1st sketch after 7-ish years?
say what, I’ve been trying to gain followers on my main twitter (https://twitter.com/tbgkaru) so i can broaden my horizons and impact. if i get to 11k, i will post monthly larry (+some other ship depending on demand, willing to do bts too) art/comics. if i hit 15k followers, i will be doing art requests ♥
(mind you, my twitter is game/show oriented, so all 1D/bts stuff will be on this tumblr. still, i’ve been trying to reach higher numbers for so long after tumblr closed off my account for NSFW content on it. lost my 50k people and now even with 9k on twitter, most of my peeps are very passive. please help me reach my goal and i will reward you ♥)
Do you think Louis will ever get his "shot" in the music industry?
Short answer: No
Long answer: Aside from the massive 1D fame of yesteryear...Most likely no, the damage is already done from the past decade and I know this isn’t what people want to hear but lets look at patterns.
If Louis’ music was covered and cared for as much as his personal life then yeah, he’d definitely get “his shot.”
Unless Louis gets a whole new staff and team behind him whose sole focus is on his success and investing money and time into him then we’re not really going to see him making waves in the industry or become a household name. There would need to be such a monumental switch and huge advertising push that would have to go on for years for him to get bumped to an “A-Lister” and/or someone taken seriously and respected in the music industry.
I know he has said time and time again he doesn’t care about making hits or being popular but to me that reads he’s maybe given up on that (obviously I don’t know if that’s true) but from years of being brushed off, passed from label to label, and given almost no opportunities, I’d definitely change my tune about fame.
I know he’s presenting himself as a “no fucks given mini Gallagher,” but there are myriad ways to have that persona and still “make it big” it’s done by so many bands and artists just look at Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, etc.
I don’t think Louis is striving to be an A-Lister at all but he’s not being respected by his label/managers/publicists/etc in any capacity.
Your giveaway is a bit weird: the amount of kudos a fic receives is not indicative of its quality. Secondly, it should be about having fun participating in a fandom event. Artificially inflating kudos won't make authors feel better if they felt like their fics were being ignored before, it'll just skew all the numbers and the fans trying to win the giveaway won't care about the fics, they'll have ulterior motives. Just unfair to authors, they deserve kudos for publishing but this seems dishonest
Since our response is very long, it’s under a cut.
1) Where did we suggest that kudos = quality? When was anything like that mentioned? You’re the only person saying anything like this. Your perception of kudos is skewed and makes little sense with the explanation we’ve already provided (and provided by AO3), which is that kudos = recognition of an achievement. You say that writers deserve kudos for publishing, but then not in this way, even though “this way” is simply helping to encourage and motivate readers of the fest to check out more of the fics and to help spread the word about the fics, which helps gain even more readers. We always encourage readers to reblog or RT fics and leave kudos, and we’re doing the exact same thing this year and promoting the fics in the same way. There is just a possible reward for those readers who go above and beyond and take the time and effort required to check out all of the fics in this fest of incredible writers.
2) People can have fun participating in a fandom event and still deserve to have people reading and enjoying their fics. Many people do join fests because it provides an opportunity to reach a new audience and receive promotion from other accounts (and there’s nothing wrong with that AT ALL, so we’re not sure why you’re acting like that’s somehow a bad thing), but considering this giveaway was just announced and nobody signed up for this fest because of it, we’re not sure how having a giveaway somehow means that people aren’t participating for fun and are only participating for kudos or attention.
3) Our anons seem hyperfixated on kudos for some reason, but more important is the reblogs and RTs, which help to spread the word about fics so that more people are able to see them and read them. Even if somebody doesn’t have time to read a fic, when they reblog it to one of their accounts, people who follow them have the chance to see it. Both of the mods of this fest are writers and we LOVE when people help spread the word about our fics because that can make a huge difference at finding more people who will read and enjoy the works we put so much effort into. We’ve never encountered authors who are upset or angry or somehow feel like they’ve been cheated because people reblogged or RTed their fics.
4) We’re in a fandom where many people read fics, but the kudos, reblogs, RTs, and comments do not always reflect that because people forget or don’t prioritize it. This giveaway is simply a way to encourage people who are already reading many of these fics to give all of them a chance in a fest where, under normal circumstances, they may skip over some in favor of prompts they were looking forward to or authors they already know. This isn’t a handful of fics that any random person would just flip through in two days so they can receive a prize. There are likely going to be 70-80 fics and they will be posted over the course of months. The people who will be participating in this giveaway are mainly people who are already interested in the fics and excited about the fest.
5) We’ve heard from numerous authors who are excited about the giveaway, and particularly newer authors who may be skipped over in favor of more well-established authors, because they feel like it gives their fics more of a chance to be seen and appreciated by people. If you’re an author in the fest who is concerned about the giveaway, you can feel free to reach out to us off anon and we can discuss it. But the decision of certain anons to make a giveaway that encourages - 1) hyping authors and 2) spreading the word about fics - into something malicious, harmful, and unfair toward authors seems rather exaggerated and not based in reality.
I know that it’s the tendency of this fandom to make everything into a debate and something to be angry and upset about it, but considering this is just a fic fest and all we’re trying to do is help our authors receive the appreciation and recognition that they deserve, this response is......bizarre to say the least. It feels like some people are misinterpreting things and intentionally twisting everything to make it into something negative.
We’re happy to hear from participants off anon with any concerns and if it becomes a huge problem, we’ll cancel the giveaway, but it seems unfortunate to cancel a giveaway that is solely intended to encourage readers of the fest to check out the fics and help spread the word about them.
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