Sincere thanks for 2,000 Follows

Hi everyone- I never intended to post anything regarding a milestone as I didn't want it to sound as self-congratulory, then when Serget2 posted I realized what a good opportunity it was to thank other creators who’ve helped/inspired me along the way, and without whom I wouldn't have been able to get to what I consider a reasonably consistent quality of images (and yeah, I realise the irony of stealing someone's post idea as though I'm stealing an image idea).  Only 5 weeks ago I was struggling to get 5 reactions per image and bouncing in and out of the top 1,000 in the Master Generators leaderboard, so it seems somewhat surreal to have attained a degree of popularity in the time since Flux became available for on-site creators.  Before Flux I didn’t have a single image that had reached the 50 reactions milestone, whereas now 25% of my images hit that mark. I struggled for quite a while with "imposter syndrome" competing with more creative users- anyone who sees my prompts knows I'm not one to write a wall of prose to get what I want, although I'm often impressed by the more creative writers of prompts that isn't really in my armoury.

Firstly, I fully realise that “2,000 followers” isn’t real- it’s mainly bots, probably 100 people who pity-followed me after I followed them, 100 or so people who followed me for my skeevy, low quality porn images when I started 3 months ago and have lost interest since I stopped doing that, leaving probably about 200 real followers, but a heartfelt thanks to everyone who’s reacted to my images, commented, or donated buzz, and to other creators I’ve lifted ideas and inspiration from.

As with Serget2 I am particularly indebted to @ArtifyAI for including so many of my images in his OUTSTANDING ART COLLECTION and more recently @Castro for his Fantastic AI-Art Collection (links to both at the top of my homepage)- apart from the three images I’ve had featured on the homepage, 95% of my other most successful images were featured in Artify’s gallery- both of them constantly feature new creators so it’s not a limited clique of creators that are featured, and both are different enough to stand on their own merits.

Thanks also to creators of LoRAs/models that have been kind enough to converse with me (special shout-outs to @ArsMachina for taking the time to talk with me, and to @HailoKnight for tipping me 1,000 buzz for an image, and encouraging comments from AIDigitalMediaAgency before I became more successful.