Emerging Japanese homoerotic paintings, illustrations to share The site uses a web 2.0 approach, where each participant has their own homepage and can rate their work.

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pixiv is a virtual community formed mainly by Japanese artists, the main body by pixiv Co. Ltd. is a social network service site specializing in illustration art.

Pixiv was first launched in September 10, 2007 by Takahiro Uetani and others as the first beta version.

As of May 2010, pixiv has over 2 million members, 11 million entries, and receives over 20,000 original entries every day.

And in January 2010, the site was visited an average of about 340,000 times a day; in May 2010, the statistics averaged about 1.5 billion visits per month.

pixiv aims to provide a place where artists can publish their illustrations and respond to other users' opinions through a rating system, with the original images submitted by users as the centerpiece of the site, supplemented by tags, bookmarks, responses, rankings and other features to form a social network with its own characteristics.

The advantage of Pixiv is that the author will put in large pictures with high resolution. Not only Japanese famous illustrators, but also Chinese and Korean drawing masters meet here to communicate with each other. Even if you don't know Japanese, it's cool to just look at the pictures and collect them!

The biggest feature of Pixiv is the keyword search, each picture will be tagged with a tag, so you can search for the tag you are interested in to find pictures to exchange!

If you publish your work in Pixiv, it will be displayed on the home page as long as it is newly posted. But because the user volume is very large, about every second there will be N new works uploaded, so it is almost impossible to keep your work on the home page for more than 20 seconds!