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The New Sot Times - November '24
10 months ago
Hi there. What's going on today?
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I'm on Bluesky! You can find me at "sotbox". I've been doing raffles for full-color portraits when I reach new follower milestones. Follow me there, enter in the next raffle, and maybe you'll get a portrait for yourself too.
I don't post on twitter anymore. A few people I follow were suspended for seemingly no reason. Even with hard work to appeal the bans, they were still unable to come back. I don't like being punished for posting, so I'm leaving it as is. 12 years is a pretty good run! Okay, that's not the only reason why I'm leaving. I'm also leaving twitter because numbers don't matter anymore. Imagine you share a new piece of art that you put several hours or days of work into. It gets over a hundred favs, and a dozen new followers. Pretty sweet. The next day, I've lost seven of those followers. By the end of that day, I got more than seven of those followers back. The day after next, I've lost twenty followers or more. The day after that? I've got them back to a completely new, random amount.
These fluctuations don't mean anything. It means you have to pay money to share your art effectively, or be consistent with sharing something new everyday instead. I want to be an artist, not an ad-man. I want to share better art every year, not low quality artwork everyday. I have slowly built up a following over the years, and it came from sharing my journey in making art very often. Now I'm being told by powerful people, with more money than I have, something else entirely. "You could be a successful artist if you pay us money for more visibility." No thanks. I was already visible, but then they changed the rules.
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Don't worry. I'm going to be okay. What am I up to these days?
I've been enjoying playing multiplayer games with friends rather than by myself. I like playing Deadlock and Fortnite! Add me on Steam! I've been enjoying building up my profile nowadays. Steam doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon, so you should add me! If you want to add me on Epic to play Fortnite together, just ask. That's all I use epic games for anyways. Fortnite is a party game for me. Deadlock is more rigid, but equally as goofy if not more so. I'm excited to see where Deadlock is going next over the years! I like to play Viscous. I've made some videos of my plays in Fortnite too. Find them here!
My sister and one of my other cousins have both had children now. I'm very happy for my sister! I'm an uncle now. My mom is doing well and is very happy to have me in her life after all of the loss she experienced years ago. She's overjoyed to be a grandparent! My best friend/roommate and I are doing nicely, and I appreciate being around when they have to deal with their difficult parents. They recently came to visit for a couple days on election day, and it was very stressful. I'm really proud of my roommate for getting through the visit with thankfully just a cold. I got the cold too lol. Then we had tea and played lots of mario party!
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I don't feel like saying something such as "stay tuned for more!" because I'm getting pretty sick of hype. I'm happy for a following, but I want to push my art into new territory that everybody will enjoy. Familiar yet modern. Exciting and novel. Sweet and ... sour? Whatever the case, this comes with doing the artwork, and it's a pretty lonely experience. So I'm at my computer, learning about the world a lot everyday.
I feel disillusioned by social media, so I am interested in being outside and hanging in multiplayer video games instead. I feel disillusioned with how I would share art over the years, so I want artmaking to be on a more strict schedule that can eventually roll into how I share new art every week. Even then, there is still disillusionment. I don't feel very excited for things as much as I used to be. This will pass, but I'm much more at peace with my depression, and this is a part of it. Often I look around online and see an immense amount of hype everyday that builds into disappointment of failed expectations. This is not a very new problem, but it feels intensified with how many more people are online every year. I don't believe I'm above the same scrutiny, but it makes me feel very sad how many people online are so ready and willing to hate the things they were originally interested in loving with all their hearts. Sometimes it feels like the need to react to an experience is more important than the experience itself. I don't understand it, and it makes me feel alone. It feels difficult to be excited about culture when culture changes to emphasize the reaction they'll get from their work rather than the quality of that work in the first place.
Seeya later.
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I'm on Bluesky! You can find me at "sotbox". I've been doing raffles for full-color portraits when I reach new follower milestones. Follow me there, enter in the next raffle, and maybe you'll get a portrait for yourself too.
I don't post on twitter anymore. A few people I follow were suspended for seemingly no reason. Even with hard work to appeal the bans, they were still unable to come back. I don't like being punished for posting, so I'm leaving it as is. 12 years is a pretty good run! Okay, that's not the only reason why I'm leaving. I'm also leaving twitter because numbers don't matter anymore. Imagine you share a new piece of art that you put several hours or days of work into. It gets over a hundred favs, and a dozen new followers. Pretty sweet. The next day, I've lost seven of those followers. By the end of that day, I got more than seven of those followers back. The day after next, I've lost twenty followers or more. The day after that? I've got them back to a completely new, random amount.
These fluctuations don't mean anything. It means you have to pay money to share your art effectively, or be consistent with sharing something new everyday instead. I want to be an artist, not an ad-man. I want to share better art every year, not low quality artwork everyday. I have slowly built up a following over the years, and it came from sharing my journey in making art very often. Now I'm being told by powerful people, with more money than I have, something else entirely. "You could be a successful artist if you pay us money for more visibility." No thanks. I was already visible, but then they changed the rules.
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Don't worry. I'm going to be okay. What am I up to these days?
I've been enjoying playing multiplayer games with friends rather than by myself. I like playing Deadlock and Fortnite! Add me on Steam! I've been enjoying building up my profile nowadays. Steam doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon, so you should add me! If you want to add me on Epic to play Fortnite together, just ask. That's all I use epic games for anyways. Fortnite is a party game for me. Deadlock is more rigid, but equally as goofy if not more so. I'm excited to see where Deadlock is going next over the years! I like to play Viscous. I've made some videos of my plays in Fortnite too. Find them here!
My sister and one of my other cousins have both had children now. I'm very happy for my sister! I'm an uncle now. My mom is doing well and is very happy to have me in her life after all of the loss she experienced years ago. She's overjoyed to be a grandparent! My best friend/roommate and I are doing nicely, and I appreciate being around when they have to deal with their difficult parents. They recently came to visit for a couple days on election day, and it was very stressful. I'm really proud of my roommate for getting through the visit with thankfully just a cold. I got the cold too lol. Then we had tea and played lots of mario party!
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I don't feel like saying something such as "stay tuned for more!" because I'm getting pretty sick of hype. I'm happy for a following, but I want to push my art into new territory that everybody will enjoy. Familiar yet modern. Exciting and novel. Sweet and ... sour? Whatever the case, this comes with doing the artwork, and it's a pretty lonely experience. So I'm at my computer, learning about the world a lot everyday.
I feel disillusioned by social media, so I am interested in being outside and hanging in multiplayer video games instead. I feel disillusioned with how I would share art over the years, so I want artmaking to be on a more strict schedule that can eventually roll into how I share new art every week. Even then, there is still disillusionment. I don't feel very excited for things as much as I used to be. This will pass, but I'm much more at peace with my depression, and this is a part of it. Often I look around online and see an immense amount of hype everyday that builds into disappointment of failed expectations. This is not a very new problem, but it feels intensified with how many more people are online every year. I don't believe I'm above the same scrutiny, but it makes me feel very sad how many people online are so ready and willing to hate the things they were originally interested in loving with all their hearts. Sometimes it feels like the need to react to an experience is more important than the experience itself. I don't understand it, and it makes me feel alone. It feels difficult to be excited about culture when culture changes to emphasize the reaction they'll get from their work rather than the quality of that work in the first place.
Seeya later.
Ive barely touched it(way too busy atm to dive in) and have kinda been spewing praises for it more than I should.
I am happy to see more and more folks leaving Xitter. It's just too much to deal with these days, even if you perfectly curate your experience there. Having over 10K followers myself has meant so very very little when I only get barely 300 people ever seeing or interacting with my hard work.
I am glad you could be there for your roomie during a stressful time, and play mario party together too! Im about to have some tea myself.