Something I've noticed from seeing design markets come and go. I remember when Behance was THE place to be. It was filled with real client work on top or if it was fake work, it was highly involved (the Facebook redesign). Then the fake concepts, templates, and free design files over took the #1 spots and the client work fell off as those things gathered more attention. Clients would go to Behance and just see that type of work, geared towards other designers, instead of the type of work geared towards clients. There was some incredible work on Behance, it was just starting to get hidden. This is around the time Dribbble came. With it's invite only system, Dribbble was filled with real client work from the big companies and fun start-ups with the best work on top every morning you checked the homepage. The best of the best designers were there. This was also when the gold rush in design really started to happen. Then, as more came, it got filled with fake work, templates, and free design files that over took it. That along with really bad leadership, Dribbble fell. Now, hardly anyone that helped build it up uses it anymore and from the sound of it, they are going to push their current customers away even more soon. Twitter use to be a place where the real work shined through as well, but as we're seeing now, X is starting to become filled with fake work, templates, and free design files. Now, I don't think X will fall - it's too awesome for bigger things. But I do think it's possible for a new thing to arise where designers can get together and show off some real work to get real clients IF and it's a big IF...IF our industry can get back to where it was where ACTUAL design matters and we're not splitting up into a 100 different small parts of the job that one designer is suppose to be able to do. I'm aware that sounds prestigious, but that's why these other places became so good for getting real work - the quality was awesome and there was no guess work from clients on what the designer could actually do for a real client. You see design now days and even though it may look good, you have no idea if it's actually theirs or if any thought went into it other than "will it get me likes or featured." Everything is riddled with bad type, margins, UX and all kinds of design mistakes yet other designers rally on because we're throwing that out the window and caring less and less about good design and more and more about "please follow and give me likes." We're back to designing for designers instead of designing for clients. And every time this has happened, the market fell and most of those designers ended up with no paying work. Fake work is awesome. You need to do it. I do it. I did it. It's effective. It's powerful. Just don't let it be all that you do. Don't let it be the only goal. The ultimate goal is real client work or real side projects. You know, things that bring income. It's not followers on a platform that may or may not be here. X isn't going away but you may if you don't start proving you can make money.