Also,

Aritsts likely leave this website because it's incredibly unstable. It's also often mean spirited. I've seen:

-Artists paywalled content being targeted, such that discussion about weather or not they should paywall spams every thread their art is posted in

-Artists threads being swarmed with arguments and hateful comments because they paywall

-Artists who refuse a request being "told off," screamed at by the person who wants free artwork

-Artists who refuse requests as a stated in the first post getting tons of people requesting free art and few other comments.

Having spoken to artists, they tend to have some sort of bad experience and then feel unwanted and stop posting. Artists WANT to advertise their works everywhere they can, they WANT to participate in this community, but it's easy to make them feel like we don't want them here. And when a couple common posters do that, they listen. They just stop posting.