On Jan 28, 2014, sls-scifiandart said:

"I REALLY hate that I can spend 10 hours on a picture and get 20 likes / reblogs, while a doodle of the same fandom will get 250 or more."

This and the logic that the original artist has significantly less notes compared to some dope blogger that took the image and reposted it at times. In my opinion, it's more of share common interest material rather than "show your amazing talents" blog. RP blogs do better in gaining followers and most fandom art in terms of anime are merely credited pixiv images. I mean, is it hard to put a thumbnail and let users see the full image at the site itself so the artist gets more viewers?

I despise certain parts of DA over Tumblr though. Mainly underage twats and others using/uploading pics that aren't their own and such.

I absolutely agree. As bad as Tumblr is, it is better than DA these days. Fandoms will alway trump original art on social media because most people go there just to squee about their fandoms. But there are places on tumblr for art, just not as loud.

Pinterest might be more popular than tumblr, but tumblr is a better place for webcomics and so far I get more traffic on tumblr.

My pinterest is  https://www.pinterest.com/deadrats/ (I'm slowly getting into it) and lately I've found Instagram an interesting place for artists: https://instagram.com/deadratsinmyfreezer/  (it get more traffic than pinterest for me right now).