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Is becoming a social media artist worth it in the long run?
Has anyone here ever gotten big from it?
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>>7931664
Before and after can go into massive extremes when it comes to functioning, though. Stupid yeah but a junkie years into his addiction could kill you, something the same person wouldn't do before the drugs
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>>7931644
It has its ups and downs
Good
>it's money in your pocket
>it gets you real work after like 5-10 years of doing it because many people with hiring power are secretly coomers
>You will get abnormally good at draftsmanship and figure, both of which help with all your other future work
>That Titanic scene has ensured a generation of IRL women want to be drawn naked flatteringly, so if you're good, "I can draw you like one of my French girls" WILL get you laid.
>It pays well and for substantially lower quality work
>If you know coomers in your life, NSFW work can function as a substitute for currency
>It's just a really fun thing to draw
>People kinda just assume all artists are horny goons anyway, so you're not actually taking that much of a reputation hit by getting paid for the stigma
Bad
>Long term partners don't like finding out about it unless you're extremely up front about it
>Significant chance a major AI company's image generation "no safety filter" weights leak and totally nuke the NSFW space within 5 years
>If you make a job out of something you like doing (drawing naked women), it will eventually become a drudgery for you
>Your fans are unhinged and generally the most degenerate, worst customer service customers in all of customer service
>You are guaranteed going to get doxxed and your public NSFW work will be linked to your real name eventually, so if you plan to work a job where respectability matters, you will fail the background check.
>Basically every payment platform perma-hates you once you start, and if you ever want to do non-NSFW business in the future, your negative history with them will follow you
>If you go pro with it, it's really hard to get back into the normal working world because it's really hard to explain the resume gap
Possible useful test would be
>assume 30 dick pics and 5 sex tapes of you personally leaked. Are you fucked?
If your life would be derailed or fucked don't do NSFW, it's about this negatively impactful.
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>>7931676
I assumed you meant a social media PORN artist btw.
If you mean some other kind, you will find there are basically only three viable kinds these days
>porn
>storytime animation vlogger if you're a woman
>fan artist (who if DMed does porn)
Pretty much everything else is a wasteland unless you're 0.01% good, and if you are, you probably correctly feel
>why tf would I need social media, I'm too busy with all the work I get.
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>>7931866
The bar in animation is lower as anyone with actual talent at it and who puts the work in gets snapped up to do it professionally, and then doesn't wanna do it at home because as a space it's an all-consuming monster that eats your personal life and will to draw.
Anyone who either is immune to this fact or is outside the industry but can nevertheless animate will pretty quickly get a following if their work isn't shit and has any inherent virality; boobs have both.
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>>7931644
The latinx nigga you posted trooned out soon after making it big and now posts porn of xer tiny girlcock and pierced hrtitties on xer alt. This could happen to any one of you niggas so you decide if it's worth it.
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>>7932571
Back in my day being trans just meant you put on girly things when alone in your room, not cutting your genitals up and demanding the right to use the women's locker room. You damn kids with your HRTs and your webcomics and your puberty blockers and your cartoons and your fursonas and your anime OCs and your court-mandated gender reassignment surgeries.
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>>7931644
>a social media artist
Do you mean an artist who uses social media, or a click farmer? Do the former if you want to I guess, but the latter I wouldnt do unless you just want to use art as a grift [spoiler](dont do that, its a bad idea)[/spoiler]
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>>7931676
>>You are guaranteed going to get doxxed and your public NSFW work will be linked to your real name eventually, so if you plan to work a job where respectability matters, you will fail the background check.
How though? I get that might happen if you're doing paypaly stuff but what if it's just patreon?
Also how does a random fuckass business even check out that you did nsfw work? It's not like past violations and whatnot in a government database.
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>>7934359
>f but what if it's just patreon?
You're good if it's on patreon though. bank statements will only show patreon for both you and the subber. Other platforms though, names will be shown, even ko-fi shows the legal name.
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>>7934449
You're good short term, you're not good long term
>>7934359
Your customers are John Wick autists for
>I recognize this pattern of brushstrokes from your other work, your writing style, your regional dialect, the average heatmap center of IP addresses you post from or communicate from wherever visible, checked the average time of day you post, I've analyzed every piece of metadata of everything you've ever done anywhere on the internet, I've cross-checked against every artist on linkedin or artstation and any bit of personal info you've ever released that's even CONCEIVABLY about you, I've attempted password resets on every account you control and logged into any account with a publicly leaked password you have to mine info, I've called customer support at your web provider, and webhost, and patreon, and paypal and the service rep let slip too much info, I literally work at one or both or in an intelligence agency and performed an illegal data request in order to pull information regarding-
And so on. People are weirdos, and porn weirdos are the weirdest weirdos.
Do your best, obviously, but go in knowing
>yeah I'm getting doxxed someday if I draw porn, it is what it is
you'll be a lot happier when-not-if it happens.
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>>7934757
At this point it's a question of philosophy, but spitballing, it's two things.
First is that every commission requester is a weirdo. A 1SD normie (covers 2/3rds of people) just goes on pornhub and clicks stuff on the homepage.
a 2SD anon (95%) has search terms for what they're specifically looking for.
a 3SD degen (99.7%) has multiple search terms, keyword and time filters, and is paying for subscription content.
a 4SD degen (99.99%) is purchasing the commission of novel pornography.
So every single commissioner is pretty much by definition at least a 4SD degen.
Second is harder to quantify so I'll write a bit freely: you're in the porn and YOU are the porn. When you draw porn, the idea of who YOU are is part of the porn, for them, because they're a participant in the dance between you two, that ends with porn existing in the world. Part of what they're getting off on is the Promethean energy of making porn exist that others like them enjoy, and to feel they are a master of said process, and a huge part of that is that THEY MADE YOU make porn, they turned money into porn in the world. Especially if you are a woman (and them not knowing makes it even hotter, because they know a woman might lie she was a man), the idea that you might be aroused or disgusted by the things you're drawing is itself part of what makes it hot for them, they're getting off on your mind-state, or even the revulsion of finding out you could actually be a man like you say. So they feel embedded in a mystery, which they build it up in their minds: the more they interact with you, the more they want to know who their dance partner is, and the more it drives them mad. Most commissioners have money, and someone with means in this crazy-making state who DESPERATELY wants to know "WHO AM I MAKING PORN WITH?" can and will go to extreme ends to find out, and they're already an extreme person.
Idk. Maybe all that's bullshit, but end result's the same, people that draw porn get doxxed.
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>>7934791
It's important to also keep in mind that if you're fandom specific your chances of getting doxxed increase tenfold. If you stick around drawing porn of characters that were not already made for something sexual, some deranged purity crusader is going to come for you sooner or later. Though this also applies to sfw social media art, you're a little less likely to become a victim of an ape attack that way. I'm a xitter artist and most of what I draw is from a very niche webseries and almost every other artist in the fandom has been doxxed and ran off over retarded drama to the point there's hardly any artists left.
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>>7931644
Eh it's fine if you're not a schizo. If anything, focusing on it a little too much can cause stagnation, but overall that's the only real issue I'd see, then again I'm a NSFW artist and I don't have to deal with much.
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>>7931644
I've been thinking about becoming a social media artist but the only (easy) option out there are either becoming nsfw or fanart artist, both requires you to communicate with people and keep up with trend, bonus point if you can somehow becomes 'entertaining' to them like kyle.
Nsfw is where you can get easy followers, but then your account is going to be dirty - people will associate your name with nsfw stuff, there's no room for improvisation for yourself unless you want to resort to some niche /d/ tier fetish and entertain your own people. I mean, eventually people will get tired of seeing the newest fotm character dressed up in lingerie or drawn in a mombod in some seductive pose for god knows how many times, if you get what i'm saying.
As for fanart, mainly gacha like genshin these days. You need to get into fandom, you need to know what's the newest character on the block, what's the newest ship that people (faggot, troons, and women) like, and keep drawing someone elses character in some random scenario. The catch is that you either have to be extremely good at drawing that people will follow you themselves or you draw some /beg/ tier art and have a good communication with that fandom to ensure constant engagement and interaction. Obviously there will be drama, lots of drama, but if youre an imageboard dweller I'm pretty sure you can tiptoe-ing your way around it.
Anyway, since i'm not a people pleaser I decided to not becoming a social media artist and stick to 4cuck and dump my stuff here, but hey, maybe you or anyone itt will do it and took a thing or two out of my advice
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