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Also every artist you see on social media is a propagandist. Artist dont HAVE to post on social media. Most artist in fact never will These platforms are not here to be your friend. Modern Platforms exists to make money for their stakeholders So the known artists are good at more than just art ->

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Its why a person can have great technical skills but poor social reach They're 2 different skills. Algorithms are so desirable BECAUSE it offloads the marketing onto someone else But as an artist whose spoken to many other artists, the way some speak of the algorithmic God or how they frame ->

their followers is a very clear indication of how they view power through commodification And im not exempt from this either. Good systems like these make sure the user also think in those terms for maximum reach. You as poster have to just be willing to limit yourself and that does lead to ->

undesirable outcomes. Like objectively I could have over 50k followers if I didnt write my thoughts on my art accounts. I thought it was more important to speak than to commodify my art fully. Speaking is the point here so thats not an issue but long threads are not appealing to most people thats ->

also how I have more followers in a video format with a better algorithm to those people Im saying this to show im aware of how the game works. Its not actually that hard to be a boof basically. But to exist as boof requires a mindset that is ultimately detrimental to the soul but not the wallet ->