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Status update, and plans and such
2 years ago
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I dunno how many of yall read these, i know I've not been as active as I should have been.
I want to change that, but at the moment I'm kinda split across a bunch of different platforms, and I've got both a personality type, as well as mental health stuff that makes it very hard for me to even be active and outgoing on even one platform, let alone all of them, but I've been told again and again diversification is key. I've tried to post my linktree in the descriptions of my posts so if people wanna keep up with me they can track me down wherever. https://linktr.ee/lukatheott
Anyway, status update, gonna address a few different things
First, my art and community locations and growth:
1. I've always viewed FA as my home base, of sorts, but there's a lot of functions that are stale and outdated here, and I've always seen it as kindof a terrible platform to promote any sort of community growth. I am doubling down on Discord. you're free to join, the link's available, but I need to spruce it up again before I do a big push to try and round people up from every platform to join up. its SFW all ages. When its properly ready ill make another journal and maybe even draw a promotional pic for it, we'll see. I feel like its pretty important to not just be a black box, because my anxiety tends to force me to be. I want to find and coordinate with other artists of my size too but I'm pretty anxious to interact with people, anyone bigger than me im extra anxious around though.
2. Things have been admittedly good, in terms of growth. I dunno if I ever really touched base over here about how much I grew on TikTok last year, but that's definitively my largest audience, at over 1100 followers. Youtube is steadily growing, every timelapse seems to get me another couple of subscribers, and it's on pace to overtake Twitter unless I make something happen there.
Twitter I probably overvalue, but it's where the fandom is for the most part, so I feel compelled to keep trying to make it work. It's also among the most social platforms even if it's terrible for sharing art, and where I follow a lot of creators. All the same, I'm at 90 followers there, and in the 50s on youtube at the moment. Reddit I have 27 followers but truth be told I don't know what to make of that, I mainly view Reddit as a conduit to my other platforms. FurAffinity is still second place, though I don't know how many of my watchers are active I'm always happy to see faves and especially comments, and I'm hoping some of you do decide to read this, as I really do want to form a real community and be able to engage with yall more.
3. Mental health. I've gotta pretty good understanding of my triggers and sources of anxiety and ways to cope and mitigate things to hopefully minimize downward spirals and such. I also have new things I'm doing to be healthier and happier, its a long road, and i was very sick last year and went though some real rough shit in my personal life at the same time, so I'm just physically not great, but slowly and steadily on the path back to good health.
4. My Friends. I tend to neglect them, cuz my anxiety insists me interacting with them annoys them, but I wanna be better for them. Two are streamers, and that's gotten me thinking about streaming again. I'm not making any promises, but I am going to make a PNGtuber so I have it if i need it, either for my own streams, or for appearing in there if I ever do. Given I'm a mod and roommate of one that seems more likely. At any rate, I want to be a better friend, and make more friends as well
I'll plug em cuz they deserve it, Lilly (she/her) and Nalan (they/them)
I want to change that, but at the moment I'm kinda split across a bunch of different platforms, and I've got both a personality type, as well as mental health stuff that makes it very hard for me to even be active and outgoing on even one platform, let alone all of them, but I've been told again and again diversification is key. I've tried to post my linktree in the descriptions of my posts so if people wanna keep up with me they can track me down wherever. https://linktr.ee/lukatheott
Anyway, status update, gonna address a few different things
First, my art and community locations and growth:
1. I've always viewed FA as my home base, of sorts, but there's a lot of functions that are stale and outdated here, and I've always seen it as kindof a terrible platform to promote any sort of community growth. I am doubling down on Discord. you're free to join, the link's available, but I need to spruce it up again before I do a big push to try and round people up from every platform to join up. its SFW all ages. When its properly ready ill make another journal and maybe even draw a promotional pic for it, we'll see. I feel like its pretty important to not just be a black box, because my anxiety tends to force me to be. I want to find and coordinate with other artists of my size too but I'm pretty anxious to interact with people, anyone bigger than me im extra anxious around though.
2. Things have been admittedly good, in terms of growth. I dunno if I ever really touched base over here about how much I grew on TikTok last year, but that's definitively my largest audience, at over 1100 followers. Youtube is steadily growing, every timelapse seems to get me another couple of subscribers, and it's on pace to overtake Twitter unless I make something happen there.
Twitter I probably overvalue, but it's where the fandom is for the most part, so I feel compelled to keep trying to make it work. It's also among the most social platforms even if it's terrible for sharing art, and where I follow a lot of creators. All the same, I'm at 90 followers there, and in the 50s on youtube at the moment. Reddit I have 27 followers but truth be told I don't know what to make of that, I mainly view Reddit as a conduit to my other platforms. FurAffinity is still second place, though I don't know how many of my watchers are active I'm always happy to see faves and especially comments, and I'm hoping some of you do decide to read this, as I really do want to form a real community and be able to engage with yall more.
3. Mental health. I've gotta pretty good understanding of my triggers and sources of anxiety and ways to cope and mitigate things to hopefully minimize downward spirals and such. I also have new things I'm doing to be healthier and happier, its a long road, and i was very sick last year and went though some real rough shit in my personal life at the same time, so I'm just physically not great, but slowly and steadily on the path back to good health.
4. My Friends. I tend to neglect them, cuz my anxiety insists me interacting with them annoys them, but I wanna be better for them. Two are streamers, and that's gotten me thinking about streaming again. I'm not making any promises, but I am going to make a PNGtuber so I have it if i need it, either for my own streams, or for appearing in there if I ever do. Given I'm a mod and roommate of one that seems more likely. At any rate, I want to be a better friend, and make more friends as well
I'll plug em cuz they deserve it, Lilly (she/her) and Nalan (they/them)
