I recently spoke with a long-time creator who has been successfully selling on this platform for years. Overnight, due to sudden policy changes, nearly 90% of his models were suspended. His revenue has been devastated. He told me he feels completely broken, especially with the current global economic situation, high inflation, and rising costs.
As a buyer, I have to ask, How can a company treat the people who literally built its ecosystem this way? These creators didn't just contribute content, they contributed to the platform's growth, reputation, and revenue for years.
Content filters and policy changes like this should have been enforced from the beginning, not applied retroactively after creators have invested years of work and built their catalogs. It feels incredibly reckless and unfair.
The management seems to have shifted focus from supporting art and artists to pure profit maximization. This is evident in how the platform is handling AI-generated content while competitors like RenderHub and ArtStation are actively taking a stand against it. At the same time, frequent sales have trained buyers to wait for discounts instead of regularly supporting artists at full price.
No company survives long-term by stepping on the very people who created its ecosystem. No matter how much money or market power you have, you cannot afford to alienate your core contributors. The creators are the heart of this platform, without them, there is no marketplace.
How ever few of the artist remains unaffected from any site wide changes, their models especially in characters category like Ida faber and Ryanreos remains on top no matter what happens, this and there are some top sellers and artist this platform is deliberately bias towards. Even their newly launched models with fewer views tops the chart for absolutely no reason.
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