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I finally noticed this place moved! ๐
Superbowl is still doing well. I felt there was a slump for a bit in traffic for a bit, but numbers are back to normal. Comments feel a little slower and I don't think as many regulars are commenting.
I've been checking lemvotes occasionally out of curiosity to see who my random downvoters are, and I see everyone is still stopping by and liking things, but maybe they don't have anything to say.
I'm also feeling they don't like baby owls as much as adults, which is kinda surprising. It seems all the baby posts pick up less votes.
I've been trying to make the Dusky Eagle Owl more popular. I really enjoy them, and I've gotten a bunch of pics of them recently and they have very house cat like faces. I enjoyed my genuine non-AI rendition of their similarities.
That generated some fun comments for a bit. People definitely like that stuff and my bad photo edits much more than AI stuff I've played with. That seems to get people angry.
I've been getting some "new" owl content ready to share. Rarer things they haven't seen yet, there's still many owls we haven't looked at as a group yet.
A lot of people enjoy my tales from the clinic and seeing some of the other animals I work with as well. It's nice to sneak in occasional non-owl content.
To be fair, your owl-cat hybrid is super cute and authentic, so I'm definitely not surprised that people prefer it over AI stuff!
It was so uncanny every time I went back to the post to reply to someone! The proportions were so identical, even the little smirk shaped mouth and technically the whiskers, though they aren't as long and go a different direction, were there. It just needed a nose instead of a beak.
So many times I'm scrolling All and get my hopes up that I see another person posting an owl, but then I see it's another cat photo.
It did come out really adorable in a "let's hang this one in the refrigerator" kind of way. ๐ I'm glad you liked it too.