Memories
While rewording the description and checking a few things for the listing of a ring on my shop on Etsy website, I looked at one of the pictures: this picture was not a real picture actually, but just an image with some words on it, I
actually forgot about all these little features that made Etsy a beautiful place... Once. The words are
"This item made it to the front page on Etsy"
A few of my items made it to the front page many years ago, when Etsy was a place for real artists and artisans, this was one of those achievements we all were aiming for. At that time for a few years, Etsy was a beautiful place, then it all changed. A couple of different CEOs and people around them decided to take different directions and doing so ruined the real spirit of Etsy, just in the name of profit at all cost, like everything else in this society, right? Etsy became a sort of Ebay and Amazon with a better design, where lots of sellers are just sellers, who have their products mass produced so, low quality, big quantity, cheap and all the same kind of stuff invaded this market that once was a real gem.
We used to have treasuries and the featured sellers, but real artists, whowere featured
Of course, there are still some artists-artisans on Etsy and probably they will always be. We are artists with real passion in our hearts, real people who love to create, real people who have values, who want to stay true to our beliefs.
This is just an old beautiful memory, I so wished it was still like that, like it was in the beginning.
Etsy should have stayed the way it was!
"This item made it to the front page on Etsy"
A few of my items made it to the front page many years ago, when Etsy was a place for real artists and artisans, this was one of those achievements we all were aiming for. At that time for a few years, Etsy was a beautiful place, then it all changed. A couple of different CEOs and people around them decided to take different directions and doing so ruined the real spirit of Etsy, just in the name of profit at all cost, like everything else in this society, right? Etsy became a sort of Ebay and Amazon with a better design, where lots of sellers are just sellers, who have their products mass produced so, low quality, big quantity, cheap and all the same kind of stuff invaded this market that once was a real gem.
We used to have treasuries and the featured sellers, but real artists, who
Of course, there are still some artists-artisans on Etsy and probably they will always be. We are artists with real passion in our hearts, real people who love to create, real people who have values, who want to stay true to our beliefs.
This is just an old beautiful memory, I so wished it was still like that, like it was in the beginning.
Etsy should have stayed the way it was!
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