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Just curious about how this would happen

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Yoksven

I stumbled upon this artist: kamakura_(umi_146). Every image I see was uploaded 5 days ago, but all links are dead. Both pixiv and twitter seem to be dead. And I'm just wondering how that would happen. I guess there is a random chance that the artist has decided to disappear just in last 5 days, but I wonder if anyone has a better idea then it just being a coincidence. Also, links to some accounts in the artist's info are already marked as being dead, so... were there more images from those accounts, but they were deleted? But if they were deleted, then why are these new ones here and why they have dead links? It just makes me curious.

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Missingno2024

Yoksven said:

I stumbled upon this artist: kamakura_(umi_146). Every image I see was uploaded 5 days ago, but all links are dead. Both pixiv and twitter seem to be dead. And I'm just wondering how that would happen. I guess there is a random chance that the artist has decided to disappear just in last 5 days, but I wonder if anyone has a better idea then it just being a coincidence. Also, links to some accounts in the artist's info are already marked as being dead, so... were there more images from those accounts, but they were deleted? But if they were deleted, then why are these new ones here and why they have dead links? It just makes me curious.

Most likely the uploader had previously uploaded the image to Dnabooru but chose not to immediately post it. Thus even though the artwork is no longer available on pixiv it was still saved here (albeit untagged and missing any commentary that may have accompanied the original image).

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ANON TOKYO

Missingno2024 said:

Most likely the uploader had previously uploaded the image to Dnabooru but chose not to immediately post it. Thus even though the artwork is no longer available on pixiv it was still saved here (albeit untagged and missing any commentary that may have accompanied the original image).

This is the most likely yes. Quite a few people here have offline backups of artists, in case they delete their socials. Tools like gallery-dl can also save the related commentary etc, so even that isn't lost per se.

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mbits

The most recent upload on pixiv (as of writing) is 123940712, and one of this artist works has id 120673317. So just some rough math (123940712 / 6263 days since pixiv released) = 19789 average posts/day

(123940712 - 120673317) / 19789 = posted 165 days ago

So the illustration was probably originally posted around May 21, 2024, but the uploader already had their illustrations saved before the artist decided to remove their stuff.

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Knowledge Seeker

FivePastNever said:

the github page has plenty of options depending on what's easier for you. Personally I recommend just using pip.

Thanks! Main issue is that my computer doesn't have a Python package pre-installed (not to mention all the options on Github are dizzying as someone not exactly a programmer), hence why I kinda got...stuck lol.

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viliml

Moebits said:

The most recent upload on pixiv (as of writing) is 123940712, and one of this artist works has id 120673317. So just some rough math (123940712 / 6263 days since pixiv released) = 19789 average posts/day

(123940712 - 120673317) / 19789 = posted 165 days ago

So the illustration was probably originally posted around May 21, 2024, but the uploader already had their illustrations saved before the artist decided to remove their stuff.

Or you could read the internal source url, https://i.pximg.net/img-original/img/2024/07/19/21/19/58/120673317_p0.jpg, which says the image was uploaded on 2024-07-19 21:19:58 JST.

That is closer to today than your estimate, which makes sense because the frequency of pixiv uploads has increased with time.

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