>>33358What I suspect will happen in the future is that themore heavy fanart projects will come from collaborative projects (I assume) focusin around communities such as this (inflation/bbw/deviant art.)
Early on when there were only a few bbw artists the art was free and of a notably higher quality. Things changed drastically by at least 2010. There have been enough succesful artists online to make it enticing with these days the numbers being in the hundreds of thousands of artists online. There has been bullying online and offline, there have been unfair changes that were made to most of the popular platforms that were not in favor of the actual artists (or of human rights, quite francly) and more in favor of commercialism and good optics probably for advertisement vendor concerns, and the list goes on and I have not mentioned the quality of the bbw art.
When progress is slow nobody is happy, but when progress is fast everybody loses. Most that know enough about business or have been around long enough know to save their money and wait for the next big thing. It is a parasitic relationship for some, for others it is tied to political movements behind the scenes. bbw-chan's here for the art and the bbw love, but there are many humans on the internet who hate the very idea of human rights. Your question has many answers.