lettuce

i've never really been the person to care about my performance on social media that much, but this is the second time now i've dedicated a shitload of time to a longer hand-animated project and seen it get completely overlooked. even on tiktok, i get a pretty decent amount of interaction on my usual image posts, but i can only assume this post was shadowbanned(?) or something, because only my two closest followers actually saw the video. my fault for drawing nips i guess. i dont anticipate videos to do amazing on here or bsky since they're not video-focused platforms but they ended up doing far worse than i even thought they would. it's overall disheartening and makes me want to work with animation less

im not gonna harp on it like crazy, im glad to be done and want to get back to making more simple one-off things for fun. and it's nobody's fault either. maybe i didnt make it engaging enough or whatever; i didnt make this with the purpose of grabbing people's attention right off the bat, and it takes a moment before anything really even happens. but i was really hoping to reach more people than just the few friends that bothered to watch it at all.