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>>But I do! I'm an artist. I make art for my own enjoyment all the time, that I do not share with GuroChan or anywhere else. There's a few different reasons for that, but one of the bigger ones is that people like you seem to have no respect for artists and so I both don't see the worth in sharing with people who don't respect what I do and also don't see how it could be worth my while in a monetary sense to try and market to a community loaded with thieves and freeloaders. The negatives don't outweigh the positives, from my perspective. It makes more sense to just do it for myself and people like you won't ever know what you're missing.

I don't get your point because if you have no desire to sell your art then what are those reasons why you do not post it?
You won't get paid for it either way so what are those negatives?
I think that not posting something that you made is plain idiocy because you are missing a lot on the comments that people will make about your work which is no less enjoyable than making it.

In fact, most pirates work for the same payment they buy and post all that work just to get those comments and see how other people enjoy their work.

Maybe you are complaining about sites who collect all that art and make money on it? but If your work is already available for free you can consider it just as an extra host because nobody will come there to get something that is free anyway. and if you see some other community which is sharing your work you can just come here and say "Hi, I made all that's stuff. " and it will become all yours.

>>Sure, you can't lose what you never had, and can't ever get. But also, you just won't know how many artists might feel like me.

There are plenty of artists who stop posting for various reasons and it is hard to know why. Pixiv is full of great artists who produced many pictures but then stopped posting them.
But in this situation, I see no relationship to piracy. If someone is posting behind a paywall I don't know anything about what they made, I do not even know the names unless their work leaks out.
So I can't wonder why they stopped posting neither I care what they post.

If artist posts for free and I have to access to their works I usually do not repost them elsewhere if they request so. but if artist stops posting new stuff I see that as the end of his carrier and transfer of all his work onto free public domain it is not like you can lose anything at that point and it would be a waste if all that stuff just disappears.

>>Ever wonder what happened to an artist who just seems to have stopped making new work? Maybe that's one of them.

I think this is a very tiny minority who feel like that and it is plain stupid anyway. Most guro artists I know not only do not object to their work being shared they do not even object if you take authorship of their work because they want to hide their identities.