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.
Part of breaking away from a capitalist system is reclaiming concepts and practices that capitalism would have you believe can’t be separated from it, like small artisans making and selling goods themselves.
Whether or not commerce can or should exist under socialism is a whole other lengthy conversation that I’m not remotely equipped to have but let’s think a little bigger here, at least.
Plus? The book I’ve got coming out in early 2024? I worked hard on it (still working on it as editing deadlines loom ominously in the background). I’m proud of it. I want people to read it. Why shouldn’t I talk a bunch about it and tell people where to buy it, and ask them to spread the word about it? What’s wrong with that?
AHA ONCE MORE THIS THREAD WAS ABOUT PROMOTING MYSELF ALL ALONG, I TRICKED YOU AGAIN *smokebomb*
Sunny Moraine
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