oaf40

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DRLa said:
So how's everyone liking the balance_2026 contest so far?

I've had quite saddening experience so far :D Usually I don't check out other creators' works but this time something made me open the list of entries. Don't get me wrong - they're wonderful, it just feels like my destiny is to be trapped in the sub-200-faves range forever, and it makes me sad.

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oaf40

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In response to blip #67

Actually this is related to another thing that's been crushing me lately. I feel like I'm the least favored otter creator on the entire site, for example my project post #63778 takes 23 months to reach 451 faves, and post #180034 took just a week to surpass me. I've been trying various scenes for 2+ years and I've never reached the 500 faves mark like a recent post #178052 did.

An artistic project post #170008 is rated less than its knockoff inspired remix post #172719 , how come?
Bro didn't even care about removing the hallucinated text from the camera ^
Same with post #172870 vs post #179424
Even their recent simple SFW post #181141 has already left my complex contest entry in dust

This kills absolutely any motivation to create because you just know it'll never truly take off. I'm genuinely interested in asking people what they find so unappealing about my projects. But I must come up with words that won't make me sound whiny (like now, perhaps)

In response to blip #67

Kind of in a similar situation as well. My NSFW entry that I posted more than two weeks ago has not even reached 40 faves, and it's an image that I have planned for months and got a chance to do it for this contest. Not sure if it's because I wasn't the first one to do a yin yang concept or that I wasn't the first to do a high-angle view of a 69 sex position.

post #178976

As for my other posts, I don't even expect them to reach 100 upvotes nor 100 faves for a long time or at all. As much as I like to do concept images, whether SFW or NSFW, sometimes, my dopamine gets hit so hard that I have to do "human on feral" content just to stabilize it.

It's not only you who has this issue.