Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
Yeah but why should it have been so high in the first place if that's the case?
Art is subject to fads like everything else. I was really into graphic design about the same time everyone else was into graphic design. Signatures and banners and all that good stuff. Oddly enough, just as I was getting out of that phase, a lot of the resource sites I used started closing down or going on hiatus. I'd say by this point 80% of the hottest brush/texture/etc sites have shut down. On Livejournal, graphic communities dedicated icons for movies and television would get dozens of comments per post. Now a lot of them are inactive or get much fewer responses. Artists fuel other artists. You see someone post a pretty picture, you're gonna want to post a pretty picture. If no one is posting, that's gonna get others to post less as well.

Looking back that whole movement was a fad. And then the era of macros was ushered in.

Don't know about the Roleplaying forum. Never really noticed it to be that active in the first place.