. I can only hope people found something to enjoy ^_^
~Kip
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Edit: and the tracing i refer to is tracing of screenshots or other are you did not create. Not the use of enlarging or refining your OWN art. ^_^
~Kip
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that sentense made little sence...
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No, it made perfect sense ^_^ And you managed to spell both 'sense' and 'sentence' wrong. See? See? I'm being meeeeeeen. I want popularrrrrrrrrrrrrityyyy!!!! XD anyhoo... though you seemed to lose yourself in that first paragraph, nicely done. I do see what you mean. :3
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My english is still pretty terrible i guess >_<
i don't understand simple comments and misspell my confusion XD
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aw, it's ok :3 English is, in fact, a ridiculously hard and random language. I was just playin' with ya :3 Thanks for your article, it made me smile and, better yet, think hard!
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Hmm... that DOESN'T, however, mean that most of the popular artists didn't work hard and develop incredible skill and earn their pageviews fair and square! It's just the fewwww... and concerning them, I agree completely. It's when someone traces and copies and never comes up with anything themselves and claims it all as their own and still becomes immensely popular and everyone believes them that you have a point. :3
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well, firstly,it wasn't a sentance, secondly i meant - if only the majority cared about art not pageviews and were here to share and show their love for art, not popularity. I've only been here a very short while and it's obvious what dominates DA 
ps. 'sense' 
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oh ok >_<;;; forgive me... my english still kicks me sometimes
sorry for making you explain >_<;;;
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don't apologise 
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I just put dumb stuff in my signature ^__^
Ahh yea another 3 suckers visited my page
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erm there are plenty of famous artists orginal that are orginal and treasured for their creativity and skill on this site, I should know I watch a few.
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I agree with you completely.
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I do the wee odd bit of fanart, but thats because I wanted to try and draw the characters; nothing to do with faveviews or whatever theyre called. But I agree- I dont like how, to some people, tracing random screenshots makes them Popular/talented Deviants...... -_-;
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I would like to add that what seems to be the most effective way to not get more popular is to write u.u;; I've gotten more page views in one day on pictures of my backyard than any one of my poems (heaven forbid short stories!) has accumulated in a year >.o
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Yes i kinda regret not saying anything about people who come here for literature purposes >_< they are like.. complete underdogs...
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DD:
daaaamn!! I think I'm the only one here who actually thinks that people submit their fanart and traces out of love of anime and whatnot. DX so hard being the only one!! (i mean it's not like gaia where the more you submit things other people like you get gold or anything >> )
but i do likes the unpopularity types around here. 'cuz their like my bestest friends on devart and i <33 for evs. )
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I agree with majority of what you said..At first I was butt hurt and was going to leave Deviant but I had to ask myself why I came here in the first place....and I learned that i am not doing this for page views, if I were I should have left long ago, but I am doing this for me......only for ME! Photography doesn't make them come in droves, but I have seen some real crap on here that people are just all gaga over and I also realized that it's not my art, and yes what I do is ART, that's the problem, there actually is no people because it is and always will be different strokes for different folks, ya wanna see some great shots, come by my page, if your not into photography, no biggie, it's nice meeting you anyways!
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I really don't care about pageviews. If 10,000 is considered an "unknown artist" then I hardly even exist. What I concern myself with more, if anything, is how many views my actual works get. It's not because I want popularity, it's because I want someone to maybe find a little joy in something I created. Perhaps they'll find something that could be improved and tell me about it. It will help me evolve.
This is a popular website. There is going to be a core of respectful users who "get it" in regards to what this site is about, and there will be a large mass of people who don't.
I don't think one news article about what someone thinks are good ways to become popular on this site deserves the uproar and myriad of spin-off articles that it has created. Ignore what the person has said, don't take their advice and move on. It's just my opinion, but the subject of popularity should have been over a while ago. Propagating the issue isn't going to do anything except drive away truly creative artists that don't care about popularity.
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And I should add, I think it's disrespectful to ignore great artwork in favor of fanart. I almost feel like fanart shouldn't be on this site. Is it art? Yes. But it doesn't seem to fit the MO that deviantART tries to establish.
[link] should maybe be considered so artists of original works aren't overlooked?
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deviantfanart[dot]com is what I tried to say instead of the link
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I actually had someone flat out tell me that I'd get more pageviews if I did more fan art, because I guess I wasn't producing enough stuff from their favorite fandom to sustain them.
It really is dis-heartening to spend so much time and effort drawing an original character only to have it gather dust in my gallery. I'd love to be a concept artist, but whenever I see a creation of mine fall flat on it's butt it always makes me wonder if I'm just wasting my time.
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Oh my cod. You're completely right. This bugs me SO much. And of course you get like a million pageviews if you're rude, and if you draw furries with wings coming out of their ass.
It's insane.
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XD i am more likely to click on an assholes account (actually i do when i like the avatar)
ive never posted unoriginal work on my acccount, actually twice now that i think of it XD but i just liked drawing off things.
ripoff 1
=ed elric from full metal alchemist
ripoff2
=bongo bongo from ocarina of time
(love the article btw, so true)
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i love how this is about unpopularity and a bunch of people find this populary. haha! contradictory, ne? But it's actually quite cool.I'm kinda new to his, but ya know, all I wanna do is put art up for someone besides a couple of my friends at school to see. if people like it, then thy like it. if not, then they don't.
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ya im sick of these assholes who think theyre making art, they add all this pointless shit so i have to keep clicking next page to actualy see something good,.. this is an art site douchebags not myspaceart.com
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Fantastic, realistic and ironic description about how things are at the moment; i think you only missed a partiicular one (particularly on fanart/manganime style): "Don't be friends with the Gallery Directors. Specially if you're above 18".
FAV!
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You are right about most things, but eh, some people just can't help to feel optimistic about it even if the situation is screaming it's painful truths in their ears
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