It's a little over a year since I first noticed I had been de-scouted (effectively shadow-banned) from the Newgrounds Art Portal. I never, and to this day, STILL have never received any notification or explanation as to why I was removed from the portal. I only figured it out for myself by looking around in the settings, as per my news post at the time:

https://liquidfreakstudios.newgrounds.com/news/post/1381288

My account has no doubt suffered greatly as a result of losing my scouting. For instance, I used to receive hundreds of views on my latest art posts when they were shown on the art portal, whereas nowadays I am lucky to get over 50 views, even with DOUBLE the amount of followers. In nearly 5 years of regularly posting art to this website, I have only 123 followers, whilst my peers on the forum who did NOT lose their scouting have gained hundreds of fans in the same timeframe. For a particuarly egregious comparison, my Twitter account recently reached over 125 followers compared to 123 here, despite only joining at the start of this year! And I have nearly 1.8K watchers on my DeviantArt!

Still, I tholed on, hoping that this de-scouting would just be a temporary setback, and that my artworks would be on the portal again eventually. I read somewhere that becoming unscoutable like me is only lasts for a limited time, and then we can potentially be scouted again. Well... it's been over a year now, so surely that's long enough to wait?!

As far as I know, there's STILL no option for people to scout me, but if you DO see the option to scout me next to my username on my art posts, could you let me know? That would make me feel a lot less hopeless and depressed... otherwise, I'm going to have to work up the courage to ask the staff if they can make me scoutable again. And there's a good chance they'll probably reject my request, because I am not well-liked on this site...

No doubt, this whole scouting system has caused me a lot of psychological damage, and resulted in me having considerably less confidence in my art than I ever used to have. Just as well for Newgrounds that I have no lawyer, eh?!