Umm...

[scifirenegade]

I post my fanart on AO3 because hey, it's fanwork. When I participate in exchanges I usually offer fanart. Fanart there is still largely ignored, but whatever. We're doing it for the fun of it.

My Doctor Who fanart takes months to get to triple digits, I noticed. Cool. I never expected that. Glad some people were interested. My fanart for other (tiny) fandoms barely get to double digits in general. Again, cool.

And then my The Last Performance piece (the one I posted here yesterday), in one day, is over 200 hits?? I doubt there's this many people clamoring for obscure silent film fanart.

Comments

[liadt]

Who knows!

On a less cheery note I have a fic in a tiny fandom of one that has a stupid number of hits and I can only assume it's a bug or a bot.

[scifirenegade]

Bots do crawl the Archive, so that could be a possibility (and then they press the kudos button repeatedly).

Another thing could be what shivver said, the tags are appealing enough for some people to seek it out, not caring about thw fandom.

[liadt]

That's true, people like to see/read their kinks regardless of fandom. No kudos pushing for my fic, you'll be starting a revolution in fandom for 'The Last Performance'!

[scifirenegade]

Good about the kudos pushing bots. Those are a pain (seen some acquaintances getting those, annoying).

If the art puece makes people watch the film, well I'm glad :D

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I doubt there's this many people clamoring for obscure silent film fanart.

But there should be! <3

I have hits hidden on AO3, and I prefer it that way. And I'm glad you posted your art here, I really like DW as a place to archive fanworks!

[scifirenegade]

I wish :P

I only look at the hits by accident, as I have my dashboard on AO3 bookmarked for quick access to the post page and the bookmarks page. Comments are highly treasured though.

Hey, they were doing it on the LJ, it shall be done here as well :D

[shivver]

I expect it's because of the rating and the tags you put on the piece. People look for art of specific things, regardless of subject or fandom, and violence, blood, and suicide are definitely some of those things.

I'm not sure that the piece really required that rating or those tags, especially the "Graphic Depictions of Violence" warning. While you do have him holding the knife in his gut, I don't know that it'd be considered "graphic". This film doesn't sound like one that would get an R or higher rating, so if that's all they showed on-screen (single stab, blood on the clothing), I'd think your art doesn't need an M rating or a warning.

On the other hand, that might be an American attitude - movies here with tons of people getting slaughtered bloodily gets an R rating, but show a little bit of upper thigh skin and that's definitely R, and any more gets NC-17. :P

[scifirenegade]

That might be it. Either that or bots.

I tried searching for the film's original "rating", got nothing. But that's pretty much what happened: some blood (the stabbing is seen from behind though). I brought down the rating.

Yeah, American ratings :P