#the introduction of social media to the artistic process was insidious and cruel

[imidori-ya]

Screaming crying scratching at the walls of my enclosure because it’s now somehow necessary to not just use social media but excel at it to even be considered for any of my dreams jobs??!?! Since when do I need 30k followers to be good at something other than a popularity contest?? Why does follower count matter to how good of an artist, writer, or general creator I am? I shouldn’t be required to know how to market and pander to the masses when all I want to do is create art! I just want to make things! I don’t care about selling them to the most people ever! I don’t care about notoriety! I’m a creator! I. JUST. WANT. TO. CREATE!!!

#sorry for the rant #it just makes me so mad that there is no more creation without gratuitous self marketing #I see so many posts from artists (tattoo artists especially) where they’re talking about not getting hired until they have 30k+ followers #this is insane!!! thousands of followers from all over will not directly contribute to your business outside of marketing #which should be the studios burden. not the artists #you want customers for your shop? Pay for an ad #it’s not your artists job to serve as your main source of marketing #the same with writing books #it used to be you turned in your manuscript- got chosen- and the publishers would market it for you #now it’s all about clout #your following #publishers are actually choosing books based on follower count bc they want a guaranteed sell #they’ll choose these books in favor of actual well written pieces bc the author had no following #it’s disgusting #the introduction of social media to the artistic process was insidious and cruel #you think this isn’t negatively affecting the quality of todays literature? #go look at the sun and it’s shade #horribly written book #no clear world building or any real sense of plot or genuine storytelling #but does it have thousands of sales! the author had thousands of followers on booktok #so of course it’s good! #right? #RIGHT?!?!