Recognition always seems to come to me after the ship sails.
Not everyone knows, but about two years ago I started a series of videos on YouTube and quit because nobody was watching them. One guy (total stranger) pointed out to me that most popular Let's Players start out with a 0 fanbase, so I pressed on and got about two hundred subscribers out of it. People are still commenting on my crap.
Now it's here on deviantART. I don't really have the energy anymore to do the controversial stamps which seem to make up the majority of my art on this particular website, but just yesterday this one got added to about half a dozen stamp groups, which