Ok, time to get a bit serious here.
Two days ago Alexandrie contacted me with this 'XPutnik' wall for a joke. It was my Sputnik wallpaper modified with the XP logo and lettering. When I saw it I couldn´t stop laughing and I uploaded it as a joke to all the XP stuff we have here at Wincusto lately. After that I saw Jafo´s post and we started to fool around trying to get Nicole with the worst wall ( I won, mine is worse than his:) )
To my surprise, that wall went to 1º in the top 10, I went speechless!!! I mean, that wall is the worst thing I´ve ever made since I learned to draw a cow when I was fourteen. At first I was amused, now I feel a bit sad with all this. I have some good walls here that took many hours of work and didn´t even make the top 10 and this piece of crap gets 1º. THIS IS SAD.
From this I can make some conclusions and I´ll share them with you fellow skinners/artists just to express what I feel with this whole thing. It is not my intention to offend XP skinners or users that like and download this kind of stuff.
1- People do like swirls, lens flares and other crappy filters that only take a good graphic app and 5 seconds to do. You don´t need to have any kind of skills, and don´t need to be creative.
2- If you want to show up in the top 10, the only thing you need to do is to imitate the latest Microsoft OS look.
3- If you do this imitation in blue, the possibilities to get into the top 10 increase considerably.
4- This XP stuff is overlooking good skinners/artists that try, and are creative in their work. the chances to get into the top ten are diminished if you don´t do XP related work or aren't a very popular skinner.
5-All this XP madness is being a negative to this site and should be moderated. There is no creativity, no skills needed and as this friend of mine told me, it wouldn´t happen at old skinz.org.
6- I´ll delete my XPutnik wallpaper now, my intention was to do an ironic joke and by the number of downloads it is very clear that my point here was not accomplished.
7- Nicole is mine, she´s actually in the kitchen making us a lasagna and we´ll go to a movie later:)))))