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.

[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!

[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