Art Site - Battle Royale
Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey. We will once and for all determine whish website is the best for artists to upload art to. It will be a bloody battle that may end up with a bomb-collar going off.
Go watch Battle Royale if you don't get the reference.

This has always been a question in the back of my mind. What I expect to have answered is... 
  1. What websites do artists post to?
  2. What websites do non-artists use to view art?
  3. What single website would artists and non-artists use and why?
  4. Is there any beneficial reason for using one type of website (social media or art-folio) over the other?
  5. Is there a difference between artists who draw anime, furry and/or NSFW art?

UPDATE 1 - 100 participants! A summary of the data has been created below. Telegram and I don't use [blank] has been added to questions.
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As of writing this, 154 participants have taken my survey. 34% are non-artists and 66% are artists with a mix of 24% being anime artists and 86% being furry artists.
I will admit that this survey has a NSFW furry artist bias as that is the demographic I was able to easily provide the survey to. I posted the survey to Furaffinity, Discord and Twitter. In an attempt to diversify, I had the survey up on 4chan’s /e/ and /h/ boards for 2 days.

A spreadsheet of the data used can be found within this google sheet under the *Compiled Data* tab: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cWcz_PXjWzbG23eQ-kstX_szLU407Jnhqonm-wEM-ho/edit#gid=1194041175 
Both non-artists and artists frequently used Furaffinity, Discord and Twitter.
Non-artists preferred using Artstation, e621, Booru sites, Inkbunny, Pixiv, Reddit and Rule34 2-3 times more compared to artists.
  • I speculate that Booru sites, e621 and Rule34 were frequently used by non-artists to find an artist’s complete gallery within one place. The ability for anyone to contribute to any artist’s gallery means that non-artists can bypass the artist practice of selectively uploading different art to multiple sites, including sites with paywalls.
    Here are a few cited comments…
    ▪ e621 - “It allows me to see most of the artist's work, often especially work the artist may have deleted from their other galleries since it's mostly user curated. It's a downer to see an artist arbitrarily delete art I enjoy, even though I'm aware they might have good reasons for doing so."
    ▪ booru sites - “The default filter is great, huge image gallery”
    ▪ e621 - “Easy navigation and searchable artists and other tags.”
    ▪ e621 - “Furries make the best porn”

  • Inkbunny maybe a worthwhile site for furry artists to join, if they don’t mind various controversies involving cub art.
    However, users of Inkbunny can flip the script on Furaffinity…
    ▪ non-artist - “Furaffinity scandals made most of my favorite artists leave, Inkbunny actually has a working tagging system and a blacklist.”
    ▪ non-artist - “it's a gallery site with a functional tagging and blacklisting system”
    ▪ artist - “Great tagging and blacklisting system + next to no limitations on what can be posted”

  • Most non-artists preferred art-folio sites overall with 49% of them saying they consistently discover new art and artists to follow through art-folio sites. A devoted artwork gallery, tagging system and new art updates (subscriptions) were their top desired features. This can be seen in the previous quotes.
Artists preferred using social media over art-folio sites compared to non-artists. Bluesky and Twitter were used about ¼ times more by artists.
  • It is possible that artists prefer using social media because of the ability to share content (reblogs): 49% of artists desired the reblog feature over 20% of non-artists.
  • Another reason could be due to instant gratification, feeling as if they get more likes, favorites and comments. As one user put it, “Random, viral discoverability”
Furry Artists Top 3 Art-folio Sites
  • Furaffinty
  • e621
  • Deviantart
Anime Artist Top 3 Art-folio Sites
  • Pixiv
  • Personal Website
  • Deviantart
Both Artists Top 3 Social Media Sites
  • Twitter
  • Discord
  • Bluesky

*I did not count Furaffinity in the anime artist’s top 3 as the site is predominately furry art.
BONUS

A question of why Furaffinity and Twitter reign supreme? Going through comments of non-artists and artists, there is a growing concern of whether or not a site deserves its user base. A few things I saw was that people are forced onto the site because that’s where everyone is and not because the site is actually good.
  • furaffinity / non-artist - “I'd prefer a more functional website like Inkbunny, but furaffinity has far more artists”
  • furaffinity / non-artist - “It's where the artists are”
  • furaffinity / artist - “It's the most steady furry option, simple-as.”
  • twitter / artist - “It's unfortunately the best for reaching an audience.”
  • twitter / artist - “biggest audience potential, nothing else is close”
  • twitter / non-artist - “Because most artists I follow aren't on Bluesky or Mastodon”
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