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Maybe I'm out of touch cause I don't post any of my art, but is this a common thing?
This is the same reason the comic and fanfic were discontinued.
Do these guys need constant validation or is liking and re-blogging really not good enough?
Although maybe allowing comments would help.
Maybe people should just start copy pasting posts from this thread as comments, I'm sure that'd be just the feedback they need.
These people don't make their art, stories, ect. because they're passionate about making them, they make them because they want internet clout.
If you're not an intense part of the hivemind and contributing to the nest, then you must be abandoned and laid to rest amongst the cretins who dared to not do enough work for the collective.
That's basically all it is: you don't want likes or numbers to go up anymore, you want a fandom. You want people to know this is the next big thing in media, naysayers be damned; that you have a legion at your beck and call ready to serve you and defend you because you are just that narcissistic. And it can't be just anybody: it needs to be an audience you shares only your beliefs about the world.
Problem with Lily is she takes even that to an extreme and no one wants to validate her or her shitty comic, except for a small audience that she doesn't want nor does what she wants them to do to support it.
Honestly, I think you're on point. Not too long ago Tumblr was THEE website to go to if you were a budding artist looking to get your work out there, instead of the borderline empty husk it is now. People don't exaggerate when they say that people like Pendleton Ward and Rebecca Sugar pulled a good chunk of their teams to work on Adventure Time and SU from Tumblr, which is insane to think about now looking back now (seriously, imagine getting your foot into the animation industry, not through years of school & practice, but through a lucky Tumblr post?). But those days are way over and done. Tumblr being long past its glory days aside, most big media companies have learnt their lesson about highering people based on what they posted on the Internet and nothing else.
Anyways, seeing how much time Lily sinks into making her Wiki's and coaxing artists to draw for her, it's clear that you're right in that she wants one of her "projects" to take off and be the next big thing on the Internet. Of course, Lily (and infact almost everyone else talked about here) is doing everything wrong in regards to possibly going about this.
Like, do these people think fame happens over night? Or that if you just keep mindlessly churning out content that it'll eventually get popular? "Quality over Quantity" is a saying for a reason, and while I wouldn't recommend pulling a George RR Martin and spend 10 years making a single freaking book because you want it to be absolutely perfect, you should take some time to make sure you put some real effort into what you make, maybe even experiment and try new things. People not getting engaged with your art/ story/ whatever? Take a break from posting shit as fast as you can, slow down, and try to improve your craft a bit! Watch some Youtube video's, seriously look over your work and see what was good and what was bad about it, even compare it to stuff you made a year or even a few months ago. Yeah, that stuff's a bitch to do, but it pays off in the end, unlike spending 8 hours bitching on social media.
I think that's half these peoples problems. They spend a shit load of time on social media "talking" about their art/ story/ whatever (along with just generally dicking around mostly, but they'll just lump that in with "working") and act like it's helping them develop their craft even though they're just pissing away their lives. I don't care what anyone tells you, no one got popular by posting social justice BS on various social media websites for 8 hours a day.
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