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You know what's genuinely disheartening?
3 years ago
... Seeing people favorite your stream notification post.
on the one hand, yes, people like the image enough to tuck it away for later viewing or at least show the artist their appreciation.
On the other, they are auto-piloting so much that they look at the image, favorite it, don't go to the stream, and then go about their day, just stuffing their fav box like a glutton.
I get it. it's hard to have an attention span in this world where the internet constantly bombards us with endless, sloshing tsunamis of sewer manure, where there's a never-ending flow of nationalist fuckheads finding new and unique ways to reject modernity and embrace their awful traditionalist bullshit for everyone because they need power over 'others'. I also get that something as insignificant as furry art is something you shouldn't have to challenge yourself to look at what the piece is called or what is in the description box or even if you've seen the piece of art before. I get it.
... It still makes me question when I submit something new here and get favs from all the usual suspects if I'm actually showing something people appreciate and like, or if I'm just... getting the same metrics from the same people going through the motions, providing me a banal platitude, y'know?
on the one hand, yes, people like the image enough to tuck it away for later viewing or at least show the artist their appreciation.
On the other, they are auto-piloting so much that they look at the image, favorite it, don't go to the stream, and then go about their day, just stuffing their fav box like a glutton.
I get it. it's hard to have an attention span in this world where the internet constantly bombards us with endless, sloshing tsunamis of sewer manure, where there's a never-ending flow of nationalist fuckheads finding new and unique ways to reject modernity and embrace their awful traditionalist bullshit for everyone because they need power over 'others'. I also get that something as insignificant as furry art is something you shouldn't have to challenge yourself to look at what the piece is called or what is in the description box or even if you've seen the piece of art before. I get it.
... It still makes me question when I submit something new here and get favs from all the usual suspects if I'm actually showing something people appreciate and like, or if I'm just... getting the same metrics from the same people going through the motions, providing me a banal platitude, y'know?
I have to assume there are a chunk of your followers that want to support you anyway they can (without spending money) but don't necessarily have time to join the stream (because they have four more websites to check).
So yeah, they probably auto-fave everything you post, even if they're not really into it.
I think it comes down to people using the internet differently than they used to. It may be a bunch of problems. Like, it doesn't seem like people leave as many comments as they used to. The only way to get more engagement is to literally ask your followers for their opinions and whatnot (otherwise people will just read and move on).
I say this because I'll occasionally post a journal and get 20+ comments from different users when most of my journals get comments from the same 5-6 people.
So obviously people read my journals (more than the same handful of people), but they only write back if there's a "call to action" in the journal.
I guess I rambled and got off subject. My point is , try not to think too much about it, because I think it's happening across the entire internet. It seems like unless you have a huge following on Twitter (or a real social media site that uses algorithms), you can expect to get minimal/no engagement on anything you post. In my pessimistic opinion, it's because people are super busy when they are on the internet looking in every different direction, so they only engage with popular stuff that other cool people are engaging with (because no one wants to "waste time" leaving comments in a thread that will never be noticed). Hence, a popular artist might have hundreds of comments under each new post , with people tripping over themselves to say the same thing over and over, while an artist with middling popularity will get 1-2 comments on a new post (leaving them wondering why they work so hard to create content in the first place).
Oh wait, I rambled again.
But yeah, I also find myself putting a Fave on stories I didn't read, or art I didn't actually save to the spank folder for later.
It's nothing to try and trick the artist/writer. More of a way to tell them, "Hey, I noticed you did a thing. I'm glad you're still doing things, because things are good."
Just because I don't have time to curate my diaper porn as much I used to, doesn't mean I can't let people know that I at least noticed their existence.
That's why I'm commented here right now. Clex is bummed. I don't really know Clex, but Clex needs some attention for their booboo today, so here I am!
Usually I don't watch anyone's streams or comment on their art, because I'm too afraid of accidentally saying the wrong thing and annoying them.
But I favourite all their art because I hope it will give them encouragement to keep going.