Pixiv is fucking garbage right now
Recently, Pixiv has been hitting creators with a massive wave of shadowbans (search bans), using some bullshit excuse about "posts likely to violate guidelines."
The massive fucking problem here is that Pixiv claims they're doing this to "prevent posts that interfere with users discovering artwork," but the reality is completely the opposite.
For example, a creator who posts one high-quality piece a day gets shadowbanned, while some spammer shitting out 6-7 low-quality garbage posts a day doesn't get touched at all and is doing just fine.
You know what the difference between the two is? I don't fucking know either, because Pixiv absolutely refuses to tell anyone LMAO.
But from what I've observed watching other creators, it seems like their main targets are artists who use external links to sell paid content. Generally speaking, creators who sell their work have a very high baseline for quality because they actually need to sell it. At least, that's what I've seen.
But since Pixiv is shadowbanning all these good creators, the end result is that all the decent quality uploads are gone, and the site is now just completely flooded with meaningless, dogshit AI spam.
The people running Pixiv are absolute fucking idiots.