This will probably get ignored but I think in the 00s we had more partnerships between artists doing these big anthologies with lots of stories from different artists, newbie artists could coast with the popularity of older artists, fans could (maybe?) get more of their bucks buying just one big doujin that buying one for each artists, I think the profit between artists was bigger and ofc you could befriend more artists to be in other anthologies or smaller ones and it goes on.

But today I think we are seeing less because that type of partnership isn't that important: you have more ways to contact other artists and make trades and I think today the scene is probably more hungry for artists to have profit just for themselves: commissions on Skeb or privately, patreons/fanbox, booths, etc and you don't need to start with an anthology or partnership with older artists, today its easier to just publish your stuff on Pixiv and Twitter, probably make a lot of fanarts of famous furry characters modern and old and then you can start (trying) to make some profit.

But yeah this talk makes more sense with the Kemono scene, the western furry is another beast (heh) but still I think the eastern scene got a lot of influence on how to deal with the internet later vs how they did it in the early days.