Re-tooling my social media presence. (life update 15/8/2021)

(BANM! lays down a map on the table pirate heist style and makes sustained eye contact...)

The plan: Social Media takeover. Its time to simp for ya girl Nai-chan by flooding all my other accounts with likes and follows.

What do you get in return? I divide how i manage my accounts into Archives and Active Accounts with my Personal Accounts being a mix of both, and commit back to being full-time weekly posts Anime/Furry artist, Nai the damned chan! (crack commando team Hurrah noises from my biggest fans intensify)

Social media isn't what it used to be boys. Ya'll like regular daily content, where's i like to work one things for months on end and only post a masterpiece once a year. But i think i found the middle ground in reserving some accounts as archives where i put the good shit, and having other accounts be for whatever little thing i feel like sharing.

Active Accounts- PICARTO / TWITCH /PATREON / TWITTER / TUMBLR / GALLEON / Discord
Archives- YOUTUBE / DA / INSTAGRAM / FUR AFFINITY /
Personal Accounts- WEBSITE / FOOD'STAGRAM / PERSSONAL TWITTER / FACEBOOK

Aright team, GO GO GO GO! follow my twiters, intagrams, youtubes, deviant arts!! Go flood my facebook with friend requests my minions! Social media Nai is back and i'm all in!

(clip to nai getting one new follower and a friend request from an aunt shes never met. TT w TT)

----Life Update 15/8/2021
So where are you posting these days?

For those of you who didn't know, it all started on Go Gaia . What? You've never heard of it? Its that popular anime website (checks notes) Wait, its called Gaia Online now? What year is this?

(reads a news paper) The president was who now?
(reads in horror) Pandemic?!
(Reads with shock) Building a colony on Mars?!?

Wait, we don't do news papers anymore? What year IS this?

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So the year is 2001 and ive just started my Gaia Online account. I have no idea what a flame-war or cancel culture or online stalkers are and i cant wait to show the world how much i love FF9 and Ranma 1/2. You guys! Have you heard of FF9 or Ranma 1/2??? Its really good!

((When the optimism hits the youth just right... (Paska meme but this time its Nai))

I take my first commission, learn about investment inflation and 5 years later I'm on Deviant Art drawing Hentai of Pokémon and My Little Pony.... When people ask me about my first job i tell them my second job a house painter. Skip forward a year or two and Deviant Art is like 'lawl no. This isnt a por* site. Pack it in and try again kids.' And like most Dragon/Moon Hentai artists of that time, my response was 'i KNOW where im not WANTED' and to shuffle on over to Fur Affinity where the censorship was lite and the hugs were free!

I stay there for (checks notes) A DECADE?!... (checks notes again) A decade and a half?!?
Well what can i say, the money was good and the people were really nice to me. If i had to pick a freaky cult, I still kind of stand by Furries. Their support meant i managed to indi -publish books and video games, pay bills on a studio, a house, and travel internationally mostly on my own dime.

Thing is, in 2013 I had a kid, and being the furry hentai artist mom of a little girl was something i was uncomfortable with. Along with some other factors, i decided that perhaps some of these new fangled 'InstaToks' or 'YouTwits' websites might be the next step in my journey.

I genuinely thought i would just move accounts and that nothing would go wrong...

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In the last few years i have lost my second older sister (2016 health complications), my friend (2016 suicide), my grandma ( 2017 old age) and my half sisters mom (2016 suicide). This is to say nothing of first time parenting, health issues, political upheaval and pandemics.

I bring this up in context to social media, cause my way of coping with all of that was to retreat into myself. I couldn't handle even the most superficial of connections, let alone the important ones. My regular doctor said i had severe depression and she wanted me on meds in 2015 BEFORE all of this went down. But its only in 2020 that i actually took her seriously about that and started reaching out for professional help.

Putting together a life of things and people that bring me joy is a part of my treatment plan. I'm not sure Anime Fandom, Art or posting on Social Media is that anymore, but its the last thing i remember bringing me joy, so im willing to give it an honest go.

Them: 'Gosh Nai, that got dark quickly. GOOD VIBES ONLY!!!'
Me: 'If you don't love me at my Vent-Post, you don't deserve me at my secret Hentai stash!!!

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So where are you posting these days?

Its most regular on my Cafe Nai Discord Channel (perhaps fortnightly). Otherwise on my personal Facebook (once a month or less) and Patreon (once a month). And recently its been Twitter!

The problem is keeping up with engagement is hard. It's been so long since i last posted regularly that I'm more focused on the habit than the content, but so far so good.

I go to post or reply to a comment and flashbacks of old personal online dramas, (Yeah, i know most of ya'll don't know about them. I'm discreet AF), a fear of letting devoted fans down when i inevitably go back into an emotional comma, or worry that ill say the wrong or piss of the wrong person thing and get cancel cultured to death. But also I'm aware that fear is a common phenomena for of old-hat social media kids like me trying to get back into the game.

So this is me trying to face the fear and move on, and I've mostly had a really good run. Social media has been how I've made most of my closest friends, lovers and best colleges. Aside from fear, i have really enjoyed being active online so... just do it coward.

This time facing social media, Ive set up a few dedicated work spaces!
One for drawing. - My room
One for craft. - My living room, soon outdoor studio
One for writing - My favorite local cafe
One for managing my social media - My brand new hot tub

Okay okay, so um... due to a bizarre set of circumstances, i now have a hot tub. It was broken and came with the house i live in, but it would cost like 5k to fix that none of us had. That is until my Dragon friend who is also an engineer moved in with us. Took him 6 months, but he fixed it and i am now a mermaid. That said, I will absolutely never mention this hot tub again on grounds that I'M jealous of me and I have the damned thing.
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I've been quiet on social media on and off for years, but i have been personally active in my own life this whole time. I'm pouring my energy directly into myself and recalibrating my values. These days Im better at recovering from emotional blows, setting my intentions, and being prepared for the best and worst life has to offer. Most of all, I'm little more tethered to my own reality, and for that i have little regrets.

My current art project making an entire JRPG with my ex husband Corillion, and is going really really well. Its a catharsis project for our old Roleplay Characters, so im not sure it'll ever get a full release, but ill probably let my Patreon and my Discord play it when its done.

I've mentioned before that i killed it on my health and weight-loss journey. It took time to get here, but im 70kg down and only about 10kg from my final goal weight. Been meaning to cue up a before and after soon enough to share now that im not as scared of sharing photos of myself.

Ive also just been exploring other things. Modeling. Acting. Singing. Pole dance. Writing. Cooking. Photography. Nature. Power lifting. Classical art. Its been wonderful discovering there is more inside me than vitage anime memes and trauma.

But no matter what i do, i still find myself missing streaming, chatting fandom, posting OC pics, making fan art. Just feel more like myself when jazzing nerd shit with other nerds.

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So that means, maybe i can go back to posting regularly? ... wouldnt that be nice.

Ill be working on the back end for each site in the next little while and hopefully get my projects cue sorted out again for the next year and a bit. Im not sure what will come from it, but

My hope is that in its final forms i can actually start garnering a real following, post regularly, feel like im accomplishing anything approximating career movements, and work all of that into a schedule that matters.

Most of all, I miss being a part of fandom. I miss sharing what im proud of and having a art community to be a part of.

So well see how this goes, eh?