>>3843005Truthful answer? No.
Because this entire board is a circlejerk comprised of no more than a couple hundred people max, of which less than a quarter are frequent posters (i.e. online more than a couple hours a day).
3.8 million posts and how long has this board existed for? Years?
/p/ is a ghost-town board. There were hobby boards on doublech-n (since the 2014 wordfilters are STILL in place) that accrued more than that in a much shorter timespan.
And it's because photography as an artful medium has died.
At the same time, photography as a meaningful form of employment has also died.
All that is left is photography for the purpose of joy. Photography has ended up in exactly the same boat as what it replaced, painting. People used to paint, both for artistic prowess and as a day job.
A present-day mid-range smartphone with a lens attachment to provide depth can do 90% of what professional grade equipment can do for a fraction of the price and space. This understandably upsets some people.
It's a hobby. Something you enjoy doing. Nothing more, and nothing less. It's not a game. It's not a competition. And if you loathe any part of said hobby, then it's perhaps not the hobby for you.
That includes if you're self-curating >40% of the photos you take and they're NOT alternate captures of the same scenes; in that instance, you're either overly self-critical to the point of needless masochism or you're just shit at photography and should give it up.
And unless you have shitloads of money to shill your works or the right combo of nepotistic connections and luck to push you upwards (i.e. Annie Leibovitz's entire career), at most a few hundred - few thousand people will see your photos in your lifetime. No-one cares about what you photograph.
All /p/ does is attract unhealthy, neurotic individuals like
>>3842938 or the guy in
>>3842939's screencap that would otherwise be kicked off of plebbit or an enthusiast forum for elitist gatekeeping.
