>>85255 I have, in the past. The best case scenario is "yeah, still around, just burnt out and busy or whatever", but more often you just get dead silence. One thing I think a lot of people don't realize is that being an artist sort of inadvertently puts you up on a pedestal, people tend to just assume you're "better" than them because you can draw, and as a result they don't want to cross a boundary or bother you by sending a DM directly just to nose into your personal space. That's just as likely to annoy someone as it is to encourage them, so why take the 50/50? It doesn't take a lot to message someone, but it's still something you have to actively do, and when some artists are kind of weird about interactions and social cues, it might not be worth it to even extend a hand. Plus, no one knows how empty your inbox is and they might worry their message will get lost in a sea of "hello do free request?" and scam messages from people trying to steal your identity, or it just sits in an inbox forever that the person has long since abandoned. This isn't even considering that sometimes it takes people a long time to notice they haven't seen art from you in a while even if they really like your stuff. That's happened to me before, where I only realize I haven't seen new stuff from an artist six months since their last upload, and by that time who knows what's happened? Sorry man. This is a community where greed and entitlement are at an all time high and empathy is at an all time low, and even then the empathetic might just be so busy with their own shit that they don't have time to come send a message to a silent inbox. Sorry the world didn't stop to drag you back in.

>>85255 I personally just don't want to bother people I just assume they're going through some shit and don't want to bother them with empty words

>>85264 You're making a mountain out of a molehill. Refusing an opportunity to talk to someone you admire out of fear that you might waste 30 seconds of your life is just plain retarded.

>Mfers when they find Repulsionswitch https://youtu.be/STq_IkiWxWY?si=6-I72lCVHI116SMB

>>84073 If anyone has the Aru set (second image) I will love you dearly.

Am I tripping or this guy draws both hair and faces the exact same as RepulsionSwitch? https://www.deviantart.com/fiztheancient/gallery/all

>>85609 >inflation fetish You people are just grasping at straws at this point. If you people really think he’s around, what you need to look out for is a style with thicker lines. He abandoned smaller thinner lines in his last days for thicker because his wrist is fucked up and he can’t physically do the smaller lines. Would be hilarious if it WAS him, would be the ultimate irony if he did have an inflation fetish considering the dude is built like an actual twig.

Mellow-laughter art, he got deleted a while ago do any of you have his art saved

Who are you exactly

Thank you

>>84073 This news really ruined my day... They were definitely one of the best artists out there. I think i have saved some of their arta though

>>84073 Far as I'm aware, he's still around on Pixiv, posting as recently as last week. The first post's comments say he doesn't know what happened to his accounts. https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/116434083 At least, I think it's the same guy; their speech and tone of their art look completely different though. So maybe he's back, maybe he isn't.

I remember one of the OGs back in the mid 2000s when I was exploring my tickling fetish. Hahathna who past away in 2008. His DA is still up (https://www.deviantart.com/hahathna) but I vaguely recall stumbling on an archive of all this work. No idea on how to find it if I tried.

I guess since MTJpub is gone now, here are some from a series called Annie The Amateur Pirate.

>>84073 Does anyone have any more of his stuff saved? Doesn't seem like he's going to repost it on his new account.

https://www.deviantart.com/animefakeshots/ Stumbled upon AnimeFakeShots just yesterday, they posted very decent AI anime art. I especially liked how most of these pics were in the style of original shows. They deactivated the account today. There was a post mentioning the fact that they're using an unreleased model to generate art and can't elaborate further due to NDA, so there is a probability they got busted. I hope I'm wrong tho. Managed to save some pics before deactivation, Tsunade being my personal favorite. Gosh I wanna press my face into some pampered milf soles so fucking much.

>>88715 Quite a shame. One of the only AI fetish accounts that was actual quality imo. Hopefully they come back with a new account. On the plus side, the pics are still on DA w/ full quality downloads even though the account is deactivated, so you can still access them if you Google "AnimeFakeShots" and go to images, at least right now.

>>88734 >Diabellstar Holy fucking based

>>88734 Nothing of value was lost...literally.

>>88715 >>88734 Decided to archive as many pics from this account as I could find before they inevitably become inaccessible. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10pcZfVbqCWVonrDQFBpk35LQ1KTQuvfB

>>88875 Much appreciated. Seems like NekoNyanParty got nuked too, can you archive them as well? https://www.deviantart.com/nekonyanparty

>>88878 Aaaaaaand it's gone.

QuintonQuill you would’ve loved hornet💔

>>90609 Damn you're so right. Another day missing them...

here's an interesting question. you can sacrifice a currently active artist to bring another one back from the grave. who are you sacrificing and who are you bringing back?

>>90705 easy, sacrifice caroo for quintonquill

>>90705 Sacrifice Bravojohnny69 for KoochieKoochieToons

>>90620 i was just reading through his most recent journal from five years ago where he said he just 'lost interest' and i don't believe that for a fucking second you don't make all this art and write all this lore for a fictional set of tickling themed islands and then lose interest/never want to post anything ever again at the drop of a hat

>>90714 Eh, I can believe it. I drew (admittedly mid) tickling art when I was younger. Nothing close to the quantity or quality of QQ, but even so, I stopped due to self-created burnout, and just... never started again. I don't even remember the last time I drew something tickling-related. Maybe 2009, 2010? I drew the most when I was young and single and wanted to put my fantasies on the page. As responsibilities arose and other outlets for my fantasies became available, I just felt I'd rather spend my increasingly limited free time on other things. I suspect that's how someone, even a formerly prolific someone, could "lay down the pen". Could still be lurking and checking out others' work, but no longer actively creating or sharing their own. It's a shame, because I absolutely loved SS/QQ's stuff, but I'm grateful that it's pretty much all still available when I want a stroke down memory lane.

>>90713 I'll sacrifice 90% of artists of artists to bring back KoochieKoochie Toon and would especially sacrifice Johnny 1000 times for most reasons. There used to be a lot more good artists but they either disappeared or spiraled downward. It's hard to find good artists who don't paywall there content and even then what we have now is nowhere near what we had before. Someone needs to take initiative and start a new gold age cause I can name the number of good artists left on one hand.

>>90718 I'd sacrifice new Pawfeather for old Pawfeather In fear of going down the 'artists you hate' route who would you say are the good artists right now?

>>90705 Sacrifice master417 for sp0rel0rd

>>90718 You don't just want good artists. You want good artists giving their latest and best stuff for free. I'd say you're a little blinded by nostalgia, the artists who are around at the moment are in many ways more technically skilled than the older ones you used to know. Do they paywall their content? Of course, who doesn't these days. Tell me, who are these artists of old? I may even agree with you on some (RIP Repulsionswitch) as I know certain tastes are subjective but I find it hard to believe that 'the good old days' of tickle fetish art really were a great as you make them out to be and it's a simple case of you getting older and times have changed. Obligatory cute feet image for attention.

>>90720 >inb4 hello Kron! Unironically, Unikran/Monokron/etc. Has he done retard shit, absolutely. Am I in the minority? Most certainly, but in my absolute honest opinion, specifically his newest stuff, it actually feels like art, it's really nostalgic in a way I can't really explain. He also had this sfw alt that I've never even seen mentioned before that had, in my opinion really creative background pieces on it. I wish I had saved some before it got deactivated.