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  • I guess I passively knew about furries ever since I attended an anime con that had a few attending. 2013, I think? Five years later I joined a furry community on Discord with a friend as a joke, made friends, was peer pressured into designing and drawing myself a fursona because those friends wanted to draw art for me, and now I'm a proud degenerate. 😁👍

  • I ended up just disabling the alias I use to receive emails from LinkedIn. Since I noticed I just kept deleting those emails without ever reading them, I figured I'd just opt to not receive any emails. :D

  • Non-professional artist here with a few commissions under her belt. I'll answer from that POV.

    • I mostly draw for fun so I definitely don't expect money for it. And you definitely can't expect money right when you're starting out. However, I know some people who draw as their primary source of income, which leads to most of the art they produce being for income.
    • It honestly can be either a side hustle or a full job, depending on the demand, your speed and your prices. It doesn't have to be exhausting as a side hustle because you can adjust how much you do it considering your income doesn't depend on it (unless your actual job barely keeps you afloat in the first place, in which case it could become a second job, which definitely can be exhausting).
    • Again, your salary depends on your demand, speed and prices. I don't have personal experience on this because I rarely take commissions. Though even a semi-well-known artist who can work with relatively niche needs can make a few thousand (USD) a month.
    • Considering art is a luxury item, your job security will depend on the financial situation of your clients. If things like, say, a global pandemic happen and a lot of people are left struggling, you're likely going to be struggling as well since people will of course prioritise things they actually need.
    • I feel like both "get lucky" and "get noticed" apply here. Furry art is a very saturated market these days so if you can garner an audience, you're already in a very good place. If you get lucky by being, say, one of the first furry artists on a platform that ends up becoming popular among furries, you're going to be noticed just because you were there before the platform got saturated. I've also noticed that if you can and are comfortable drawing niche art (in my case, transformation), that gets noticed a lot easier. I'd say that if you have something unique to offer (e.g. a really unique style), you're also more likely to be noticed among the mass.
    • Fun or work, it varies. Artist friends who have made this their primary source of income say it's fun for them. For me, it felt stressful to draw for money. Then again, I underpriced my commissions way too much when I did them so that may have been a factor (amount of work compared to amount of money didn't feel worth it).

    In conclusion, it's a market with a lot of options for clients. I recommend, for any budding artists, to not think of art as a source of income first and foremost and just doing it because you love to create. If you can make some money or even your income from it eventually, that's definitely an added bonus. c:

  • LibreWolf is a hardened Firefox also available on Linux.

  • Glad I went with AMD when I built my current PC with the purpose to go full-time Linux.

  • Musk does not fuck

    There's a sentence I did not expect to read today, but kinda did expect to read someday.

  • The headstone depicted could be older.

  • I saw the first picture, thought "that's a TF potion if I've ever seen one." Opened the post and it is indeed a TF potion. :D

  • Some alternatives are just front-ends to YouTube. Thanks to those, I haven't used YouTube the site or the app in three years.

  • Thanks! Didn't know it had a fork.

  • Such extensions exist already. Privacy Redirect (see reply) lets you choose where to redirect YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Google Translate, Google Maps etc. links. c:

  • He probably has a dartboard filled with company names and wherever a dart hits, he'll go ruin that company.

  • FreeTube is also a good option. Runs locally on your computer with Invidious API to fall back on.

  • Note that "the Fediverse" consists of multiple platforms. Not just Lemmy. So no, this will not be a Fediverse mask-off moment. Perhaps a Lemmy mask-off moment, but definitely not the entire Fediverse.

  • I could make a joke considering the instance I'm on but I'll just bow out.

  • Well, I've thrown some of those screws out and THEN discovered where they fell out of. And I bet if I hadn't thrown them out then I would have never discovered their origin.

  • I wonder what they think the smoke does. Does it magically make kids trans or something?

  • Oh, the B can also promote butt stuff so let's remove that one as well. The L takes away from the S men so we should remove it so everyone gets an equal share. Ahhh, there we go. S. The acronym is complete.

    What do you mean we're right where we started?

  • What I did was say I'm deleting my WhatsApp account in [insert sensible time] and if anyone wants to contact me, to use Signal. Lost contact to some, but many followed.