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Unprecedented artist entitlement! Wow! Actually we live in an era where most sites try to exploit creators by offering them work 'for exposure' instead of for money, where companies 'monetize' their creative fanbase instead of paying them, where everyone expects artists to work for free because it's 'not real work'. Now, compare this to any other point in time and you'll see that artists then worked overwhelmingly by patronage, usually creating portraits and commissioned works, and that there were A LOT FEWER ARTISTS.

Again: If you're doing work, and people are enjoying it, you deserve to be paid for it, even if someone else thinks it's amateurish. If that person thinks it's so easy then obviously it's a good opportunity for them to cash in on this supposedly lucrative market that they're obviously so well-equipped to take advantage of. Feel free to characterize it as greed, but you know people need to actually like pay rent and stuff right?

I can't speak with precision about the culture behind pixiv, but are you sure that it's a free and purely artistic as you think? Or do you just think that because you can't speak Japanese?