Юни,ты лучший или . Лучшая!!! ____ Yuni, you are the best or . The best!!!
Спасибо большое за признание! Это для меня большая честь. Я всегда стараюсь делать все возможное, чтобы сделать свои работы максимально качественными и интересными, и, похоже, это приносит результат. ____ Thank you very much for the recognition! This is a great honor for me. I always try to do everything possible to make my works as high-quality and interesting as possible, and it seems that this is bringing results.
its a cute and care free pose and picture, almost like she was just doing it all day until someone took the picture, lovelying upscaled to see it's beauty. I luckly saved all the pictures of the set and may uploaded to archive.org so others see them.
I used to think that your pictures overaggregate the abilities of human body, but the more I see such photos, the more I understand that I really underestimate real life...
It's amazing to see what fantastic things people can do in the real world, but most of my artworks are indeed exaggerated and sometimes feature incorrect anatomy for the sake of more extreme positions - this is intentional as I don't want them to seem achievable in reality.
❤️❤️❤️ muy hermosa ❤️❤️❤️ ____ very beautiful
Gracias por tus amables palabras. Es un placer compartir algo tan hermoso con alguien más! 🥰 ____ Thank you for your kind words. It's a pleasure to share something beautiful with someone else!
I live on a mountain in the middle of a desert. Even thousands of feet in the air, there's still natural springs that constantly flow and make creeks that eventually turn into little waterfalls when they hit a cliff. It's like the neverending water features in a Zelda game. I look down and see nothing but sand and scrub brush, but it's shockingly green and lush up here most of the time. This pic really reminds me of a specific place up here where one of the fountainheads comes up from the ground and it is super lush all around it. This is really calming, and I love the painterly style of it.
Somehow it brings joy thinking that this image might be connected to something real beyond my imagination. I've been living in the same room for over three decades, only stepping out once a week to buy food, even though I don't have any valid reasons, physical or mental limitations - just feelings of total disinterest in every aspect of this world. Not some puny "depression" - the favored label of money-greedy charlatans - but a profound inability to see a single reason why this whole reality exists in the first place. But somehow it always brings joy when others are able to appreciate beauty that eludes me.
Yuni, on the one hand, you are right, of course. Especially since this will require technical changes to the site.
But on the other hand, it can be much more difficult to systematize a large amount of material than to create a Yunipedia section and add new subsections and articles to it one by one (as needed).
For example, if you have materials about L'amouriel, it is much easier to immediately create a "Yunia/Pantheon/L'amouriel" subsection (or hierarchical tags) and collect materials there too, than to display them only in the main timeline, where you yourself can lose them over time.
I mean, I accidentally found a page about the god L'amouriel when I was looking for pictures of archers. And now I would like to read the texts and look at images of other gods, but I just don't know if there is any information on this topic on the site or not yet.
It would be easier for you yourself when all new materials are added in a systematic way. And you can always refresh your memory with the necessary information.
For the development of a new world, the online encyclopedia format is much more suitable than a blog. At the same time, the main blog can continue to display absolutely all new works, regardless of whether they are related to the Yunia project or not. Sasha M
PS Thank you very much for continuing to improve the site! Sorting by year and best pictures of the year is a very nice and convenient addition.
Thank you very much for your feedback and suggestions!
I agree with you that the current structure of the site can sometimes be confusing and it's often hard to find a specific post, while older posts tend to vanish into oblivion.
I've considered making a wiki-like system many times, but every time it's very hard to think of the structure. I remember the last time I tried dividing Yunia to kingdoms and describing each of them, it ended up being a lot of information, and as usual I got the impression that nobody was impressed... XD
So I'm still on the way to find the right structure that would be helpful instead of feeling unnecessary...
Yuni, I don't think this commenter wanted to offend you. I hope he/she didn't. It's just that people who aren't creative don't always understand how much imagination, effort and time it takes to create something truly original, special and unusual.
Also, not all people are good at expressing their thoughts. I often screw up too, so I'll try to formulate my question very carefully and thoroughly:
Is there anything I can personally do to prevent you from "gradually deleting" your old classic super kinky/extreme works, but rather to encourage you to "gradually bring back" the old ones and publish new ones?
I'm sure Shifty and your other regular viewers and commenters would also be happy to know how they can help.
PS I thought you were deleting some kinky pictures because of self-censorship or because you yourself haven't been very interested in making sex/kinky pictures in recent years. But I never thought you were deleting them because of lack of interest. Look, super hot picture of Yasha and Andrzej ( yuni.us/the-unseen-footage ) has more comments than most others and is still at the top of views. And some of the comments on this picture are very cute and passionate, in my opinion.
PPS I understand you don't have enough time and energy to answer all the comments, but I really, really hope you answer this one!
Thank you very much for your kind words and helpful suggestions. I really appreciate them! It's true that sometimes people can be misunderstood or taken the wrong way, so it's important to clarify things...
I'm glad you've noticed how much people enjoy certain images, like The Unseen Footage... It shows me that there is a demand for such works, which encourages me to continue creating them ;D
Regarding your question about what you can do to prevent me from deleting my old classic super kinky/extreme works, but rather encourage me to gradually bring back the old ones and publish new ones... I think it's great that you're asking this. It shows a genuine interest in my work and a desire to support me. Next time I'm about to delete something, I'll try to remember your question and think about it before doing so. Your support means a lot to me! Even if I can't always control my feelings and emotions while dealing with negative comments from jerks...
besides all the good stuff thats already been said i think its a shame that you kinda moved from the more extreme kink stuff towards the tamer content you do now
To understand that you have to ask yourself why I might have started making anything extreme in the past. I did that because it was interesting and there were people who actually liked it back in the dark prehistoric times, so it was fun to make.
In the recent years, I've tried many times to keep sharing something interesting and extreme and every single time everyone simply ignores it, turning their noses like it's some smelly shit. The only shame is accusations like this - assumptions that I must sit there for hours a day, making some free extreme art for you while you don't need to move a finger other than 1click to open and close my webpage. Beautiful life, keep it up!
So if you lose something good in your life, always blame it on yourself. On my part, I keep making more extreme art but I won't share it anymore, I'm also gradually taking down old extreme works. Nobody is guilty here but you - again, on my part, I keep making free art every day and I've never asked for anything in all these 20 years, other than a few simple comments. I don't want to post stuff and then feel like an idiot for posting it because everybody just turns their noses.
The new site logo (with the unicorn) looks so beautiful and festive
Thank you so much!! :D I was really surprised it didn't look off in the end :D
I would love to see more pictures about contortions.
I remember. We all do. So much so that we're thinking of doing an entire section dedicated just to your precious little requests. The whole team at Yunius is working tirelessly to meet your expectations, don't worry. We are putting everything together and making sure it's exactly how you want it. Just for you, because we know you have such high standards. Keep in touch! You already said the same thing like 10 times - don't hesitate to tell us again and again how important it is to make things for your own personal amusement. You truly inspire us!
Thank you so much 🥰 I tried to do my best! Almost brings tears to the eye to see this photo in high quality after so many years ;D
Me personally I like this one better
Yup, this version is much closer to the original photo - we keep getting better and better tools for this kind of work... Unfortunately it still took me hours to do just one picture... Of course, it would have taken me a minute to do a poor quality upscale and mangle all the details into some hilarious AI artifacts, completely different faces and dozens of anatomy mistakes, it would be great for the lulz and to see how much AI "sucks" etc... But I wanted to do a really good job instead and try to make it near perfect, find out what is truly possible... ;D
Looks so amazing, even better than before, most of the time when i look at old black and white picture i wonder what it looks like in color but then see it in 4K makes me wonder more XD
Thank you so much! :D I'm so glad it paid off after spending a whole day on this!
I'm actually a pro at turning grayscale into color as that was exactly my coloring technique back in the old days. I would do all the shading as a grayscale layer in Photoshop, then put some colorizing layers on top - all of my old works were done this way...
But somehow I can't see this picture in color, maybe I'm too used to seeing it in black and white ^^;
I wouldn't call it "restoration" but you're right that the render is beautiful. So is the original, though!
Well, I'm trying my best to assume that you didn't mean to sound as rude as you did. This is not simply a more realistic version of yuni.us/adance09-jpg - both versions are actual attempts at restoration of the original photo:
Considering I've spent almost an entire day just on this picture, trying to match every single nuance to the original, and I think I got pretty damn close in everything from faces and hair to every bit of anatomy and texture, I definitely would call this a restoration and not just some puny "render".
"Yuni: The character reminds a bit of this sprite I think?"
Yes! But now he is not a pixel sprite, but a real sexy bendit in all his glory! <3
Yuni, I read with great interest about the back archers of Yunia, and then I searched for other images of archers on your site and found a page about the elves and their supreme god L'amouriel. L'amouriel is depicted as an archer. Naked and aroused, as the religious precepts of the elves demand, but still an archer. Does this mean that he is not only the god of love, but also the patron deity of the elven archers, or even all archers in Yunia? That would be an interesting combination of specializations for a god!
It's wonderful that you found this subject interesting! The concept of archery is indeed fascinating... Perhaps, long ago, in ancient times, it was the elves who first discovered and developed the bow. Back then, evil forces tended to invade the world by emerging from dark storm clouds overhead, and as the world was young, there was little protection against them...
Then the elves invented the bow and the art of archery - aiming high into the sky, they found that arching their back generated a mysterious charge within their arrows - one that could harm the dark clouds overhead... They quickly discovered that the greater they arched their back during shooting, the more powerful their attacks became. So they came to be known as "back archers", or simply archers, people who could defend against the malignant energies raining down upon the world....
So given his role as the god of love and protection, L'amouriel naturally transformed into a divine archer over time... Unfortunately, the wicked spirits also evolved over time and learned to possess things and create golems composed of stone and hardwood. And sadly, the spectral arrows fired by back archers proved ineffective against material objects. So over time, knights and barbarians took the role of those who can strike down these golem constructs, charging their bodies/weapons with contortion magic capable of driving the dark spirit out of its host - returning it to its cloud form, so the archers can once more target and damage this more vulnerable form...
And possessed humans are a whole different topic that requires even more complicated measures - mages, flexorcists, waist-cinching etc... ;D
Dear Yuni, this is your world and your art! Never draw or write anything you don't want!
Write stories to your images only when you yourself feel the need to write a story. Or never write at all, if you don't like it.
Don't draw sex images if you feel that you are doing it only because sex images have more views and comments. Or create only the most kinky contortionist sex art, without wasting time and effort on creating sexless "fillers" just because you are embarrassed by the condemnation of all sorts of prudes.
Develop the world of Yunia, invent its laws and customs, populate it with gods, people and mythical monsters... But only if you yourself are interested in building this new world. Or leave Yunia as it is and each time create a completely new image, not connected with others by theme, style or characters.
This is your life and your art. You should enjoy what you create. This is the only rule.
You are a talented artist. So if you do what you really like to do, there will always be enough people who will sincerely love your art work.
Sasha M
PS The size of the audience is not directly related to the quality of the work. The world is full of stories about how a not very well-known writer or musician created a great work and got almost zero audience. Then this work was stolen by a famous musician or writer, and so this work became known and popular all over the world.
The quality of the work, the development of characters, the creation of your own interesting world. All of the above in itself will not help to increase the audience. This problem is usually solved by a completely different kind of "art": the art of promoting.
PPS By the way, speaking about the list of characters that another commentator provided. It seems to me, if my memory serves me right, that there are only two Sashas on the site: one of them is a minor character created by some other artist, not Yuni, and the second Sasha is me. But if Yuni suddenly needs to own a character named Sasha, then I am always ready for action. I was flexible enough and looked good when I was young. :D (Sorry ^^)
I'm definitely interested to build something that feels like home to my characters, it's just difficult to think of the details. Fixing everything in a single setting would be quite inflexible... While pretending that the characters just make movies or seeing dreams where they take on different roles - that doesn't give the feeling of something solid, and generally feels more and more confusing over time...
My friend Orlando Agudelo-Botero is an artist of some prominence in the past forty years, and over tea one morning we were discussing what he had planned for his time in the studio, which was to begin that day and continue for a couple of days, at least. When I asked if he had new ideas already mapped out in his brain he said this: 'I go into the studio with a dozen great ideas and then I get the hell out of my own way.' This is the man who believes he is merely an instrument for the creativity that exists in the universe. Yes, he is a very humble man. My partner and I stopped working with our story online because we could see there was a different type of visitor after ten years, one who was more demanding and not the kind of person you would invite to your table to share a meal. The atmosphere has changed and I agree with the others who nixed the idea of FB, DA, etc., because it is their arena and they will eventually step on your toes, or worse. My daily motivation is my second book, whose characters keep everything moving, by highjacking my brain, 24/7. During my time of tapping at my keyboard, I am often reminded of your boys; Martin, Sasha, Amtril, Andrzej, Yasha...well, you get the idea, and I often use them as references, when describing facial expressions, and bodies. But, I am digressing.
First, all things in life are cyclical, the value of money, artwork, housing, food, etc., are in a constant state of change. This is how it is with your craft, as well. If you think about it, some of your fans may have grown up and their passions changed, whereas others may have made that eternal change and stepped off this globe of crazies. There is also the thing which turned my partner and I off to sharing our work online, which is the accelerated rate of expectation that many have, which is why many anime/3D artists have opted for mediocrity, to satisfy the beast that is their fanbase, with new work daily. If I could leave you with one thing to mull over in your mind it would be that you shouldn't give 'website traffic' any importance, for folks will still come to view great work and great writing. I spent forty years in advertising and marketing, and without taking a small 'footprint' on several of the social sites, there isn't much else you can do. DA is not a site conducive to this, nor is FB. Rule34.xxx has a smattering of your work posted by others, and Rule34.paheal is slowly sinking into the quagmire, so I don't see 34.paheal as viable for you. The plus about Rule34.xxx is they have an option for the poster to list the 'source' of the image/video, and many do so, conscientiously.
Second, the internet now has billions of images/videos and keeping anyone's attention in this environment is much like herding cats. So, kick your muse in his/her fetching derriere and, if all else fails go for a walk, go swimming, have a glass of very good wine, or a single malt scotch, and what you seek will make its presence known to you - in its own time. After all, you didn't dream up all of those wonderful stories, extraordinary characters and very unique backstories overnight, did you?
It's a great saying if you think of it: "I go into the studio with a dozen great ideas and then I get the hell out of my own way." Indeed I often feel like I'm putting a lot of unnecessary things in my own way. Sometimes I go crazy about needing to write narratives for every single artwork, but then it gets crazier when I suddenly feel the need to connect all the narratives into something bigger. It may feel kind of bad, maybe forced, and yet there's the feeling that my life is wasted if I don't manage to finally connect all the pieces of the puzzle...
There's this simple solution to just drop all that, get everything out of my way and just be at ease. Sometimes I do that and post pictures that don't even have a title, but then it feels empty - no thoughts for comments... And I certainly don't want to leave my visitors speechless... Comments are all I have - I'm not paid for any of this, I'm not a famous artist with a gallery in a big city, I don't have any cool friends to drink with. All I have de facto is the internet comments and also writing my own stories as a form of communication. It's hard to get these things out of the way and simply enjoy being connected with the universe, while making completely random art...
It's very true that there was one internet in the late 1990s with dialup, fanfics and piracy, a completely different internet in the late 2000s with YouTube and Facebook, then a whole different internet in the late 2010s with Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, all the ranking algorithms everywhere, the death of standalone websites and everybody moving to social platforms that tell us what to do and what not to do... Now again something different with all the social platforms being so terrible that people don't know where to go anymore. No way back, no future either.
By the end of 2020s, we will all have our own isolated spaces, where we only talk with AI bots because they're so friendly and wise, bots will make our work for us and then other bots will evaluate "our" work, giving us the sense of validation - they will even rate us from 1 to 10. Talking with real humans would be another boomer thing, something wild and prehistorical - who needs those hostile idiots anyway? All they can do is offend you in one way or another. People will gather to have a beer once a year and talk about the best new AI, bots, or maybe even dolls, in a few years... So my theory is, people are losing the gift of socialization and it's getting replaced with technology - even in a big crowd everyone is only friends with their own phone.
Just like you stopped your online activity, I was also thinking about doing that many times - luckily, despite the internet feels so different now, there are still many factors that save me from that "final decision". Including this comment where you mention so many names of my characters and say they have wonderful stories... Thank you!!
About Rule34.xxx, I'm glad at least some site would still host some of my works after I'm gone, sadly in terms of discovery my art is a drop in the ocean and I doubt I have many visitors who come from imageboards.
I also respect your opinion about not giving website traffic any importance, it's always been my dream to achieve exactly that state of things where I simply have art that is good enough for people to want to see it in the first place... But at the current state of things, I realize I have a mess of over 2000 jigsaw pieces scattered over the floor and only a vague idea of how to put it all together... And I'm sure it's confusing as hell for everyone... If I could enter the state of being too carried away by the process of assembling the puzzle, I think it would be much easier to ignore the traffic and focus on the art - at the same time automatically making it more interesting... So I'm definitely looking forward to developing my recent ideas some more...
🎞️ adance15.jpg
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Yuni, you are the best or . The best!!!
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Thank you very much for the recognition! This is a great honor for me. I always try to do everything possible to make my works as high-quality and interesting as possible, and it seems that this is bringing results.
web.archive.org/web/20071115173728/https://www.contortionhomepage.com/adance.html
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very beautiful
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Thank you for your kind words. It's a pleasure to share something beautiful with someone else!
⛏️ Fold Nugget
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I like this guy
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Thank you! I'm glad you like my drawings
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Yuni, on the one hand, you are right, of course. Especially since this will require technical changes to the site.
But on the other hand, it can be much more difficult to systematize a large amount of material than to create a Yunipedia section and add new subsections and articles to it one by one (as needed).
For example, if you have materials about L'amouriel, it is much easier to immediately create a "Yunia/Pantheon/L'amouriel" subsection (or hierarchical tags) and collect materials there too, than to display them only in the main timeline, where you yourself can lose them over time.
I mean, I accidentally found a page about the god L'amouriel when I was looking for pictures of archers. And now I would like to read the texts and look at images of other gods, but I just don't know if there is any information on this topic on the site or not yet.
It would be easier for you yourself when all new materials are added in a systematic way. And you can always refresh your memory with the necessary information.
For the development of a new world, the online encyclopedia format is much more suitable than a blog. At the same time, the main blog can continue to display absolutely all new works, regardless of whether they are related to the Yunia project or not.
Sasha M
PS Thank you very much for continuing to improve the site! Sorting by year and best pictures of the year is a very nice and convenient addition.
I agree with you that the current structure of the site can sometimes be confusing and it's often hard to find a specific post, while older posts tend to vanish into oblivion.
I've considered making a wiki-like system many times, but every time it's very hard to think of the structure. I remember the last time I tried dividing Yunia to kingdoms and describing each of them, it ended up being a lot of information, and as usual I got the impression that nobody was impressed... XD
So I'm still on the way to find the right structure that would be helpful instead of feeling unnecessary...
Also, not all people are good at expressing their thoughts. I often screw up too, so I'll try to formulate my question very carefully and thoroughly:
Is there anything I can personally do to prevent you from "gradually deleting" your old classic super kinky/extreme works, but rather to encourage you to "gradually bring back" the old ones and publish new ones?
I'm sure Shifty and your other regular viewers and commenters would also be happy to know how they can help.
PS I thought you were deleting some kinky pictures because of self-censorship or because you yourself haven't been very interested in making sex/kinky pictures in recent years. But I never thought you were deleting them because of lack of interest. Look, super hot picture of Yasha and Andrzej ( yuni.us/the-unseen-footage ) has more comments than most others and is still at the top of views. And some of the comments on this picture are very cute and passionate, in my opinion.
Please just tell me if there's anything I can do to keep you sharing pictures like these and I will:
yuni.us/this-too-shall-pass-v2
yuni.us/dont-drop-the-soap
yuni.us/satanic-picnic
yuni.us/toy-dump
yuni.us/nekoandrzej-v2
yuni.us/sergios-new-sounds
yuni.us/toy-for-love
yuni.us/heavy-load
yuni.us/double-filler
yuni.us/family-reunion
yuni.us/anus-in-furs
yuni.us/the-invulnerable
PPS I understand you don't have enough time and energy to answer all the comments, but I really, really hope you answer this one!
I'm glad you've noticed how much people enjoy certain images, like The Unseen Footage... It shows me that there is a demand for such works, which encourages me to continue creating them ;D
Regarding your question about what you can do to prevent me from deleting my old classic super kinky/extreme works, but rather encourage me to gradually bring back the old ones and publish new ones... I think it's great that you're asking this. It shows a genuine interest in my work and a desire to support me. Next time I'm about to delete something, I'll try to remember your question and think about it before doing so. Your support means a lot to me! Even if I can't always control my feelings and emotions while dealing with negative comments from jerks...
In the recent years, I've tried many times to keep sharing something interesting and extreme and every single time everyone simply ignores it, turning their noses like it's some smelly shit. The only shame is accusations like this - assumptions that I must sit there for hours a day, making some free extreme art for you while you don't need to move a finger other than 1click to open and close my webpage. Beautiful life, keep it up!
So if you lose something good in your life, always blame it on yourself. On my part, I keep making more extreme art but I won't share it anymore, I'm also gradually taking down old extreme works. Nobody is guilty here but you - again, on my part, I keep making free art every day and I've never asked for anything in all these 20 years, other than a few simple comments. I don't want to post stuff and then feel like an idiot for posting it because everybody just turns their noses.
🎞️ adance09.jpg v2
I'm actually a pro at turning grayscale into color as that was exactly my coloring technique back in the old days. I would do all the shading as a grayscale layer in Photoshop, then put some colorizing layers on top - all of my old works were done this way...
But somehow I can't see this picture in color, maybe I'm too used to seeing it in black and white ^^;
yuni.us/static/embed/adance09.jpg
Considering I've spent almost an entire day just on this picture, trying to match every single nuance to the original, and I think I got pretty damn close in everything from faces and hair to every bit of anatomy and texture, I definitely would call this a restoration and not just some puny "render".
🏹 Back Archer
Yes! But now he is not a pixel sprite, but a real sexy bendit in all his glory! <3
Yuni, I read with great interest about the back archers of Yunia, and then I searched for other images of archers on your site and found a page about the elves and their supreme god L'amouriel. L'amouriel is depicted as an archer. Naked and aroused, as the religious precepts of the elves demand, but still an archer. Does this mean that he is not only the god of love, but also the patron deity of the elven archers, or even all archers in Yunia? That would be an interesting combination of specializations for a god!
Then the elves invented the bow and the art of archery - aiming high into the sky, they found that arching their back generated a mysterious charge within their arrows - one that could harm the dark clouds overhead... They quickly discovered that the greater they arched their back during shooting, the more powerful their attacks became. So they came to be known as "back archers", or simply archers, people who could defend against the malignant energies raining down upon the world....
So given his role as the god of love and protection, L'amouriel naturally transformed into a divine archer over time... Unfortunately, the wicked spirits also evolved over time and learned to possess things and create golems composed of stone and hardwood. And sadly, the spectral arrows fired by back archers proved ineffective against material objects. So over time, knights and barbarians took the role of those who can strike down these golem constructs, charging their bodies/weapons with contortion magic capable of driving the dark spirit out of its host - returning it to its cloud form, so the archers can once more target and damage this more vulnerable form...
And possessed humans are a whole different topic that requires even more complicated measures - mages, flexorcists, waist-cinching etc... ;D
Falling apart . . .
Write stories to your images only when you yourself feel the need to write a story.
Or never write at all, if you don't like it.
Don't draw sex images if you feel that you are doing it only because sex images have more views and comments.
Or create only the most kinky contortionist sex art, without wasting time and effort on creating sexless "fillers" just because you are embarrassed by the condemnation of all sorts of prudes.
Develop the world of Yunia, invent its laws and customs, populate it with gods, people and mythical monsters... But only if you yourself are interested in building this new world.
Or leave Yunia as it is and each time create a completely new image, not connected with others by theme, style or characters.
This is your life and your art. You should enjoy what you create. This is the only rule.
You are a talented artist. So if you do what you really like to do, there will always be enough people who will sincerely love your art work.
Sasha M
PS The size of the audience is not directly related to the quality of the work. The world is full of stories about how a not very well-known writer or musician created a great work and got almost zero audience. Then this work was stolen by a famous musician or writer, and so this work became known and popular all over the world.
The quality of the work, the development of characters, the creation of your own interesting world. All of the above in itself will not help to increase the audience. This problem is usually solved by a completely different kind of "art": the art of promoting.
PPS By the way, speaking about the list of characters that another commentator provided. It seems to me, if my memory serves me right, that there are only two Sashas on the site: one of them is a minor character created by some other artist, not Yuni, and the second Sasha is me. But if Yuni suddenly needs to own a character named Sasha, then I am always ready for action. I was flexible enough and looked good when I was young. :D
(Sorry ^^)
First, all things in life are cyclical, the value of money, artwork, housing, food, etc., are in a constant state of change. This is how it is with your craft, as well. If you think about it, some of your fans may have grown up and their passions changed, whereas others may have made that eternal change and stepped off this globe of crazies. There is also the thing which turned my partner and I off to sharing our work online, which is the accelerated rate of expectation that many have, which is why many anime/3D artists have opted for mediocrity, to satisfy the beast that is their fanbase, with new work daily. If I could leave you with one thing to mull over in your mind it would be that you shouldn't give 'website traffic' any importance, for folks will still come to view great work and great writing. I spent forty years in advertising and marketing, and without taking a small 'footprint' on several of the social sites, there isn't much else you can do. DA is not a site conducive to this, nor is FB. Rule34.xxx has a smattering of your work posted by others, and Rule34.paheal is slowly sinking into the quagmire, so I don't see 34.paheal as viable for you. The plus about Rule34.xxx is they have an option for the poster to list the 'source' of the image/video, and many do so, conscientiously.
Second, the internet now has billions of images/videos and keeping anyone's attention in this environment is much like herding cats. So, kick your muse in his/her fetching derriere and, if all else fails go for a walk, go swimming, have a glass of very good wine, or a single malt scotch, and what you seek will make its presence known to you - in its own time. After all, you didn't dream up all of those wonderful stories, extraordinary characters and very unique backstories overnight, did you?
There's this simple solution to just drop all that, get everything out of my way and just be at ease. Sometimes I do that and post pictures that don't even have a title, but then it feels empty - no thoughts for comments... And I certainly don't want to leave my visitors speechless... Comments are all I have - I'm not paid for any of this, I'm not a famous artist with a gallery in a big city, I don't have any cool friends to drink with. All I have de facto is the internet comments and also writing my own stories as a form of communication. It's hard to get these things out of the way and simply enjoy being connected with the universe, while making completely random art...
It's very true that there was one internet in the late 1990s with dialup, fanfics and piracy, a completely different internet in the late 2000s with YouTube and Facebook, then a whole different internet in the late 2010s with Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, all the ranking algorithms everywhere, the death of standalone websites and everybody moving to social platforms that tell us what to do and what not to do... Now again something different with all the social platforms being so terrible that people don't know where to go anymore. No way back, no future either.
By the end of 2020s, we will all have our own isolated spaces, where we only talk with AI bots because they're so friendly and wise, bots will make our work for us and then other bots will evaluate "our" work, giving us the sense of validation - they will even rate us from 1 to 10. Talking with real humans would be another boomer thing, something wild and prehistorical - who needs those hostile idiots anyway? All they can do is offend you in one way or another. People will gather to have a beer once a year and talk about the best new AI, bots, or maybe even dolls, in a few years... So my theory is, people are losing the gift of socialization and it's getting replaced with technology - even in a big crowd everyone is only friends with their own phone.
Just like you stopped your online activity, I was also thinking about doing that many times - luckily, despite the internet feels so different now, there are still many factors that save me from that "final decision". Including this comment where you mention so many names of my characters and say they have wonderful stories... Thank you!!
About Rule34.xxx, I'm glad at least some site would still host some of my works after I'm gone, sadly in terms of discovery my art is a drop in the ocean and I doubt I have many visitors who come from imageboards.
I also respect your opinion about not giving website traffic any importance, it's always been my dream to achieve exactly that state of things where I simply have art that is good enough for people to want to see it in the first place... But at the current state of things, I realize I have a mess of over 2000 jigsaw pieces scattered over the floor and only a vague idea of how to put it all together... And I'm sure it's confusing as hell for everyone... If I could enter the state of being too carried away by the process of assembling the puzzle, I think it would be much easier to ignore the traffic and focus on the art - at the same time automatically making it more interesting... So I'm definitely looking forward to developing my recent ideas some more...