I've gotten tired of social media and using it to keep others aware of how I'm doing, or keeping track of how others are doing. Social sites are flooded with algorithms - mixing in actually useful or interesting updates with ads, trending posts, likes and retweets, vitriol, and other useless things. Social media is also generally extremely homogeneous. For most websites, every profile is basically identical and can't really be personalized with regards to structure or layout or even color. I think this is unreasonable in general but especially for art, with art profiles on Instagram or DeviantArt accounts all having to present every single piece/post in the same way. It's absurd.
Social media fails to be social, and fails to be good media. I have long felt that I would rather be subscribed to and read newsletters from all my friends than follow them on social media, and I think lots of people would prefer writing letters or newsletters!
I've also always been enamored with the personal websites of the type that flourished in the 90's, at the infancy of the Internet. Some of my favorites are:
Lord knows I could go on all day. I like the more traditional form of personal websites compared to the social media we've become expected to use everyday, and wanted to emulate some of my favorite sites on the web. So that's what's here!