this is a thing and it's amazing

and your icon XD

fucking FURRIES

De nada :D

oooo weee

Omg. This is great rofl.

Though I always wonder what popufur-haters are gonna do when they themselves are popufur.

Hate themselves << -coughs-

That's me, rofl
(Well, I'm not exactly popufur yet, but yeah)

metoofmlthe deeper i go the more i hate it.

I'd twiddle my thumbs and ponder on what to do because I didn't plan for that eventuality.

I love you so much

Yep

yep

Isn't that the weird eel ball from Star Wars Ep 3?

probably, this series takes a lot of refs XD

lol

holy shit XD
this is like me everyday

You better be getting schwifty Jak :V

I hope I don't become one of them. I have beef with a lot of them and lots of times it's for stupid reasons. Only a few are nice but most of them are usually douchbags

Ahaha perfect XD
I'm torn between both wanting and fearing that status, but I don't think I have enough charisma and energy for it anyhow so :P

its not all its cracked up to be. However the ones that revel in it are... well... the 'real' ones that hold that status with the negative connotations.

for the rest of us? just makes us withdraw from people :|

Yeah I suppose so. It'd just be nice to be recognized every once in a while-- It's my own fault (I don't advertise, I post very infrequently, and the content itself isn't really what most FA users go to see) but eh. If it weren't for wanting to keep in touch with the people here and see the lovely arts, I'd probably just delete my account entirely, since kind of the whole idea of having a gallery is to showcase your work and/or sell it, and if I'm not actively selling and no one wants to see it what's even the point.

I get up or down about it often myself, but for different reasons. I used to want to be recognized, Now most days I wish i could go back to not being, but at the same time that would hurt me too much. what I love became my business and because of it i've forgotten what I love and why I loved it. Made me really resent becoming known since now I don't create things like I used to.

I most certainly used to love what little attention I got, however now I wish I didn't get it, the words have been cheapend from overuse.... I get it enough every day that I try and hide what I am just to get treated like a normal person again sometimes. I used to be some one not very good, striving to get better for reasons that were for myself. Rather than some lord set up here on a pedistool that I don't want to be on all by myself hating everyone that trys to reach their hands up here cus most the time their's just after piece of what I've got -_-

I'll refer to this: http://jakthedrox.tumblr.com/post/6.....-november-2013

it explains it best.

That makes sense... I suppose you could always have another 'personal only for me work' account, but I guess it only works if you have the time for it, and if you're making a living from commissions that might be pretty difficult.
And if the attention gets overwhelming, you could also disable comments? But that's also a pretty 'on' or 'off' thing, and if you want some attention but not a lot it doesn't work either. So yeah, I understand it's probably pretty polarizing, like you can either have all the attention or none of it, not anything in-between. It's probably also why most artists' friend groups are....only other artists, lol, because they understand the most and probably won't try to take advantage of you or your status (Though I do worry about if they're secretly judging/comparing my work....a lot)

As for me, I'm trying, but... it almost feels like if I did everything right and really put myself out there and it failed, it would be way more painful than just doing what I'm doing now. I had "talent" really early on in life and grew up with classmates and people being like 'wow you're so good, did you draw that?' and being known for it in school, and like...it being the only thing I was actually good at, so I kind of unconsciously based the entirety of my self-worth on it and I'm having a rough journey un-learning that now. But now that I'm an adult it just feels like....I'm almost ashamed to say I've been doing art that long, because it doesn't feel like my work reflects it. Just went through and aggressively spring-cleaned my gallery for that reason haha.

Well I'll tell you this. From what I've seen of your stuff theres no way if you started making art every day and posting stuff every couple days or a week, you'ed have no problem getting more notice. The fear of failure is to be muted. Considering some of the trash I've seen that gets plenty of attention.

For the most part though I keep comments open because I don't want to be that asshole, Also because the rare bit of feedback I do get sometimes is motivating enough for me to keep going and figure out What I like doing that other people like seeing so I can get the best of both worlds in my own way.

Ahh, thank you, I appreciate it. I actually am doing a daily drawblog on Tumblr, I just need to post more here I think. Mostly just hung up on how 'finished' it looks, since the daily stuff is usually made in an hour or two and is pretty sketchy, so I always end up only posting to Tumblr and then going 'Should I put this on FA too?.....Nah, not finished enough' :P I should probably work on that.
Also oh my god, I'm sorry for like...telling you my life story or whatever haha, I was actually feeling artificially down because I'd had to go without medication for a day so the negative thoughts were like a fricken faucet and I couldn't turn it off omg.

I hope you can find that balance okay! There was a good thing that  GatoGato posted the other day in a journal that made me think a lot about what direction I wanted to go with art and what I really would like to see in my own, lemme see if I can find it...
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7446399/
It's supposed to be a self-esteem boost but it made me get inspired about techniques and style instead lol

I love the subtle details in this...

credit goes to Ramos XD

I've been in this community for 4 years now(counting my old account) and I have never heard of a popufur. What is a popufur?

That's a good question I'm not fit to answer.

a popufur is a popular furry artist on here, really those who get the fame and ass kissers on this site that just buy there art for the name and people suck up to them because they are popular, alot of them are assholes. trust me i know my friend became one and now shes a dick.

I thought it was people that have a bad personality who don't create anything but only order commissions of their fursona(s) just to look good and appealing... or is there another term for that?

I met one that was rather demanding me to do this or that in exact otherwise they throw bit of a fit... another chewed my head off after I asked them a simple question, and their excuse was "someone else was pissing me off"... not a good excuse after belittling me followed by calling me a retard and I should kill myself. I don't even remember what the question was anymore, but how they responded wasn't justified in any way. A simple "No" would've been just fine.

those are call attention whores and crybabies.

oh... thought there was a more specific name for those types but alright, fair enough. x.x

Some people view a popufur as a furry artist or commissioner who got popular... let it go to their head... and then became an insufferable prick.

Of course though some people will use it whether the person is good or bad as long as they are popular anyways and use it as just a general insult towards anyone they deem to be too popular

The important thing is that not all popufurs ar bad

^ this

Furcadia has a dream called Rick Sanchez and the description is "LOOK AT ALL THE FURRIES MORTY"

Crawling in my skiiiiiinnnnn
These pageviews they will not heaaaallllll

PFFT

I hate them too.

I concur with the slightly crazy silver haired scientist

If ever I become an arrogant, unpleasant popufur. I want Jakkal to grassy noll me and spread all of my embarassing secrets on tumblr.