#daphinteresting

Hi, DaphInteresting here.

I have come on here to announce that I have decided to close my tumblr art blog indefinitely here. :(

From this post onward, I will not be posting any more art or any posts on this blog. I have a few reasons of why I’ve decided to make this decision and if you’re interested to know them then please read onward from here.

Firstly, with being a self-employed worker, I’m very busy on a daily basis (I mean VERY busy) and the most difficult thing I find about sharing my work online is having to run so many SNS accounts like I do. So, to reduce my stress level and to keep myself from facing a complete burn-out (which has happened before) I feel like I have to limit the amount of accounts I am running here. Unfortunately, within having this account on hiatus, I thought over it and saw that tumblr would be the one I would have to let go. I have had a tumblr account since 2011. A very long time. I remember it just like it was yesterday when I first opened this blog. This very blog holds a special place in my heart since it is one I have had up for such a long time. I had good times here and so very much appreciate the support I got on my work that I had posted here. This blog will always and forever be cherished in my heart, even with me having to stop running it now.

Secondly, tumblr was once a good blogging site in it’s time but as you all should know it’s faced some problems in it’s time as well. These problems still go on to this very day. The porn blogs. The porn blogs have been a ever-growing problem with tumblr and long-time users of this platform could agree with me on it. At one point, tumblr said they were going to fix the problem by getting rid of these type of accounts but yet to have done so. If anything I see more porn blogs following me and interacting on my posts than ever before, even sending me weird and inappropriate videos and messages often. It’s horrible, and I’ve pretty much grown tired of it at this point. It seems tumblr isn’t going to fix this since this has been going on for a while now or maybe they can’t since there is just so many of these accounts that they are unable to get rid of all of them. Either way, enough is enough. Tumblr has no doubt gone downhill from it happening.

Many users had already left, making the site overall feel a bit empty. I won’t fully leave tumblr as I still have two non-art blogs that I use here from time to time that I blog on since I actually enjoy blogging. Blogging is a rather therapeutic activity for me to do when I'm taking a quick break from my super busy, busy work schedule. But still, I will not make it a priority of posting my work on this site anymore. Out of all my blogs I have, this one gets followed by porn blogs the most. It’s super unfortunate since this is my second most popular blog that I own. I worked hard on it to get the many amount of followers that I have. It really sucks at knowing that some of those followers are probably spam and porn accounts. But whatever.

Thirdly and lastly, I’ve noticed something which is also a huge problem with using social media to promote your work on in general is there is too many thieves out there. It’s just getting worst by the day where there are ones who come to steal my work and repost it without my permission. No credit given whatsoever either. They even come to sell my work without my permission and make a profit out of it. Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. I had already recognized that this would be the danger you’d have to face when posting up your work through social media. That it’s likely to get stolen, but it is just so darn sad and pathetic that we live in a world with people who won’t do the right thing. It's simple stuff, and yet there are too many ones out there who make it all difficult for you. All I want to do when I post MY artwork is show it to people who will respect it and appreciate it done by ME, not have other ones come to take fame and fortune from it. I work too hard on all of my illustrations and 'I' myself like to get recognized for it. ME. I could go on a long lecture about this but obviously this isn’t the place and time for it. Bottom line, I think the more I reduce the social media accounts I post up my work at, the less it can become stolen where it gets into so many people’s hands to do whatever they want with it. These thieves are desperate too as they will come to take your work even with watermarks being all over it. Again, very sad and pathetic. But it’s also a sad reality that we have to live with too. These days, stealing is clearly a problem even outside the internet, where people often get robbed wherever they are at any time of day. Just totally, utterly out of control.

So yeah, there you go. My reasons for closing down my beloved DaphInteresting blog. I like to think the reasons I gave here are understanding. To be honest, I feel like tumblr won’t be the only social media account I close down either. In the future, there will likely be more until the point I’m probably only using one or two social medias to promote my work at. I see it as being the less the better. Just have to narrow down my options.

Overall, with the ‘toxicity’ put to the side, of course, I still like to thank all the genuine supporters of my work here as tumblr isn’t clearly just filled with porn blogs and porn users. You ones are very cherished by me and I appreciate you all very much. If you are a genuine follower of my work and would like to keep updated on it, you can follow me on the social medias that I run with my work at now. This is currently the only social medias I’m posting up my work at until another announcement is made that I come to close another one again. Look through the ‘keep reading’ below to access them. Furthermore, if you want you can even follow me on them. I have put all my work and posts here on private so only this post will come to show when you visit this account. I decided to not leave up any of my posts because really there would be no point to do so and plus it could help to reduce the stealing of my work while at it. 

Again, thank you to all the supporters! Out of 430 followers, if you are not a porn or bot blog out of that and came to follow me because you genuinely liked my artwork and wanted to keep up with it, again you are very appreciated. I would love to have your continued support on my other accounts, if you’re interested to continue to see and follow me throughout my art journey. ❤

With that said, I bid farewell to this long-lived account. 😢