OdellAtkinson 2013-07-21 02:17:25

Wish I could say I'm shocked. :/
Time to draw some Princess Bubblegum porn for viewership then. Be back in an hour.

SimplyRobot 2013-07-21 02:36:36

This has been relevant for a long time.

VicariousE 2013-07-21 02:38:38

As a fan/follower, I really don't use the 'previous-up-next' buttons, which would bypass the thumbnail view. Quickest course, is to click everything in the favorites listing, starting from a few pages back (so I don't miss anything)... which does involve going back to that listing. It's pretty rare, but sometimes I'll open the link in a new tab, so I can navigate around a bit, or look at it later. So... that's my take on the 'results skewed by' column of this post.

ZJ 2013-07-21 03:41:31

So, we're getting actual porn pictures now, right?

Right?

Sab?

TheMAM 2013-07-21 06:28:35

I wonder how much views a thumbnail of male genitalia would get. XD

Labraxadores 2013-07-21 07:27:04

Now...now this is surprising. I didn't expect that people liked tits more than butts. I mean...ah, nevermind. Anyway, I personally had no problems with the humorous tone of the survey. Well, not like it was completely necessary, but I suppose it still was fun for the viewers and the artist.

LazarheaD 2013-07-21 09:29:44

Okay, we're perverts, we get it!

Nicknclank 2013-07-21 12:21:52

I didn't even looked at the thumbnails. I just pressed the "Next" button at the art portal and came upon them ._.

Hey, at least we got drawings of Sab in the process :P

Doomroar 2013-07-21 16:34:38

well it was somehow obvious... and by somehow i mean a lot XD.
so... what will you be uploading next anyway? the Anglerfish Ovary was damn good, unlike giant homoerotic wrestlers that destroy cities... so more Anglerfishes body parts would be a nice thing to have, strange animals FTW!!

SimplyRobot 2013-07-21 16:50:45

More like since the internet itself was founded in 1992.

Spedmallet 2013-07-21 17:46:12

I pointed out the obvious and I'm a pretty girl everyone pay attention to me!!

ReignOfHell 2013-07-21 23:06:39

I guess the only thing that wasn't tested/accounted for was something slightly more specific. Like My Little Pony or something of that sort.

Almost sure that'd have quite a few guaranteed hits, still though, amusing experiment with "What you'd expect" results.

KEEP ON INOVATIN' GURL.

YoutubeIsawesome 2013-07-22 01:59:51

That's how the internet works in general

Kantoken 2013-07-22 03:37:41

Did you really needed this survey to point out the obvious? It looks like you had fun doing it, but I think you could have spend all that time and energy drawing real stuff, because, you know, "Quality artwork will find its way to the top regardless of content". Unfortunately, this isn't true. Most NG users are adolescent boys, and true to nature, are interested in anything female. Meaning that artwork containing this, will be more popular on NG. You will gather the more hard core audience who do go for quality over cheap hits, but they will always remain a smaller group. Meaning that if you want views and popularity, draw boobs. Human nature, hurray.

ancientsurvivor 2013-07-22 07:04:14

Clicked all, rated none, reviewed none.

The coal scetches on the other hand were interessting. It's surprising you had that different viewcounts however after it was kinda obvious that there/which were fake.
Missing out on - male subjects in, how did feminists call it again "objectifying" poses - is so so I guess. It would have given an ineressting contrapoint (for what my exüerience is worth, females are more "kinky").

That aside, couldn't you have made a graph? Text based result presentation is so tedious for the reviewer. Put the pictures on the abscissa and the view/score/reviews as colour RGB (or whatever) on the ordinate. Additional notes in flowtext ("retweet").
Yeah I know it ain't a scientific work but I had to read that "result image" thrice to compare results.

Psynopsis 2013-07-22 10:05:01

I know it was only a brief, informal survey, but I think you're drawing too many conclusions off of the "data". For example, your highest two submissions were both "fanart", adult rated, and had adult thumbnails. I can't say whether the "fanart" aspect , the adult rating, or thumbnail itself increased views since each of the 3 "awesome" factors is there. It would be much more interesting if you uploaded the art 4 times, each with a different rating, for example, since that would isolate one factor.

That said, I'm not surprised about the first and third place. Both have really appealing thumbnails and I would have clicked on them.

Doomroar 2013-07-23 03:25:03

"I can normally tell what'll be more popular on which site before I post it. Boobs and nudity are popular here, Fandoms and meme humor are popular on Tumblr... and weird fetish art is popular on DeviantART...!" - Sabtastic 2013

so Fucking damn true! but i will add to it, that animu gurls are just popular everywhere and that connects the 3 places.

oh? artist alleys? and is an on the net event or a physical one? regardless of it, what have you planed? i may not be a big fan of fan-art in general or portraits/still life, but your other stuff, like the penguins and the aforementioned deep sea fish reproductive orgasm are quite good.

LegolaSS 2013-07-23 05:22:26

if you want hits, GO ADULT regardless of named characters or not.
if people want to find this sort of stuff they will most likely turn off all the filters apart from adult... remember people have to turn the ADULT feature on to see it in the first place. (unless the check your user-page while its in your most recent uploads)

i am not surprised with the viewing order, i correctly guessed what order it would be on day 1.

if your going as far to get Mature, you might as well push your art to Adult unless your stuff is artistic

it all comes down to personal users taste in what they want to upload.

Side note - Adult and mature never get "popular / best of" because of its rating. (this is automatic based on view)

megas86 2013-07-23 16:14:23

on what you did in all was clever, sneaky, devious and down right funny.... brilliant cropping and i enjoyed each of the art you did.. it was like two arts into one photo... oh and the w=one that you had your middle finger up.... pure hysterical LOL i enjoy your work and always keep it up and waiting to see what is next

BrenthEMan 2013-07-26 11:08:11

I missed this until now. I laughed at your evil, devious look in the images after you click the thumbs. And the name "Operation Thumbnail - Perv Survey" ha. Like so many others, I am not surprised by your results. :)

I went through the top 20 pages on the site one day just out of curiosity and most of them were adult oriented!