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Six Fanarts, also known as #SixFanarts, #6Fanarts or #SixFanartsChallenge, is a Twitter Challenge which involves artists asking their followers for characters to draw, with the artist then drawing fan arts of any six of the nominated characters.

Origin

On March 17, 2020, Twitter^[1] user mcapriglioneart shared the template for the challenge, asking her followers for six characters from popular media to draw fan art of and suggesting they do the same (shown below). The post received over 1,700 likes and 370 retweets in one month.

Spread

In the following weeks, the trends saw a moderate spread on social media, with the challenge gaining significant recognition after several popular artists joined the challenge in early April 2020. On April 9, 2020, Kekeflipnote ^[2] shared his own take of the trend, gaining over 14,400 likes and 1,400 retweets in one week (shown below, left). On April 12th Twitter user uejini^[3] (Also known as Gashi-gashi) uploaded his submission which got over 10,600 likes and 1,600 retweets in five days (shown below, center). On April 14th Twitter user Nikingply^[4] did the challenge scoring 12,700 likes and 1,900 retweets in two days (shown below, right).

#SixDinoarts

The popularity of the trend spawned several subformats of the challenge, with #SixDinoarts being the most notable variation. Those participating in the subchallenge ask their followers for names of dinosaurs or other ancient animals to draw fan art of. This subtrend launched on April 6, 2020, when Twitter^[5] user R_Dart shared a modified template on her twitter, gaining over 280 likes and multiple responses (the tweet and additional examples shown below).

Various Examples

Templates

Search Interest

External References