even social media used by normal people like facebook and tiktok?

>>7915755
Outside of those who reach random meme status like Frieren looking up, the network effect is compounding. Views will build slowly at first, then go vertical. Assuming your work is actually good.
No offense, but this thread gets remade a lot, and I've yet to see one instance of a poster who genuinely deserved more views or a higher follower count.

>>7915757
>all fully finished painted works with unique premises and popular and/or stylish subject matter and names/tags people look up
so?

Seriously, so what? Why should anyone like it just because of that? Thinking that finished work deserves attention means you don't draw for fun nor have you been drawing for very long.

Keep on gambling, anon. Two weeks is nothing.

>>7915773
It's two weeks + a month, it's clearly a shadowban of sorts because it doesn't take that long to start getting likes if you're tagging your work

You just need one post to reach the right person through the algorithm. A single repost from someone big can boost you to 2k followers overnight. Until then you keep on gambling.
It’s also possible there simply isn’t an audience for what you are drawing. Is it fanart?

>>7915758
>I've yet to see one instance of a poster who genuinely deserved more views or a higher follower count.
Not OP but have you really not seen at least one artist who's unbelievably stuck at 500 followers or something? Seriously? I know that nobody here even follows anyone that doesn't do porn and porn gets you 24895824923453 gorillion brown fans instantly but outside of porn it's pretty common. Maybe they've all quit at this point. I stopped looking at this cancer years ago.

Nah, everything is fine. Follow your dreams, you can be a successful internet artist if you keep grinding boxes and tagging your works on social media with the right hashtags. After that, just wait for the right person to retweet you and you'll make it.

>>7915755
I checked out of all this gay social media bullshit in 2018 and I'm increasingly happy I did. Before the big sloppa came I was still on the fence but after then I never looked back. I think anyone who is still posting honest to god art in 2026 is genuinely schizo, suicidal, terminally autistic, masochistic, or a combination of the above. You must be the kind of person who gets up in the morning and wraps a giant dildo in sandpaper and backflips off a table to take it up the ass. First thing in the morning to start the day. That's the kind of person I imagine is posting actual drawings online in 2026. Like how and why in the fucking world are people posting content online when it's 99% overrun by browns and AI

>>7916034
People make good money from art online. Skill issue on your part

>>7916043
I said honest to god art not whatever shitty FOTM porn you jack off to, you fucking inbred nigger kill yourself

>>7916051
>that's not REAL art
Lmao what coping loser. This is the type of retard that lies to himself everyday about what a cool smart boy he is despite being a low IQ schizo.

How is this for a strategy?

Use these platforms to get traffic to your own website, and monetize the site with merchandise.

>>7916008
>Not OP but have you really not seen at least one artist who's unbelievably stuck at 500 followers or something?
Yes, but I've always seen that. It's not a recent development as OP implies. There are some amazing artists who just like to keep to themselves, don't interact with other artists, paint subjects that are esoteric, and don't actively chase clout online.
Those artists are happy. They don't come here and complain about not having viewers.

People have been saying it since post-pandemic that they're tired of social media, following by bot and aislop flood, now with content creators parroting the same
>"social media is dead!"
videos and talking points.
This board was warned countless times and every time it was just the usual spam of insults.

Two months ago Instagram randomly permabanned my account with 23k followers. Has that happened to any of you anons?

i deleted social all media years ago lol

>>7916034
First of; those who still post on social media are highly delusional and believe their ticket out of misery is right around the next fotm slop they're going to post.
Secondly; they're brown and autistic.

>>7916051
>it's only real art if nobody wants it
lol

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>>7915758
I will not pretend my art is anything but utter shit but there are clear signs of algorithmic fuckery. I was on Twitter before Elon bought it and saw my numbers go from low but fitting considering the garbage I was posting to exactpy zero.

I undoubtedly could have salvaged some of it if I spent more time drawing instead of bitching on /ic/ about it and I guess some of those 5 followers a month I was getting were bots after all but I don't think you can just grind your way out of it.
, it's probably grinding and paying for premium.

>>7916249
Again, I do not wish to offend or demoralize, if anything I want to encourage you to keep at it. But your contentions do not reflect my current browsing experience on X/Twitter.
I browse X for art a lot (my follow list is well over 5 figures). Right now I am exposed to new artists on my timeline that have fewer than a couple hundred followers, far more often than ever before. They've definitely tweaked things, but they are suggesting a lot more posts I would like, regardless of follower count. No one is being suppressed.
My guess is that X is now using AI to categorize images and making recommendations based on user interest. The only artists who may suffer from this are those whose works are difficult to categorize, or are otherwise unreadable for the AI.

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>>7915755
I guess I'm lucky I just want to make art for sexual gratification and other simple reasons, instead of some deep ephemeral spiritual idea and vision.

There will never be a shortage of coomers and my art will always automatically find them and funnel them into my e-begging jars as long as I'm industrially consistent and passionate about it.

>>7915755
Pyw

>>7915755
Post the address of one of your sites here, maybe you will have good comments.

>>7915755
It's all AI now

>>7915755
time to get an actual job lol

>>7918110
A huge part of the problem would be solved globally if they started region locking India out of the Western internet. YouTube has become completely unusable because of the slop spam and every time I block a spam channel on my client I see that the region is India. I fucking hate India so much it's unreal. I pray every day that something malfunctions in all the nuclear facilities over the world and they all launch toward India simultaneously.

>>7915755
>>7918110
Actually, the AI thing it is affecting the art scene in a deep general way. AI works as some sort of chemotherapy killing the most important elements in the culture environment. The vast majority of normies consume "art" in the most superficial level, they don't get to care about the nature of the art they consume. So AI KILLS everything that goes beyond that normie level. Legacy, technique, personal story, tools, artist struggle, artist businesses , ALL of that suddenly disappear. Doesn't exist anymore. Art is that on the screen and does what it does and that's it. No need to see who owns it, who made it, how it was made, it doesn't matter anymore. And if you don't matter to normies, then it's over. The market is run by the normie class consumer behavior. If they don't care, you cease to exist as a market player in the economy system.

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>>7915755
social networking site is different from gallery site like pixiv, where artwork are served on a chronological basis in a primary feed that can be filtered through tags. The algorithms serves content are more based on the behavior and how accounts associates with each other than what type of content that just exists there. So it is important to find people who shares your interest and interact with their content. This increase the likelihood that they will look at your profile and follow you. While I occasionally attempt to help boost smaller creators, but only to a limited effect, because the type of audience I cultivate are not interested in their content so I came to the conclusion that its important to find and associate with people who share similar interest or produce content that serves your intended audience.

>>7918371
>The vast majority of normies consume "art" in the most superficial level, they don't get to care about the nature of the art they consume. So AI KILLS everything that goes beyond that normie level. Legacy, technique, personal story, tools, artist struggle, artist businesses , ALL of that suddenly disappear.
It's more like normies are apes with shit taste who mainly consume porn which AI does perfectly well since it's always the same shit.

>>7915755
Your art is not that great

>>7916008
You are not entitled to a following

>>7916051
Lmao kys schizo

The demoralization campaign has ended. You can stop doing it for free.

>>7918371
Normies would never support artists.

>>7918446
Normies are the fuel that feeds the industry. Movies, video games, art books, toys, tv shows, animation, apps, any random product like shirts, mugs, school utensils, backpacks, shoes, stationery, all sorts of shit using an IP brand created by artists, and in need of other artists to produce all those derivatives products that are consumed by the normie-verse as gifts, for the kids, for their couple, or the retarded hat they wear at the movies, or whatever. Without normies buying all sorts of stupid shit there are no artists getting paid.
The sons and daughters interested in art come attached with those normie parents paying for that shit. If those kids no longer believe anymore in the alluring nature of the "art world" and "being an artist", then all those sites like Marc Brunet's "Cubebrush" platform will cease to exist since no one will care anymore about tutorials, brush packs, ref packs, art store discounts, or art tablets or apps, etc.
If the normies stop believing in the mystery allure behind an art piece, art and artists will die. Except in socialist utopias like Scandinavia or some parts of europe I guess where the state will still finance art schools and academies.

>>7918451
Indie art industry is diminishing rapidly.
>rampant rise in cost of living: gas, food, rent, electricity (all essentials)
>industry giants like Temu, gacha games, streaming services, etc competing for disposable income
>AI flooding the marketplace, devaluing artist labor
Indie artist spaces like Etsy are flooded with AI or dropshipped products. I think the past decade has shown that normies do not care about anything but the price point and how much joy they get out of whatever they're buying. Despite all the superficial noise on social media, no one is drastically changing their purchasing habits to protest against AI for the indie artists' sake. Even if they wanted to, most of them can't discern what's AI or what isn't at this point. And at this rate, it's going to get worse, not better.

>>7916115
Well done

>>7915755
>7 different platforms
Anon... sites get jealous of one another and will sabotage your post if you have multiple partners.