🦊 Furry Closed Species - Pay $500 to draw a bedazzled fox

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harbleglarb said:
what a shame, i think the base design for these ones is genuinely cool. but they're another one caught up in the closed species bullshit (and becoming over-designed messes with eye-burning color palettes).
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It's all filler and no content, some of the designs are interesting, but given the complexity of most of them, have fun paying out the ass even more so for someone to actually do it.

PootisMan said:
I think some furfags have a fetish for pastel colors for some reason.
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Probably something to do with rave & gay culture, and a form of peacocking to be the center of attention by being an eyesore to look at.
 
Damn Furfag said:
It's all filler and no content, some of the designs are interesting, but given the complexity of most of them, have fun paying out the ass even more so for someone to actually do it.



Probably something to do with rave & gay culture, and a form of peacocking to be the center of attention by being an eyesore to look at.
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Don't forget the A E S T H E T I C S fad.
 
Well, the comments on the site I found this on said it was a closed species, but I'm unsure about this one.

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I find this whole Closed Species thing to be especially saddening. It's obvious that many artists featured here are extremely talented, yet they choose to use arbitrary notions of artificial scarcity to create what amounts to an autistic mean girls mafia. When I was younger, I thought the idea of artists - amateur artists, weeaboos and fanboys - not the muddy, patronizing kiwi bullshit that my primary school, the books i read, and pretty much everybody I knew thought constituted art - creating an insular community online that was elaborate enough to have commerce and conflict, was downright exotic to me.

I felt that just by virtue of knowing this existed that I was part of a secret club. But now, as i'm older, that secret club isn't secret any more. You can thank tumblr and twitter for that.

And when the people that belong to them still think they're secret, they begin to think they can use their web cred to push others around with petty drama. Not long after, Deviantart was no longer the countercultural, bohemian paradise I thought it was, but merely a macrocosm of what I saw around me at primary school, if only far worse. The people who were in the scene moved on. Those who didn't are reliving their high school days, but now they're the alpha bitch. Woe betide the giddy tweens who think they're going to get the same online secret club experience as I did.

The magic of excitedly making OCs that only people on the internet knew about, the frenzied feeling of specialness from belonging to a culture so like and unlike one's own at the same time has long gone. And among the dessicated husks of what remains, Closed Species are perhaps the most odious cadaver, lying side by side with Gacha Life. For Open Species are to Closed Species what the Fanime of 2010's youtube is to Gacha Life.
 
DungeonMaster said:
Those who didn't are reliving their high school days, but now they're the alpha bitch.
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Holy shit. You hit that nail directly on the head. Nearly every single art community I've been a part of over the years has devolved into this bitchy, mean girl hierarchy and the closed species community I feel is one of the biggest exhibitors of this sort of attitude. What makes me moti about it is that these bitches expect you to pay hundreds or thousands for shitty autistic doodles and be grateful that you were able to even afford their ridiculous prices like the peons you are.
 
Coelacanth said:
Holy shit. You hit that nail directly on the head. Nearly every single art community I've been a part of over the years has devolved into this bitchy, mean girl hierarchy and the closed species community I feel is one of the biggest exhibitors of this sort of attitude. What makes me moti about it is that these bitches expect you to pay hundreds or thousands for shitty autistic doodles and be grateful that you were able to even afford their ridiculous prices like the peons you are.
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When I discovered DeviantArt at the age of nine I was mesmerized by the very concept of art trades and commissions. Before that, art was something lofty and distant, like the Catholic Church commissioning Michaelangelo to paint them something.

DeviantArt sounded like something I, a talentless fanboy with an excitable imagination, could feel at home among other excitable stickman-loving fanboys.

It was small scale commerce. A friendly little village where you could pay five dollars for a doodle, or an MS paint doodle in exchange for another.

Nobody, and I say nobody I knew IRL liked drawing.

I remember getting fanart of my OCs when I was nine on Scratch. Holy shit, I was jumping up and down in pure ecstasy. Little did I know that that cocaine rush of online validation was the very same thing that would drive artists a decade hence to emotional ruin and great narcissism.

The secret club mentality is a tantalizing thing when you're a child. There is nothing better than online prestige, to be honoured for your creations. But as this thread would indicate - this mentality has disastrous consequences on those who don't outgrow it. And there's the realization that I could have ended up like this if I had tried to relive my old experiences, albeit with more social status. It's like being God and watching one third of your angels become demons.

I have a gut feeling that all the ills of the internet link back to the secret club mentality. Once it brought light and creativity to the old web communities, and now it is the banal driver of the culture wars.
 
I almost get the appeal of closing a species where you can arbitrarily mark your sparkledogs as "rare". Autists love to collect that shit, it's like printing your own line of Pokémon cards.

What I don't get is the over-representation of food as body parts. If there's any part of this that's a fetish, I swear, it has to be that.

PootisMan said:
I think some furfags have a fetish for pastel colors for some reason.
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You can blame MLP for that, I think.
 
Coelacanth said:
Holy shit. You hit that nail directly on the head. Nearly every single art community I've been a part of over the years has devolved into this bitchy, mean girl hierarchy and the closed species community I feel is one of the biggest exhibitors of this sort of attitude. What makes me moti about it is that these bitches expect you to pay hundreds or thousands for shitty autistic doodles and be grateful that you were able to even afford their ridiculous prices like the peons you are.
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That's why i just draw my own stuff for fun and avoid art communities like the plague. Cause i can't stand people that haven't grown out of there middle school clicky mean girl phase. Pulse there always filled with drama.
I just want to make OCs damn it. (:_(
Coffee Shits said:
I almost get the appeal of closing a species where you can arbitrarily mark your sparkledogs as "rare". Autists love to collect that shit, it's like printing your own line of Pokémon cards.

What I don't get is the over-representation of food as body parts. If there's any part of this that's a fetish, I swear, it has to be that.


You can blame MLP for that, I think.
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My best guess why food as body parts is popular is because...

A: Food is easy inspiration. There's a lot of different types of foods,fruits and drinks in the world so mix that with a animal,monsters or mythical creature of your choice and voila, you got your self a nice looking OC that you sell on Deviantart for 100 bucks .

And B: It's cute.Cause who doesn't want a bunny that looks like a piece of strawberry short cake( same-
thing applies to pastel color schemes ).

But then again furrys are into a lot of weird shit. So it wouldn't surprise me if the food as body parts trend is some weird vore thing that i don't know about.

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Coffee Shits said:
I almost get the appeal of closing a species where you can arbitrarily mark your sparkledogs as "rare". Autists love to collect that shit, it's like printing your own line of Pokémon cards.

What I don't get is the over-representation of food as body parts. If there's any part of this that's a fetish, I swear, it has to be that.


You can blame MLP for that, I think.
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Didn’t the first show had better colors?
 
PootisMan said:
Didn’t the first show had better colors?
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No idea about the first few generations. I've only seen the candy-colored ones when MLP got big and everyone seemed to get their own character in that style.
 
LurkerDog said:
Im surprised no one has mentioned CCCats here yet. A DA species that was very popular a couple years back with CCCat adopts (with only one piece of art) ranging into around 700s. Though, recently checking, it seems they caved in on themselves and are starting to only go for a few hundred. Still a lot, but interesting. What kinda sucks when it comes to grabbing their individual prices is that the adopts posted typically have the amount removed once purchased. Occasionally you can find a mention of a $500 buyout or see some unhidden bids, or they'll forget to wipe the amount (most recent went for $350). These things used to only go for $50-80 as an FYI.

View attachment 1349916AB at $1000. Looks like it only got up to $490.
View attachment 1349922 $450.
View attachment 1349924 $420
View attachment 1349926 $400
View attachment 1349940 Both AB'd at $200 ea.
View attachment 1349959 $500.
View attachment 1349968 all for around $250 ea.
View attachment 1349969 $250 ea.
Maybe its just me but I don't think you could find many artists to draw these designs 100% perfectly.

Edit: I forgot that most of these fucking things cant be resold! Meaning you HAVE to trade the fuckers for others and will likely never get your money back! :)
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Have a feeling that the kind of person who would drop a grand on a CCCat tends to be about as pretty as one.
 
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