I struggle with this as well. Like, I'm not craving attention, but it feels bad to not get any hint that my work doesn't stink, especially since a lot of my stuff is pretty niche. I've definitely slowed down my art production because of it, but I can't stay away for long.
So I guess my question is, to all the artist/content creators out there, how do you work through this? How do you un-anchor the value of your work from social media? How do you find motivation to keep going when the perceived feedback is... absent?
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Social media plays with validation/emotions so much, it's kinda frightening. Regarding your art, I totally *totally* understand how difficult that's gotta be to operate in a different niche but I do want to say, I very much admire your dedication and skill!
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I don't know.
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Because tone is often lost via text, I want to be clear that I'm saying this completely honest and earnestly: Thank you Mr. Rossi, I appreciate the candid truth
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I’ve been asking myself this a lot lately. I don’t think it’s wrong to want validation - it’s the human condition. Because social media commodifies everything, we lose that bit of our humanity to the whim of trends. It’s frustrating to say the least...
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The way I’ve been trying to combat it lately is just really digging deep and figuring out what I truly enjoy, and making art of that. Life is short and I’m going to spend it being content with my art even if I don’t get a second glance from the internet.
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1) Personally I focus on telling myself that progressing and working on pieces is for my own benefit first and foremost. It's really validating to get a lot of attention on a piece, but like you said that attention can be fickle on Twitter due to algorithms and such. So I try to
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2)remind myself frequently that working on art is a constant progression and it's of value to myself to keep working on it, even when there's not a lot of love on it from Twitter. I also know I have a hard time valuing myself so that's definitely my perspective on it
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Twitter is definitely not the best place for art as TLs quickly change and you can miss something if you log in a few hours too late - or during a real life event that causes people to spam tweet about something else. This is, imo, the main reason why art gets ignored.
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For example I would have missed your question if
@enipnion didn't reply to it and you replied to her, bringing the topic up in my TL ;-) That's also why RTs (from the artist or from others) are very important. Scheduled tweets can help you - I'm using TweetDeck for that, I can + - 3 more replies
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