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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Replying to @TheFussypants
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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Replying to @SaradoraArt @TheFussypants
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 +1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @SaradoraArt @TheFussypants
schedule a tweet to get send when I'm sleeping but NA people are up. Now, about un-anchoring and motivation... I could naively say "do art for yourself and don't care about others" but I know very well that's not how humans work. You do great art and it's normal that you want +
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Replying to @SaradoraArt @TheFussypants
recognition for it. There's nothing wrong with that - denying it would even be hypocritical because then why would you show it publicly?! I don't really have a good advice apart from "keep creating". How many likes your drawing will get doesn't reflect how good it is.
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That is a really significant point about the time zones, and something I often forget myself. And I've heard of TweetDeck before but I haven't really looked into that, I'm definitely thinking I should give that a shot. Thank you for the advice!!
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