Powerful

been doing some thinking on what it means to be an internet artist in 2024 and it kind of sucks tbh. there's so much focus on numbers, but numbers aren't fulfilling. what really matters to me is community engagement, or the actual response i get from my audience. a number (be it a like or reblog) doesn't tell me anything. but tags do, postulating about the meaning of my drawings in the tags or my inbox or replies means something. but you can't get those kind of thoughtful comments without reblogs. and then, those thoughtful comments are SO few and far in between, it's genuinely kind of depressing. like, let's say you post a drawing and it gets 100 notes. great! 90 of them are likes and 10 of them are reblogs. MAYBE one person will tag it with any of their personal thoughts. and that's a big maybe. even small comments like "cute!" or "i love this so much omg" are worth more than silence. idk. i've been on the internet for a really long time and this new wave of reclusiveness from audiences just kind of sucks. it's demotivating and isolating and it takes a lot of the joy out of creating. when you think to yourself, "man, i bet they'll love this drawing!" only to have like, two people tops say as much... when u post ur art online for free like i do, that engagement is literally The Only Thing u get out of it. so it's sad to watch in real time as it becomes sparser and sparser. whatever. who cares (i do.)

I’ve had a few posts get to 70-80-90 notes and I’m happy that a lot of people see them but so far the post with a response I’m most happy with was a drawing of a longhair slickster from oxygen not included getting brushed, which got a little over 50 notes but had the highest number of people freaking out about it in the reblogs, I think primarily because it hit the core of the active ONI tumblr community, which isn’t that big but is very dedicated to the game. I think it also helps that the game is rather old, way past its peak popularity, and so they have likely been on tumblr for a while

This option is real and it’s on the blog settings page below the options that control whether your blog shows up in google or tumblr searches. If you haven’t touched it yet it’s disabled, and the images and text on your blog can be sold by tumblr.

Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.

I know I’m slow I’ve had a busy uhhh 5 months

When he slid and held the rock up I thought he was doing a thumbs up

Wtf why does this video not abide by my phone’s brightness. It’s always displayed like I have the brightness turned all the way up