To my fellow countrymen and women of the United States of America, but to all my associates abroad as well, I wish you a happy Thanksgiving!

Today is a day of celebration, to express gratitude for that which you have earned, through either diligence, thrift, or benevolence, and more so the things you are blessed to have.

Of course, this doesn't have to be delegated to just one day, nor should it. It is impossible to live a life with true, meaningful happiness without gratitude. No matter how little you think you have, only by being thankful for it can you truly appreciate it, and then it won't seem so small. If you're reading this right now, it means you have access to electrical power, a computer device, and the internet; that's an extraordinary amount to be grateful for. Yet you could have all the world, but it would be but a hollow trinket unless you cherished it for such the wonderful thing it is.

It's been a wild year so far. I have lost many things, but gained many, too, and held onto things I hold dear. I am thankful for the friends I still have and hold so close. I'm thankful Reee Tardy Oswald missed. And I am thankful for you, yes you, reading this, and that you've stayed with me through it all, or found me again after my greatest loss this year... though, if one social media account on a crumbling art (and AI slop) hosting site was the worst thing to happen to me this year, seems like a pretty good year.

To use the topic of social media as a segue, that begs the question for something that I've been pondering for a while:

Should I get a Twitter account?

With Deviant Art slowly going the way of Tumblr, and being the largest social media website on the planet (and very notably lax terms of service for art that's posted there), Twitter by default seems to be slowly overtaking Deviant Art as the world's largest art hosting site, if it hasn't already. And though I have seen growth on both my Fur Affinity and Pixiv sites, my audience on all my current galleries combined is still barely more than half of the audience I had on DA.

However, even putting aside the kind of discourse and chaos cultists that abound on the site has likened me to compare Twitter to taking a stroll through The Warp without any Gellar Fields active (watch the movie Event Horizon if you want to know what that's like), I have also personally disparaged how Twitter is, bar none, the absolute worst layout for assembling portfolio of your artistic work. It's endless, single-file feed system means your invalidating and burying your own work. Yet, unfortunately, Twitter's user base is still astronomical, and is also the main if not sole site that many artists post their work, even those whose work I highly admire, like Raikovjaba.

So, below is a poll that I'll be linking to on all my accounts: should I also set up a shop in the greenest pastures of all, or close myself off to it like a Custodian closing his mind to prevent Slaanesh from entering? (No more than he/she/it has already gained a foothold, at least.)

Should The Hungry Lurker get a Twitter account?

IMPORTANT NOTE: I cannot stress this enough, even if the overwhelming super majority vote "Yes," Twitter is not the site I want to become my primary gallery, due to how truncated conversations on posts are by strict character limits, and my aforementioned disdain for the site's browsing layout. Therefore, I would only ever upload teaser thumbnails of pictures, current and new, with links in each post to my current galleries, where I actually want my audience to engage with me and my art.

Again, on this day of thanks, thank you.