GIFT ART FOR @bonbonbatty !

Commission. Happy b-day, @bonbonbatty !

Grubba's a great boyfriend because he can sometimes turn into a much larger boyfriend. Just don't ask how he's doin' that.

genuinely mystified by the kind of person that would produce this image and not realize "oh, I'm being fucking ridiculous"

personally, when I see someone press a heart-shaped button to denote that They Like My Work, the conclusion I draw is that They Like My Work. but perhaps I'm the crazy one, and I should instead be taking it as one step above "shooting me three times in the head."

#liking it is a bookmark for them. no one else sees it. it's a nod and acknowledgement my work was seen. clearly not good enough for#them to share. not good enough to bring me more business more clients more customers. how does that like button help the artist#or help the writer? it doesn't. call me cynical if you want but i've been here long enough to know the like button is only a bookmark.

listen. I get it. I am also Out Here, chronically unemployed and trying to make ends meet by monetizing my music. I also get frustrated and demoralized when something I worked hard on fails to gain traction.

that being said:

this attitude can only ever corrode your connection to your own work. "not good enough to bring me more business" - I'm sorry, but strangers on social media do not owe you free marketing. meanwhile, what you call "only a bookmark" signifies that your work appealed to them, even if they didn't reblog it. isn't that the fucking point of doing any of this? to make someone else's day a little richer, or to make them feel seen?

to put it in simpler terms:

if you consider someone liking your work "meaningless," why are you making art in the first place?

really baffling phenomenon on this post: a significant number of people are reblogging it, and then disagreeing with me in the tags without actually adding any of that to the post itself

I feel like it undermines your argument a little when you don't even seem to understand the Basic Functionality of a reblog. just my 2 cents

No one is morally obliged to give you free dopamine or exposure. It’s okay to prefer reblogs to like—I know I do! But it’s absurd to throw a fit about it.

#as an artist & writer i get it! i love reblogs!#but i actively DO NOT reblog posts that include guilt trippy little segments about likes being worthless#its social media not a morally charged email spam chain for gods sake

Art Fight attack #1 is @bonbonbatty's Murmur!! someone out there is stepping on a lego right now