Hmp...eight years at Deviantart. When I first came here, my page was a bit slow to gain followers and friends. Truthfully, I came here because I was disgusted with a Tekken forum I use to dwell at. I came here to be at peace from the forum members who became personal with their 'trash talk'. I was deeply into the Tekken scene, and I was an avid Tekken fan artist. My page views begin to grow substantially due to my Tekken comics and the ol' Xiao-Feng-Fury gags. However...things begin to change as soon as I shared more of God, and especially my testimony of being delivered of homosexuality. Many of the people who I thought were my friends showed a vulgar hatred against me in an instant. In reality, the hatred was against the Lord, as it is written in the Word, "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved" (Matthew 10:22). There was a huge shaking in my list of followers and friends. Some stayed on my page, but many left. Now there are some folks who deactivated their accounts for other reasons.
So...after many years, I have lost basically all interest in the Tekken scene. I played T6 and TT2...didn't like it, and this is coming from someone who use to be on diehard level! Did my absence of Tekken art have an effect on my page views? Not at all...because now that I preach the Word more, my enemies kindly share my journals and Christian art on their forums! And this traffic brings in more people...who hate my guts, but hey...page views are page views. I lost a lot of friends, people who were never my friends...and although I speak about page views, I really don't care about that anymore. I use to, but times are different now. However, in the midst of the major shaking, I did receive some new allies. My main goal is simply to get God's Word out. Sure, I draw every once in a while, but as you can see now...my art gallery is more so politics and religion.
Things have changed... and in my opinion, FOR THE BETTER! Thank you, Jesus!