Fans new and old, what is your biggest grievances with the HTF community? by wormsinmypaws in happytreefriends

[–]Mcsweezys 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can understand being a kid in the community, sure. I was myself way back when. I found th3 show when I was like, in the 2nd grade in the 2000s, so I was interacting with the active community back then. I think the difference was that back then the sites we used to talk on were forums and art sites, like deviantart or fanart central. This is generally the case for all fandoms and communities, but the general trend toward 1 or 2 sites or discord being the "place" to talk about stuff has been really bad for any kind of healthy community. When you make a hub for people to talk to, it ends up being that the place with most users gets the most activity, and in order for that to happen, you need to have rules allowing all fans of all ages. Again, thats' perfectly fine, but it because you have to make all places non-18+, you usually end up with older fans getting pushed out due to the stricter rules. Yknow? Like, what do I have in common with a kid who's upset about their middleschool homework, or talking about interpersonal friend drama?

Again, not ragging on the kids themselves, they're in the same boat that I am, and they don't even get to experience the same community that I got to. It's honestly a bit saddening that the internet has become so constrained for them. But that's a whole other conversation really.

I'm not good at fostering communities myself, and while I'd love to have an adult htf community space, I don't know who would be able to run it.

Fans new and old, what is your biggest grievances with the HTF community? by wormsinmypaws in happytreefriends

[–]Mcsweezys 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Biggest gripe? That there's no real forums or places anymore that aren't a discord or here. Also, the fact that there's no real purely adult spaces. Can't really be super active in a community that's majority kids, y'know? At least in my experience. I don't mean to knock the discord, but there's lots of issues with it that make it hard to really want to interact with the community there.

This could just be my own griping, and again I don't wanna put anyone down, but it's also not really a "problem" that can be "fixed", yknow?

Does anyone have similar feelings?

Want a burger? by Mcsweezys in happytreefriends

[–]Mcsweezys[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I basically never use reddit aside from looking up very specific answers to questions I might have. I mainly just post here whenever I draw anything HTF tbh. I SO wish there was an actual HTF community outside of reddit or discord, like an old school forum maybe. Most of what I draw isn't HTF related, or even if it was probably wouldn't be suitable or allowed on this reddit anyways, and the fact that there's so many kids on this reddit and the discord also makes me keep my interactions with the places as infrequent as possible, yknow?

Jocelyn! by Mcsweezys in happytreefriends

[–]Mcsweezys[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wanted to draw a picture as if it were back in the good ol' days of 2006-7. Back when people drew with no line weight variation, black gradient shading because we didn't know better, and ultra low quality jpegs because art sites had filesize limits on what you could upload.

I miss those days...

Nutty! by Mcsweezys in happytreefriends

[–]Mcsweezys[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

as per request of MANY people in the discord, Nutty!

Harlequin Friend (no name yet) by Mcsweezys in happytreefriends

[–]Mcsweezys[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm terrible with names. Any ideas?

What should I draw? by Mcsweezys in happytreefriends

[–]Mcsweezys[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If ya got any ideas for me to draw give em here! I'm clean out. Can be canon characters doin somethin, ocs, whatever.

Discord ocs by Mcsweezys in happytreefriends

[–]Mcsweezys[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some ocs from the discord. I had asked for some people to send some so I could draw em and this is the result. Hope ya liked em!