They are still around. Most of the community has died down but you can find the occasional auction going around and there's still people who either have enough money or make enough to bid it up. The new species to take waterdogs place I would say is Chimerons which became popular by a meme animator who made the species after making her main character. They're basically chameleons who can furry, buggy, fishy, or avian like depending on rarity. That one is funny since it used to be semi open, where you could make a common Chimeron for free. Now Groundlion (The animator and owner of the species) has made them closed and you either need to buy one in Auctions which someone will id 50$ instantly even when the SB is 20$ or be lucky enough to win the raffle to buy a myo slot.
People see others making money off of designs, not even closed species, and they notice how well they do. Originality is dead and most of these people don't know it. So, They take aspects of various things mash it together and write loose lore about it. It then becomes super new and exciting. Personally the only species I've seen that I like are Gastrosnaps which one could argue are a rip off of Leech Monsters.
yeah, seelnose is pretty popular on twitter. it’s funny because i recall seeing some drama around her back when she was mostly on FA. of course it’s been years so i couldn’t tell you exactly what it was.
Never thought I would see the day, but apparently the muzzle rings that they now get aren't "true muzzle rings", so this means they still can't have all the special/donut steel features Telephone has.
There will always be that one exceptional ass kisser who will say it's unoriginal and get up someone's ass about it. I also get the feelings mods will still say and encourage to stray from muzzle ring designs.
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the mods were still bitchy about people having muzzle rings on their DADs. Hell, it wouldn't even surprise me if Ino herself told someone directly that their character couldn't have a muzzle ring (even if they said it was the false one).
It's only a matter of time. I give it four months to two years, since I do think that Ino believes that anyone with a muzzle ring on their DAD is trying to steal Telephone's look (even if their design is far more different, unlike the dutch angel dragon in the image below, which is almost a carbon copy of telephone).
I'm gonna say, like most people in the DAD community, either a child made it or someone with the mind of one.
