Less of an unpopu - actually, you know what, hell with it. I’m feeling imposter syndrome BAD today and this has been annoying me all morning.
Social Media sucks, and it sucks that it’s necessary if you want to do anything creative to get noticed.
I’d like to branch into commissions, right? So obviously, I use my tumblr since it has my highest follower count to showcase my work. And then I make a twitter, and I have a DevArt and a growing ArtStation account. Here’s the thing - it took years to get my follower count to where it is, and it’s comparatively small to many other RPers and artists.
Twitter? Took a long time when I used it professionally to get a decent follower count. DeviantArt? Forget about it. I’ve found that platform basically useless and I’m probably going to drop it. Artstation is better but I’ve barely been on there a week so jury’s out, and I know it takes time to do anything with these tools.
Anyway - all of this is bugging me, and then today on Twitter I see, “Create art for YOURSELF! Your follower count and the number of likes and retweets you get don’t mean ANYTHING because you’re WONDERFUL and your art is VALID”. Which - cool? I mean, I get the intent here, and I appreciate it but man if it doesn’t suck to get that pat on the back from someone who has managed to crack the code when I feel like I’m shouting into a hurricane here.
Okay. /rant. I’ll get over this, and this may get deleted later but it was cathartic to say.