Timeline of Fanart

== Pre-internet ==
== 1989 ==
* June: Artforum, a multifandom zine focusing on discussion and advice about fanart is launched.
== 1992 ==
* March: Artistic Endeavors: An information letter to Artists like me, a letterzine/newsletter for artists, is created.
== 1996 ==
* May 1: Elfwood is created.
== 1997 ==
* Kodiak's Hanson Page, a Hanson fanart site, is created.
* Masterpiece of Hanson, a Hanson fanart site, is created.
== 1998 ==
* Looking At You, a Hanson fanart site, is created.
== 1999 ==
* Artwork Ala' Hanson is created.
* Hanson in Clay-O-Vision is created.
* Hansonart is created.
== 2000 ==
* The first round of The Paintball Awards for Hanson fanart is held.
* August 7: DeviantART is created.
== 2001 ==
* The second round of The Paintball Awards for Hanson fanart is held.
* Hanson Toons is created.
* Hanson Weekly Manga is created.
== 2002 ==
* FanQuarter, a separate fanart section on Elfwood is created.
* ArtDungeon.net, a private Harry Potter fanart gallery, is launched.
* Back In The Swing, Lily-fox's fanart site, is created.
== 2003 ==
* November 30: SheezyArt is launched.
== 2004 ==
* Fanart Central is created.
* acciobrain!, a Harry Potter Art site, is created.
* Artsy Fansons, a Hanson LiveJournal community, is created.
* November 9: Hansonicons, a LiveJournal community, is created.
== 2005 ==
* January: SheezyArt bans all adult artwork from their site.
* January: Fur Affinity is created as a reaction to the SheezyArt ban.
* February: y!Gallery is created as a reaction to the SheezyArt ban.
* July: Skeddios, a Hanson fan comic and fanart website, is created.
== 2006 ==
* May: y!Gallery bans anthro/furry art.
* Nabyn art community began operation.
== 2007 ==
* September 10: Pixiv beta version launched.
* The launch of Yuletart.
== 2009 ==
* Still Life is created, archiving old and new Starsky & Hutch fanart.
* Drawmelot, a Merlin Art community on Livejournal is launched.
== 2010 ==
* The K/S Art Project is published, collecting three decades worth of K/S fanart.
* October: fanart-recs on Dreamwidth is created.
== 2011 ==
* The great migration to Tumblr.
== 2013 ==
* Amino is created, predominantly attracting teen fanartists.
* May: SheezyArt closes down "temporarily", administrators planning to rebuild the site, but in the end it never reopened.
== 2016 ==
* y!Gallery goes offline due to hacking, thousands of works disappear.
* Elfwood goes offline, 32,000+ works disappear.
* September: Nabyn art community shut down by owner.
== 2017 ==
* The Road So Far Archive is created, archiving more than 30,000 Supernatural works by active and deactivated artists on Tumblr.
* Writscrib is launched, aiming to be a Tumblr alternative where artists can earn tips on their posts.
* ambiance.gallery is created by former staff members of SheezyArt.
* Conversations About Hanson is first posted on Tumblr.
== 2018 ==
* August 30: Writscrib shuts down due to "not enough interest or revenue".
* December: Tumblr bans NSFW photos/illustrations; artists leave the site in droves. (See Tumblr NSFW Content Purge.) Twitter, Instagram, Patreon, Mastodon and Pillowfort attract some of the migrating Tumblr artists, but there's fandom-wide discussion about the lack of a proper alternative.
* Artrise launches, promising a site similar to DeviantArt but without the restrictions. Activity ceases in November 2021.
== 2020 ==
* July: Patreon's policies regarding off-site NSFW content cause a lot of NSFW artists to leave.
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