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So I was wondering whether anyone uses Instagram to post their wargaming hobby?
If you do, how do you find it? Do you post or just follow others?

I'm not a social media user at all so i'm not knowledgeable with this sort of thing, but what are peoples thoughts and opinions on it as a hobby platform?

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t.dot

Why not? It's a great way to showcase your work and connect with others. I love using hashtags to find other similar works, much like Pinterest, and it's a great way to get reference and inspiration.

   
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Nickin' 'ur stuff

I follow a lot of painters and there are some really talented ones. I enjoy Instagram as a tool for our hobby

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Maybe I should. I've got a twitter account for my blog that automatically updates when I have a new post.

   
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I tend to post either WIP or completed model pictures most days - be aware that the desktop interface is a PITA to try and rig a way to post from, so you're going to find it easier to post from your phone.

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

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You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
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Yeah, I use Instagram for both my own stuff and MEdge. It's a great source of inspiration, with so many great artists right there in the feed.

For showcasing stuff - building up a following is a slow process unless you're a GD-level painter, or a female painter who posts selfies... and it's ultimately more useful for getting virtual pats on the back than for actual feedback.


 Dysartes wrote:
be aware that the desktop interface is a PITA to try and rig a way to post from, so you're going to find it easier to post from your phone.

I just use Developer Mode in Firefox. Although how well that works in any given browser does seem to change with browser or IG platform updates... I was using Firefox for one account and Chrome for the other at one point, but then it stopped working properly in Chrome.

 
   
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Melbourne

Is it actually as simple as just taking and posting a photo? No "prep work" like posting here on Dakka?
Speaking of which, does anyone find that it takes away from their Dakkering, or are you able to easily split time between both (and probably other platforms as well)?


 insaniak wrote:
For showcasing stuff - building up a following is a slow process unless you're a GD-level painter, or a female painter who posts selfies...
Eh... So unless you're talented or pretty, you've got to whore yourself out a lot to get any where. Sounds about right, don't it?

and it's ultimately more useful for getting virtual pats on the back than for actual feedback.
That's quite telling of today's mindset isn't it. "Don't actually help me, just scratch me behind the ear and say good boy."

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 Snrub wrote:
Is it actually as simple as just taking and posting a photo? No "prep work" like posting here on Dakka?

Pretty much. Cropping and colour correcting and the like is generally still a good idea, where necessary - IG works best with square images either 1080x1080 or 2160x2160. You can include a description of what's going on in the pic, obviously, and including relevant tags is essential for getting people to actually see it. (Unlike Twitter and Facebook, where including a large number of tags is seen as spammy, on Instagram it's pretty much standard to include every conceivable applicable tag)


Speaking of which, does anyone find that it takes away from their Dakkering, or are you able to easily split time between both (and probably other platforms as well)?

Not really - I allow a specific time each week for posting to Facebook and Instagram, and 'do the rounds' periodically to network and check how posts are going, but that's separate to my Dakka time. Twitter is trickier, as to be really successful on there you have to invest a lot of time networking before anyone will even see your posts.


Eh... So unless you're talented or pretty, you've got to whore yourself out a lot to get any where. Sounds about right, don't it?

Pretty much



That's quite telling of today's mindset isn't it. "Don't actually help me, just scratch me behind the ear and say good boy."

I'm not sure how much of it is that (although quite probably at least some of it) but also simply a side effect of the way social media platforms have been set up. When you have a handy button that says 'I like this thing' actually taking the time to write words about it is a less attractive option. You just click the button and move on. It's made worse by the fact that the comments section really hasn't been set up to allow an easy conversation flow, so it's worse than Facebook for trying to have an actual discussion with someone.

 
   
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Philadelphia

I've avoided Facebook and Twitter but I've been using IG for years. I went from a generic post food/fitness account to simply "cool wargaming/dnd stuff" I paint @stevefamine https://www.instagram.com/stevefamine/?hl=en


- Easy format to comment "hey man thats awesome" "What kit is that weapon from on that space marine"
- Easy to contact famous/top tier painters. Didnt expect Miniac/GMM/Tyson/GD winners to respond to DMs
- Livestreaming isnt terrible - but I started watching Malev and now his twitch recently
- Group chat in this app is really fluid/consistant. I use this over groupme or iMessage now for all of my friends
- Easy to upload, crop, edit, or do anything with
- Hashtag searching is great
- No walls of text, but you won't find many non-video tutorials (so youtube or Dakka/blog would be a better tutorial source)
- A fair few downsides, but a great mobile app for checking out what other wargamers are painting and working on

 Snrub wrote:
Is it actually as simple as just taking and posting a photo? No "prep work" like posting here on Dakka?
Speaking of which, does anyone find that it takes away from their Dakkering, or are you able to easily split time between both (and probably other platforms as well)?


 insaniak wrote:
For showcasing stuff - building up a following is a slow process unless you're a GD-level painter, or a female painter who posts selfies...
Eh... So unless you're talented or pretty, you've got to whore yourself out a lot to get any where. Sounds about right, don't it?

and it's ultimately more useful for getting virtual pats on the back than for actual feedback.
That's quite telling of today's mindset isn't it. "Don't actually help me, just scratch me behind the ear and say good boy."


Trying to post on dakkadakka on mobile and linking imgur images isn't the easiest thing to juggle. I post a photo a week or so on IG, but I post about the same on Dakka. Reddit is probably the best platform over both the proboard forums and instagram

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t.dot

 Snrub wrote:
Is it actually as simple as just taking and posting a photo? No "prep work" like posting here on Dakka?
Speaking of which, does anyone find that it takes away from their Dakkering, or are you able to easily split time between both (and probably other platforms as well)?


Meh I'm thankfully able to bounce around my various social media platforms pretty freely throughout the day (I'm an artist so I take regular creative/ergonomic breaks). YMMV, and how connected and how much time you want to spend on each is up to you.

I would recommend you get familiar with Pro mode on your phone's camera, and learn to play with some basic ISO and shutter speed settings. With a decent photobooth/lighting set up and a phone camera, you can take some pretty solid photos that require no real extra prep work (and you can crop in Instagram before posting).


 insaniak wrote:
For showcasing stuff - building up a following is a slow process unless you're a GD-level painter, or a female painter who posts selfies...
Eh... So unless you're talented or pretty, you've got to whore yourself out a lot to get any where. Sounds about right, don't it?


Sex sells.

How much you want to charge is really up to you . Just.....be careful when 'market testing'.

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London, UK

I've found Instagram has been a great way to motivate myself in tandem with the hobby blog I have here. The platform lets me write a progress post to ask for some feedback (I usually get some) or write some fluff to flesh out a finished model or whatever and add some depth. Even if no one reads it, it acts as a place to do some writing which I don't do normally.

I have a reasonable following on my Instagram so I like to do a #WarhammerWednesday thing to show off other people's work as well as getting my own name out there. Ideally, I'd like to try commission painting at some point so having a base to jump from might help quite a bit.

And just to give myself a wee plug, my instagram page is here: https://www.instagram.com/hoec_the_wanderer/

   
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I follow a few for the nice pictures. I'll get the names here later.

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Melbourne

Thanks for the responses, guys. Seems like it might be a useful tool worth investing some time into in the future.

I started by following the official warhammer account and that quickly spiraled out of control as I kept finding more GW employees.
I found the BL account too, but couldn't find one for FW. Do they have one?

Any suggestions for people to follow as well would be awesome.

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I'm not on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, but I do post wargaming photos on Flickr.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brothercastor/

Lots of good stuff on the GW group:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/gamesworkshop/pool/

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 Snrub wrote:
Any suggestions for people to follow as well would be awesome.


I'll start off with mine, though you can also visit my plog on here (see sig) for a lot of the same pictures - https://www.instagram.com/dysartes

I can also recommend a few other painters, most of whom I know via Twitch (this list got a little out of hand ):
Spoiler:

https://www.instagram.com/dodo_paints
https://www.instagram.com/canonmanjsy
https://www.instagram.com/thehonoured1st
https://www.instagram.com/beardygent
https://www.instagram.com/gamer_dad_nc
https://www.instagram.com/evalaina
https://www.instagram.com/pixielou85
https://www.instagram.com/mariobrzezin
https://www.instagram.com/doom_of_the_people
https://www.instagram.com/studio.j7
https://www.instagram.com/schnikkipaints
https://www.instagram.com/houndstoothminis
https://www.instagram.com/thebugking1
https://www.instagram.com/reiner72paints
https://www.instagram.com/m0rt75
https://www.instagram.com/byerley
https://www.instagram.com/malliuspaints
https://www.instagram.com/metalhead_lynsanity
https://www.instagram.com/blind_aggro
https://www.instagram.com/thetalentedtalon
https://www.instagram.com/electriceve
https://www.instagram.com/shoshiesminis
https://www.instagram.com/flikpaintsstuff
https://www.instagram.com/winterdynemodelling
https://www.instagram.com/januinevision

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

tneva82 wrote:
You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
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Nickin' 'ur stuff

 Snrub wrote:
Thanks for the responses, guys. Seems like it might be a useful tool worth investing some time into in the future.

I started by following the official warhammer account and that quickly spiraled out of control as I kept finding more GW employees.
I found the BL account too, but couldn't find one for FW. Do they have one?

Any suggestions for people to follow as well would be awesome.


you can also follow hashtags. #blanchitsu or #nightlords etc.

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 Snrub wrote:
So I was wondering whether anyone uses Instagram to post their wargaming hobby?
If you do, how do you find it? Do you post or just follow others?


Nope. But if it is anything like my experiences with other places it's just not worth it. You're stuff will get ignored for lowest common denominator stuff and terrible memes. It get depressing, you put all this effort into making, kitbashing and painting models and people either ignore them or just gak all over them. I deleted all of my minis from Reddit recently as frankly it's just not worth putting the effort in to only have it be ignored in favour of a literal lump of gak with some arm attached that a frankly dishonest community won't say what they really think of it.

You see someone come up with a cock and bull story about how it is their "first model" or "look what the wife with one arm and no eyes just painted" and people buy into their story. They're not interested in the model, just the bs someone has posted with it.

So, yeah- I personally wouldn't even bother as it will just end up ending badly.


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Nickin' 'ur stuff

 Grimtuff wrote:
 Snrub wrote:
So I was wondering whether anyone uses Instagram to post their wargaming hobby?
If you do, how do you find it? Do you post or just follow others?


Nope. But if it is anything like my experiences with other places it's just not worth it. You're stuff will get ignored for lowest common denominator stuff and terrible memes. It get depressing, you put all this effort into making, kitbashing and painting models and people either ignore them or just gak all over them. I deleted all of my minis from Reddit recently as frankly it's just not worth putting the effort in to only have it be ignored in favour of a literal lump of gak with some arm attached that a frankly dishonest community won't say what they really think of it.

You see someone come up with a cock and bull story about how it is their "first model" or "look what the wife with one arm and no eyes just painted" and people buy into their story. They're not interested in the model, just the bs someone has posted with it.

So, yeah- I personally wouldn't even bother as it will just end up ending badly.


Wow, you really must have made some terrible experiences wiht reddit/Instagram :(

I mean if you put in the effort anyways and convert paint etc. (which most of us do) then why don't just post it? it is not like you have anything to lose. And you don't need to upload any stuff, I use Intagram just to get inspiration etc. There are some incredibly talented guys on there, and it is always good to see other peoples work.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like soup. Now you put soup in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put soup into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now soup can flow or it can crash. Be soup, my friend. 
   
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Waaaghbert wrote:
 Grimtuff wrote:
 Snrub wrote:
So I was wondering whether anyone uses Instagram to post their wargaming hobby?
If you do, how do you find it? Do you post or just follow others?


Nope. But if it is anything like my experiences with other places it's just not worth it. You're stuff will get ignored for lowest common denominator stuff and terrible memes. It get depressing, you put all this effort into making, kitbashing and painting models and people either ignore them or just gak all over them. I deleted all of my minis from Reddit recently as frankly it's just not worth putting the effort in to only have it be ignored in favour of a literal lump of gak with some arm attached that a frankly dishonest community won't say what they really think of it.

You see someone come up with a cock and bull story about how it is their "first model" or "look what the wife with one arm and no eyes just painted" and people buy into their story. They're not interested in the model, just the bs someone has posted with it.

So, yeah- I personally wouldn't even bother as it will just end up ending badly.


Wow, you really must have made some terrible experiences wiht reddit/Instagram :(

I mean if you put in the effort anyways and convert paint etc. (which most of us do) then why don't just post it? it is not like you have anything to lose. And you don't need to upload any stuff, I use Intagram just to get inspiration etc. There are some incredibly talented guys on there, and it is always good to see other peoples work.


Because it just gets ignored. At that point you're just pissing into the wind. To see your work get ignored over and over again for rubbish just demoralises you. Why should I go to all the effort of taking pictures, uploading them to my Imgur, posting them then seeing some idiot post an Abaddon with no arms and watch the community go gaga over it?

I have this conversation on Reddit several times before and they look at my username and see the paltry amount of attention they get compared to what was posted and say "Don't give up. Post your work, it's great!" yet these are just hollow, hollow words as the same thing happens again and again.

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Meh, I still think this is a bit over the top. Of course you are basically competing against the content of thousand of others, but still.

To each their own, I guess. I love getting inspired or looking for ideas.

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t.dot

 Grimtuff wrote:
Because it just gets ignored. At that point you're just pissing into the wind. To see your work get ignored over and over again for rubbish just demoralises you. Why should I go to all the effort of taking pictures, uploading them to my Imgur, posting them then seeing some idiot post an Abaddon with no arms and watch the community go gaga over it?

I have this conversation on Reddit several times before and they look at my username and see the paltry amount of attention they get compared to what was posted and say "Don't give up. Post your work, it's great!" yet these are just hollow, hollow words as the same thing happens again and again.


You just gotta do it for yourself, man. If you go in with the expectation that you want thousands of views and likes and responses, maybe just 180 that expectation.

   
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 DV8 wrote:
 Grimtuff wrote:
Because it just gets ignored. At that point you're just pissing into the wind. To see your work get ignored over and over again for rubbish just demoralises you. Why should I go to all the effort of taking pictures, uploading them to my Imgur, posting them then seeing some idiot post an Abaddon with no arms and watch the community go gaga over it?

I have this conversation on Reddit several times before and they look at my username and see the paltry amount of attention they get compared to what was posted and say "Don't give up. Post your work, it's great!" yet these are just hollow, hollow words as the same thing happens again and again.


You just gotta do it for yourself, man. If you go in with the expectation that you want thousands of views and likes and responses, maybe just 180 that expectation.


I don't, but take a look at r/Warhammer40k and see some of the rubbish that makes the frontpage. I rest my case.

Do you know how utterly deflating it is to be met with radio silence (or worse, the silent downvote) after posting your work that you've been told is excellent in the past (and have people in awe over it IRL) to get just nothing, and then you see someone's terrible kitbash, that; you also cannot point out what can be improved on, as heaven forbid you constructively criticise someone's work in this hobby shoot past your because they've constructed some sob story and/or bs to go with it.

I don't give a feth that I might sound like I'm up my own backside here. I've decided they don't deserve to see my work after how I've been treated, and nothing is going to change that now. I've been bitten too many times.

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Nickin' 'ur stuff

 Grimtuff wrote:
 DV8 wrote:
 Grimtuff wrote:
Because it just gets ignored. At that point you're just pissing into the wind. To see your work get ignored over and over again for rubbish just demoralises you. Why should I go to all the effort of taking pictures, uploading them to my Imgur, posting them then seeing some idiot post an Abaddon with no arms and watch the community go gaga over it?

I have this conversation on Reddit several times before and they look at my username and see the paltry amount of attention they get compared to what was posted and say "Don't give up. Post your work, it's great!" yet these are just hollow, hollow words as the same thing happens again and again.


You just gotta do it for yourself, man. If you go in with the expectation that you want thousands of views and likes and responses, maybe just 180 that expectation.


I don't, but take a look at r/Warhammer40k and see some of the rubbish that makes the frontpage. I rest my case.

Do you know how utterly deflating it is to be met with radio silence (or worse, the silent downvote) after posting your work that you've been told is excellent in the past (and have people in awe over it IRL) to get just nothing, and then you see someone's terrible kitbash, that; you also cannot point out what can be improved on, as heaven forbid you constructively criticise someone's work in this hobby shoot past your because they've constructed some sob story and/or bs to go with it.

I don't give a feth that I might sound like I'm up my own backside here. I've decided they don't deserve to see my work after how I've been treated, and nothing is going to change that now. I've been bitten too many times.


Be that as it is, Instagram and reddit are still a great source of beautifully painted models, great tutorials etc. I'd recommend every painter to at least have a look at some stuff which is posted there. You don't even have to contribute to that content in any way to profit of it.

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Philadelphia

 Grimtuff wrote:
I don't, but take a look at r/Warhammer40k and see some of the rubbish that makes the frontpage. I rest my case.

Do you know how utterly deflating it is to be met with radio silence (or worse, the silent downvote) after posting your work that you've been told is excellent in the past (and have people in awe over it IRL) to get just nothing, and then you see someone's terrible kitbash, that; you also cannot point out what can be improved on, as heaven forbid you constructively criticise someone's work in this hobby shoot past your because they've constructed some sob story and/or bs to go with it.

I don't give a feth that I might sound like I'm up my own backside here. I've decided they don't deserve to see my work after how I've been treated, and nothing is going to change that now. I've been bitten too many times.



It's just small dopamine hits of validation. 40k nerds paint little toys and excitedly post on IG to show other nerds. This is on a social media platform designed for selling fit tea and pictures of abs. I chitpost and criticize painters all the time on the app and it's good to argue about techniques and styles. I've spent years as a terrible painter and only recently started looking to others for aid - which evolved me into a solid tabletop quality painter. We don't "deserve" to see your work? Did you use hashtags correctly?

I followed dozens of terrible painters and watched them improve over the past few years. I learned how to airbrush by direct messaging multiple big name painters or have asked questions to them on live streams. I love when Greenstuffworld or other companies post about what new product they've made and what other instagram members are working on projects with those tagged new projects. Seems like a great marketing tool and 100% made me look into smaller companies. I would have never stumbled across versatileterrain.co.uk 's custom 3d printed name plated without IG.

In terms of Reddit, the memes are mostly on the r/grimdank board but overflow to other areas since 40k is more and more "Normie sci fi culture" on the Reddit community. Its no longer a niche thing. Come browse terrain over on r/terrainbuilding I check that board daily and it is by far my favorite social media website to check for the hobby.

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That’s the spirit. Completely demean what I say by using words like “trigger”.

Bye.


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 Grimtuff wrote:
That’s the spirit. Completely demean what I say by using words like “trigger”. Bye.


I removed the once sentence with the word trigger which I'm almost certain is the reasoning for your original rage post. I always forget that Reddit and forums lean so heavily right. This is about artists posting art.

You take terrible pictures of your models and you have an empty gallery. That may be the reason why you had issues getting your models out there. Lack of content, poor quality photographs, and a fairly negative sense of community. I use an older iPhone for photos and they seem to come out fine.



To the poster who mentioned flickr - it's a fine site. I'm just not as active. I hate the format of Pinterest but really like the thousands of terrain/scenery pictures they have from scale modelers and train landscapes (as well as 40k terrain and so on)

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Grimtuff, Reddit isn't the best example I'd use if you want to get proper feedback on your work it's an echo chamber, even at the best of times. Like all social media, it's not about what you post, it's when you post it. Learning peak usage times and picking active but smaller subreddits are a pretty decent way of getting your stuff seen. The same applies to Instagram to a degree. As someone from Ireland, if you want your upvotes, you post at a time that lines up with an American timezone, especially on Reddit. Getting relevant feedback is nigh on impossible these days on r/Warhammer40k due to the fact the subreddit has blown up in the amount of subscribers it has and the fact that people get moany people complain if you post a non-finished piece because you say WIP.

My own posts don't get much in the way of hits, but figuring out the peak times has given me some results, especially with feedback. As DV8 said, do it for yourself, not for the adoring fans you want to get (or seem to want), and to add to that, consistency is key to growing a following on any platform, if you care about that kind of thing.

   
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 Grimtuff wrote:
Do you know how utterly deflating it is to be met with radio silence (or worse, the silent downvote) after posting your work that you've been told is excellent in the past (and have people in awe over it IRL) to get just nothing, and then you see someone's terrible kitbash, that; you also cannot point out what can be improved on, as heaven forbid you constructively criticise someone's work in this hobby shoot past your because they've constructed some sob story and/or bs to go with it.

I don't give a feth that I might sound like I'm up my own backside here. I've decided they don't deserve to see my work after how I've been treated, and nothing is going to change that now. I've been bitten too many times.


So? I mean what do you want me to say about it? Sorry to burst your bubble, but nobody owes you anything.

Opening yourself up to the world means you are inviting both the world's praise and the world's criticism and rejection. You can't have one with the potential of the other, and you need to accept that and get over it. Many great painters (or really, anybody with an online presence, be it artist, musician, whatever) put in the time and the work to put themselves out on the global stage, take it or leave it.

I can guarantee you that for every success, there's probably a hundred failures, and for every person that makes it, another hundred or more have failed. Probably thousands.

And that's just life. What do you want? An echo-chamber of people just lining up to pat you on the back? Take a step back and take a look at it objectively:

You've put your work out, and it's not getting the interest or the praise or the kudos you expect. Okay, sure. Why could that be happening?

1. Not the right crowd. Maybe the people you're reaching out to aren't interested, or don't know what they're looking at. Means you'll have to put in work to get your work in front of the right people.

2. Not a big enough crowd. Makes sense; you should always be trying to reach more people. This means putting the work in. Finding the right hashtags, or posting to the right forums or websites. But this is also time. The entire world isn't going to see your work immediately. Maybe only a handful. But they might share your work, or mention you in passing, and then those people will reshare or mention it to others, like a cascading effect.

3. People don't like your work. Okay, this one is a harder pill to swallow. This could key in to 1 and 2 above, where you need to make sure the right people or enough people see it to get a genuine reaction. But it could just be that the market thinks your work is garbage. And you have to understand that just because you or the people around you might think you're hot gak, doesn't mean the world sees it that way. You need to be able to take that rejection and then understand why. And if you get your work in front of the right people and enough people and you're still not getting the positive reaction you want or expect, then maybe that's a sign that people don't like what you do, or that your work simply isn't impressive enough.

At the end of the day, if you want people to love your work and express that, then you need to give them work that they want. It's not about any of this "deserve" nonsense. That's entitlement. Stop it. I could just as easily flip it around and say you don't "deserve" people's praise. But where does that get you? Nowhere.

But bottom line, this HAS to be for you. If you hang your hopes on the expectation of praise and success, what happens when that praise and success don't happen? You're building everything on a shaky foundation and that's just a bad idea.

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