Panel 1: Attention content creators.
Panel 2: Being part of a fandom can be very exciting and fulfilling, but also time-consuming and sometimes even a disappointing part of our day. And why is that?
As a fandom, there’s plenty of strangers working to please others by doing something they enjoy, like drawing fan art or writing fanfiction. We all communicate and share our ideas and talents FOR FREE, but big fandoms brings different people, personalities clash and sometimes it can end up in unnecessary harassment with the fact that you’re not even getting anything in exchange for your work on top of that. No one can keep doing what they enjoy forever with this approach.
Panel 3: I’m an artist myself, been creating for different fandoms for years and years now, mostly for free with exceptional attempt of commissions or Patreon. The problem with those art that to not be underpaid for your work, you have to charge an amount that most of us might not have, as we’re poor and struggling with steady income ourselves, or in Patreon’s case, it’s smaller amounts with a long time support and that, again, can be hard to manage for some of us.
And that’s only talking artists! What about our lovely writers that gives us heart-breaking stories and sends us on new adventures daily? How hard is it for them to earn something by doing what they love, by doing something WE love? Extremely hard.
Panel 4: So how do we deal with all of that?
Me and my best friend, who’s also a writer and a content creator, decide to come up with a alternative way to what Tumblr tries to be, but failed somewhere along the way.
Site works with ‘Chips’, a digital currency that you purchase with your money and put them into hands of those who you think deserve them - artists, writers, aesthetics or edits makers, musicians, vloggers. Yes, anyone can be given Chips if people enjoy their content and they don’t manually turn off chipping. The fact that you can chip only small amounts like a few cents doesn’t give you the idea of a big numbers that you can’t afford, and it helps the author anyway, it’s a win win! Think of it as tipping a kind waitress.
Panel 5: Creating public and private groups can save you the stress of bumping into someone who might not like what you do or how you think. It’s there for your comfort, you can share your works with only a circle of followers you know will enjoy it and you can also separate fandoms you make content for, saving you the struggle of creating ‘side blogs’ while still having your main dash and tag searching/tracking available to look for people. Think of it as something between twitter and discord.
Panel 6: Zero harassment tolerance: One of Tumblr’s biggest problems is in it’s approach to callout culture and hateful messages. The block and report buttons are given by default, once you block *puff* the person is gone, you won’t see any posts from them and they can’t contact you. Reporting will always be looked into if source of the problem is included, so there won’t be anything as reporting someone you just disagree with and them having problems.
Panel 7: I definitely didn’t mention everything and if there’s more questions, we have tumblr page opened for asks and are willing to answer as soon as possible: http://writscrib.tumblr.com.
Our team isn’t only me and my friend though. While I’m working on the visual side of things and my writer friend takes care of the Q&A and the licence and law matters, to help us make this work, we hired a programmer to set up the site as soon as possible.
With that being said, we need to help raise a fund to be able to paid said programmer, as couldn’t do it by our own - hence why we started an Indiegogo page. If you liked what you read, please support us and make something good happen for ll the fandom creators out there.
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