The original meaning for the board description, people shared their art publicly and nobody was fighting over this "fame" that people are doing right now, if you could say, it was peaceful, not a lot of shops and the common day art hoarding users around here.
There were users showing their art to get critique or just showing it because they wanted to express themselves, nobody made multiple threads like there is now based on similar topics on hand, it gives the impression of "Oh, my thread is on page 3...better make a new one" instead of checking the pages or atleast going on their page and see their recently made threads.
Specifically, when shops came up, they were very picky on doing orders for the same people more than once unless they know they're reliable and will appreciate the artists effort that they're being given, these days, people use other peoples work as sheer references and original pieces are just going to waste because they don't qualify as "good" for reference sheets at the very least.
Art collectors were a thing too, they didn't go into every single thread with "good" art and spam them with multiple requests or came back multiple times for more drawings, these days you'll walk into a new thread with "good" art and you'll see the same people, all the time and it's just literally boring since they abuse TBT's shop to get quick on the expensive restocks and sell them, repeat and you'll have a fortune of TBT bells.
Lets just say, it was completely different than it was now.
