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Originally Posted by blackvelvetrpg
If 'transformation' refers to everything(6 billion human clients and growing)
and 'tf" refers to the furry-fetish sub(everything) (the thing most people
call the tf community)
the tf product is near the end of its life cycle.Its about 1/3 what
it was at its peak ( 1999-2000) and about the same level as the
pioneers would have experienced in 1995-1997
One of the pioneer websites no longer with us is this one
http://web.archive.org/web/199904220...w.tf-ring.com/
By 1999 tf-webring was on a proper webring and had about 199 sites
on it.By comparison animal tf webring currently has about 60-70 sites
The Pioneers has the freshness and newness
The Main Phase had money and organization
The Evening Twilight has goodwill and a established customer the late
comers can market to.
Ariana is succeeding because she came in near the end.If she'd come
4-5 years earlier she'd be a small fish in a lake of bigger fish, |
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Originally Posted by Shadow_Dragon
Lol we can only hang on to what remnants lie within our paws and claws (and fins, hooves... you get my drift...). But I fear the most about the tf or 'transformation' fandom to die, or worse yet... Become a monstrosity among all fetishes (Rule of gay donkey and wolf tf sex, no offense to you fans out there).
My only high hope, is that after the summer hits, the numbers will start coming in again because school and college and what not will be done for the year. But then again, just like blackvelvet said, we are becoming smaller and smaller as the years go by.
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Wow...how disheartening, and enlightening.
I never realized there was such a cycle of popularity, nor that there were so many TF sites during that time. I only remember Transfur, The Anime TF site, Ranzab and Lorekeep's collab studio and This site, back when it had the free pictures. Now a days, it's all Transfur, FA, Doc's Lab and occasionally DA (I don't count SoFurry cuz it's usually MM or TG)
I have always assumed that all the popular TF Artists went into hiding in forums like this because of the scrutiny/success/whatever you want to call it, that the internet places on the more raunchy side of the TF community (TG, TF Sex, BE and so forth) and that in order to disavow from such lewdness, they went into hiding to practice their craft without such stigmas attached to them....or at least thats one of the theory I had.
The other being that artist got tired of showing their stuff for free and tried the subscription thing, with various degrees of success...or found jobs.
At least it had nothing to do with the image chans and their dislike of furries (right?)