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poll Poll : What's your go-to first night strategy?
I'm so sorry to hear that! If there's anything I can do to help, just let me know! I genuinely hope it gets better for you. That must be so awful to be living through right now.
The amount of artists who post their art/stuff on only one website bothers me a bunch.. There's no downside to sharing your content on more than one platform, it's only up from here.
Don't forget the artists that don't post anything anywhere because they don't think their work is worth sharing, either due to a lack of skill or because it's incomplete. Looking back at your years-old posts and wanting to scrub your eyes with steel wool is a rite of passage for every artist, and you dare rob yourself of that agony? The audacity!
Twitter generally is a bit of a coin toss cuz on one hand most of my commission work actually came from twitter but on the other hand twitter kinda sucks, even if your feed is perfect with no ridiculous drama, there's still the worry of AI. The only benefit to it is that you can upload any sort of topics you'd like without confusion.
Deviant Art sucks, genuinely nothing but scams, AI slop, art theft, and 'corn' everywhere. The only reason I'd be willing to upload there is perhaps to keep myself a portfolio but otherwise it's a very neutral site, nothing to win, and the loss is negligible if you only use the site to keep your art stored somewhere. The upside is that you can organize your art into folders, which is neat since other websites rarely do that so easily and neatly.
BSky (BlueSky) is basically small twitter made even smaller since there are not bots. The website is tiny, but there's no harm in uploading there. It does seem to weirdly enough have a lot of political talk if you make a new account, but it does sort of slowly cater the algorithm to your liking after a while.
Instagram is the default place to upload art that doesn't suck, it's nice, but hard to use a bit since it doesn't allow for any ratio of images to be uploaded there, I have to specifically edit my drawing's ratio to fit Instagram. Instagram is both the hardest and easiest to go viral on based on what you upload because the algorithm is harsh.
Tumbler is the only one here I haven't used much but from the looks of it, it seems nice, though a bit weird so far. idk..
Artstation is for professionals, but it's super annoying to deal with sometimes, I just use it in case I find any commission work there, but otherwise it's just a place to upload your portfolio into the void. The upside of this is that the portfolio is quite professional to look at and organize, so if anyone asks you can show them that as your default proto.
Newgrounds is very slow and small in terms of the amount of traction, you'll most likely find the the same 3 likes you get on all of your posts on there are by the same people every time, the community is very dedicated so if you piss anyone off, the whole website knows about it, otherwise portfolio wise I think it's the most fun to upload there, but there's absolutely barely any chance you'll go viral from uploading on there, the most amount of views they get on there is like 10k, which you get if you're already famous there.
Ko-fi is dead, but I upload there in-case any zombies still surf that website. You can set "products" on there where people can buy specific things, that's always handy, but since the website is semi dead it's a bit hard to find customers unless you lead them there.
Imgur is just for uploading images, that's about it. I don't think anyone uses it for anything else.
Youtube is a classic, but it takes the most skill to use. You can showcase your work, and the progress that it takes to complete it, talk a bit and engage with your followers, but this turns something that could've taken 1 hour to make, into 3 hours; Something that took you a week will take another week to compile into a properly understandable video, and there's no guarantee it'll be viewed.
I am also looking for feedback on tutorials and guides! As well as sharing some on my brand new Discord server. Suggestions for new content welcome as well. I encourage to direct everything to my Google Form since I don't check PMC as much