AutumnBH: traffic diversification has always been important. Always. It has never been a good idea to put all of your eggs in one basket.
As for our part, it's just one less site to pay for each month, and easy enough to mass delete links to the sites, whether it be Shemp, Snake, Bulldog or whomever (we linked to them from much more than your standard general tgp gallery -- ours are shared by many many users daily on social networks for example, indexed and ranked in search engines, etc). But it only takes a few seconds for us to mass delete all links to them. No skin off my teeth.
Either way, we're not really negatively affected as another site will want those links from us
