This deserves to be answered, so I’m going to post it:

The short answer? Probably not.

It’s kind of sad. I remember staying up for hours having this giant list of like 100+ different blogs that I would always look at and have on the ready. Always thinking about which one to do next. I had a lot of hopes for this blog, and was so disappointed for how things turned out in the end.

But the reasons why are a bit different than what you might think.

1. So first off: This is something that I’m sure you guys can guess. Basically what happened was that I was never able to draw myself, but when I created this blog in order to help artists gain some followers (I used to have a lot of respect for people like that) I had someone who agreed to work with me who was an artist who would draw up the posts when I needed. They then eventually jumped ship on me randomly.

After that, I kept trying to find new people, and I went through A LOT. About 10 different people in total never even made a single post. They would agree to help me (since the blog seemed like a good cause), I would ask them for just a simple picture, and they would wait a long time until the day of and immediately tell me “Nah, I changed my mind.”

Anyone who did actually agree to work with me was short lived at best. I’ve been trying to teach myself how to draw on my own but that’s taken a while and with me trying to juggle three degrees, it’s not a whole lot of time to practice (and I haven’t even begun to learn how to draw digitally). So yeah, there’s that.

Since then, and having to deal with people, I’ve lost a lot of respect for ‘artists’ over the years.

2. Second thing that happened: Somebody basically jacked by idea. It sucked, but yeah I had always taken hours to think out and write out these long posts, and I tried not to spam blogs cause I had hoped people would actually look at the blogs I was talking about and not just ignore them. It could have been easy to just spam links to blogs, but I wanted people to not get used to that and it turn into a sort of ‘white noise’ on someone’s dashboard.

I never got hardly any followers, and the people I did things for half the time wouldn’t even reblog the post I did about them. So they took the benefit (and the purpose) of this blog which was to send them more followers, but they never returned the favor by reblogging and sending some followers back to help others down the road.

Then somebody else does a blog with basically the same concept but with posts about as long as Twitter comments (and about as well written). Some Tracy Flash person. I don’t know, but their main blog had more followers so when they used the same idea they had more people starting out and, you know the saying, “The rich get richer”.

Tried talking to them once to wish them luck. They were a dick. So I stopped. Which brings me to the next point….

3. Finally, there’s the third thing: Tumblr. This is two-fold. One, MLP blogs are kind of dead now. Well not so much dead, but definitely comatose in some hospital bed somewhere. It used to be really cool with TONS of new blogs all the time, and so much cool stuff to look at. But the stream of new and exciting blogs has become a slow trickle from the faucet, and the show’s fandom has kind of fluttered away (ha, get it?).

Then there’s the problem with Tumblr itself. The site is basically an SJW killzone. Say something someone doesn’t agree with (politically or socially), and prepare to get flamed a thousand times till you’re burnt to a crisp.

I guess that it then, huh? Kind of sucks. I still remember hoping to help everyone get all the followers I had (at the time anyways) thought everyone deserved. People were only getting popular because of luck or knowing someone else who was popular, and that kind of made people depressed. I really wanted to fix that, and wanted to make people happy and encourage them to keep drawing.

What’s really funny? This was another long post I put a lot of thought into writing, and I bet no one will see it, or reblog it, or care. It’ll just get buried like all my others under the mountain of stuff on someone’s dashboard. I wonder what it’ll be sandwiched between? Knowing my luck? Probably between automatically reblogged posts of a gif and one of the thousands of random blogs I had actually once wanted to help.

See You, Space Cowboys. And Stay Dandy.