It’s really interesting to me the degree to which some people on here just sorta… don’t seem to know how most creatives operate online.
Seen multiple people assuming that if an account does promotion that might/must be ALL it does, which is like… Sure, that happens, but there’s generally a broad consensus that that behavior is a no-no and won’t attract people to what you’re doing. People like that tend to get shunned.
And also this weird confusion between capitalism and commerce, which are related but not interchangeable, and a refusal to make a distinction between a corporation advertising a product and a small time creator trying to get the word out about something they made with care and real passion.
It’s like… I feel like we aren’t the ones who have been brainwashed a bit by capitalism here? “Brainwashed” isn’t a great term but I haven’t yet had coffee and nothing else is coming to me.
@dynamicsymmetry I agree. I usually use the term conditioned by capitalism when talk about the sensory overload of corporate marketing.
And if I am interested in someone I tend to be interest what there making (especially if it's a artist) and by the nature of how capitalism works that normally means what there selling.
Art is a way for us for providing context for ourselves and if they dont know who we are (ironically) there is no context.
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