My opinion... Yes, I would sometimes feel cheated if the thumb bore no resemblance to the render it was attached to. I say sometimes because I know enough of Pookah69's work to expect something like that from time to time. With pooka69's images, I think it's pretty cleverly done and at the least gives me a smile or two. I agree that it's better to get comments than a thousand hits and not one bit of feedback. As for the "Wow, great!" type of comments, I'm just as guilty as anyone for that. Sometimes there just isn't anything else to say. Even so, I wouldn't shy away from making a suggestion for improvement if I thought an image needed it, no matter who the artist was. As for getting hits, my own experience showed me that a current topic can work wonders. The most viewed and commented image in my gallery is "Bite Me". It's not my best image by any means, but it sure was popular. Conversely, one of the least commented and viewed images is "Flesh", which I happen to think is one of my best. Do I play the game? Not really. I'll generally put a face in the thumb but I don't particularly follow the tits=hits rule. Some of my thumbs have 'em, others don't. It's entirely coincidental.

Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.

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