20 Facts About Pixiv

Pixiv is a Japanese online community for artists.

Pixiv aims to provide a place for artists to exhibit their illustrations and get feedback via a rating system and user comments.

Formal events are periodically held on Pixiv to gather participation in formal events revolving around a common theme depending on the time of year; these events revolve around the user-submitted artwork.

All of the events are for members of Pixiv to meet offline in user-organized events to showcase art, dojinshi, or anything else Pixiv-related.

Only Pixiv-related events can be organized in the event community, and if any event which is found to be unsuitable will be removed.

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Between February 27 and March 1,2009, Pixiv held their first convention, Pixiv Festa, at the East Design Festa Gallery in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan.

Pixiv held an event called Pixiv Market on November 15,2009, at the Tokyo Big Sight in Ariake, Tokyo, Japan.

In October 2008, Pixiv Inc launched an oekaki Internet forum called Drawr, which anyone with a Pixiv account can use.

Unlike Pixiv, there is no search feature as there are no tags available, and it is not required to sign-up or login to Drawr to browse the entries.

In collaboration with Twitter, Pixiv Inc launched a web service in July 2009 called DrawTwit, which anyone with a Twitter account can use and allows users to draw artwork and post them to Twitter.

In collaboration with Livedoor, a blogging service called Pixiv Blog was launched on April 23,2009, which anyone with a Pixiv account can use.

An oekaki chat service called Pixiv Chat was launched on December 15,2009, for users to draw oekaki art while in a chat room.

In collaboration with Enterbrain, Pixiv began to produce an online magazine entitled Pixiv Tsushin on April 20,2009.

Also in collaboration with Enterbrain, a magazine titled Quarterly Pixiv will begin publication on May 28,2010, containing material similar to that in Pixiv Tsushin.

Pixiv launched Pawoo, an instance of the decentralized open source social media network Mastodon, for its artist community.

In July 2019, Pixiv announced it would shutdown Pawoo Music on August 31, and end support for Pawoo's mobile Mastodon application.

When Pixiv users complained that their work was being used inappropriately, Pixiv took no action to punish or suspend the accounts of Chaos Lounge or Takanori Katagiri.

Traffic from the influx of frustrated Pixiv users has increased by as much as 50 times the normal rate for these sites, causing many of them to buckle under the weight of new users and go offline for maintenance.

On July 27,2011, Pixiv formally apologized on their website, promising to improve their management practices in the future.

On May 30,2022, Pixiv released a statement of regret, acknowledging that disciplinary action was being taken.