Massive popularity? How are these numbers possible?

*Philliewig Aug 14, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

So just to clarify before I start, I'm not angry, bitter, being ungrateful or anything like that. Just curious.

I've been browsing through the most popular traditional art in the past 24 hours, and I've noticed that there are pieces that had been uploaded just under a day ago, and already have thousands of views, faves and comments. When looking at the artist's profiles, they all have upwards of a million pageviews O.o

A lot of those pieces aren't in that many groups, which is how I whore my art out there. How are these guys so popular? Is it cause of community involvement? Really good marketing? Something else?

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*dolphinwing Aug 18, 2012 Professional Artisan Crafter

Seems like it's a combination of having good work, having a good number of watchers, something that appeals to most people like fanart, and I also feel that luck matters in getting your first front-page submission. You have to upload at the right time for maximum views in the first few hours.

~rapperfree Aug 18, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

i've also been seeing art which gets thousands of views but are crap. then i see good art then they only get a few. i think it's really unfair. especially when I compare my art with some, i feel like I deserve more than just a couple hundred views. anyway, life is unfair

*Philliewig Aug 18, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

I'm really seeing that is all depends on how well you 'whore' your stuff out.

~rapperfree Aug 18, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

yeah. it's fucked up, isn't it? XD

*Philliewig Aug 18, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Pretty muchxP

~rapperfree Aug 18, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

~alzang676 Aug 15, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I'm just going to say they have good art.
It's obviously the reason they have 1 or 2 million+ pageviews.
It can't be the length of time you have been on DA, including another older account I lost track of I've been on DA for 9 years.
Yet i'm ALMOST at 2k views.

~Silver-MoonNight Aug 15, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

They have thousands of watchers. Once they get favourite from their watchers which have their work ended up on popular page. People who have their page set 24 hours Popular page will view those artworks. Thus, the artist might gain more new watchers from there. That's how they have millions of pageviews, thousands of faves and etc.

~DTKinetic Aug 14, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Groups don't really tend to help that much unless you're an admin or I'm just always in the wrong groups

The 3 things I think that make these people popular are:
1) High Quality Work, which gets them DDs, which gets them features, and then even gets shared on other major sites like Facebook or Twitter, Flickr, etc. From what I hear having those connections like your own blog can really spike views.
2) Promoting fan-art, which a lot of the mainstream people will search for ex. Pokemon, Sonic, Naruto, celebrities, kittens, memes, etc.
3) Dedicating your life to Deviantart. I have 3,185 comments, and 5,688 forum posts. I get on DA about 1-2 hours a day, some days maybe a little more, and comment on a few pieces of work a day, give or take. And yet, Unimaginably I see people like :^3wyl: with six-digit comments and forum posts. I have no idea how that's even possible unless you're on day-in and day-out, browsing nonstop and adding a comment on every page you come to

*Starlit-Sorceress Aug 14, 2012 Professional Artisan Crafter

From what I can tell, the best way to get more watchers is to get the message out to your casual visitors that if they watch you, they'll get lots more of the same.

When I visit someone's gallery, and I only like one or two pieces, I'll just fave them and leave. If I see lots of random deviations that aren't related to their specialty (example: "Look, it's a photo of my cat!") then I'll run! I don't want that stuff in my inbox. But if most of their gallery is focused on one topic, and I find a decent number of pieces I like, I'll watch them.

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