I've stopped using twitter on a daily basis like I used to, it's called quitting a Vice, in which I get upset because I use twitter and I use twitter and get upset that for the past year I've been bleeding followers and getting generally less and less traffic, it's been happening before and I pretty much verified it as a fact, something I'm doing, someone I'm following or something I posted a long time ago makes it so I'm being throttled and losing followers, and I can't keep up with that.

I don't like the trends. I don't like the waifu of the week. I don't like the memes or the current thing nor the opposite of it. It didn't used to be a problem early on, I'm still allowed to grow, but it's painfully obvious I don't get big enough a reach. My own followers have been telling me that they didn't know I started commissions, because some of them have been waiting a long time for it and twitter didn't show them my post whenever I put it up in exchange for something else.

I admit though, I'm not a fantastic PHENOMENAL artist that can effortlessly put up a nice detailed picture of a very stylish anime girl to get 40 thousand per post, I'm slow, I'm sloppy, and I'm losing heart, and I'm wishing I could start doing something else, even though I started this porn gig because literally it'd be the only way to stay relevant, so I'm stuck in this weird "I like it but I don't" situation in which everything that I don't like about being a furry porn artist has to do with the envoirment I'm forced to present myself to, which by default doesn't want to put me on equal grounds.

I now only use twitter for actual posting, which sucks because there's a lot of fantastic people that I follow, and not all of them use newgrounds, or pixiv or other alts, I don't like disabling retweets because sometimes I value their preferences enough I wanna see what they like (unless it's retarded political takes, then I seriously want to meet you in real life and shoot you.), and I honestly do like SOME of the shit twitter reccomends me, even though I didn't ask for it and it's 70% of my feed.

The advice I would've given to myself was to have blocked twitter and stopped using it sooner - it killed my productivity and mood for the good entirety of the past 2 years, the fact that I can have some peace of mind and not stop what I'm doing to see retardation on twitter has greatly improved my input and art has become more or less enjoyable to make again. I can't be upset about losing followers or not doing numbers if I don't even know about those in the first place.