It’s super frustrating. I’m a designer so I don’t make comics/illustration for a living but Instagram used to be my primary way of selling art and picking up freelance jobs. I only had about 5K followers but people saw my posts and activity on that platform generated interest. These days it’s literally not worth my time to post on instagram. TikTok has better engagement but I’m not really interested in making or consuming short videos…which I guess is why I’m here on Substack trying to find something more enjoyable and effective.
I have the exact same frustrations and experience. It's true for all freelance creators currently - unless they have already established massive name-recognition. That is incredibly hard to do now, but we have to somehow manage it if we are to remain relevant and remembered. Cheers for the comment!
It’s super frustrating. I’m a designer so I don’t make comics/illustration for a living but Instagram used to be my primary way of selling art and picking up freelance jobs. I only had about 5K followers but people saw my posts and activity on that platform generated interest. These days it’s literally not worth my time to post on instagram. TikTok has better engagement but I’m not really interested in making or consuming short videos…which I guess is why I’m here on Substack trying to find something more enjoyable and effective.
I have the exact same frustrations and experience. It's true for all freelance creators currently - unless they have already established massive name-recognition. That is incredibly hard to do now, but we have to somehow manage it if we are to remain relevant and remembered. Cheers for the comment!
By the way, to say it yet again as I already have: ORE was fabulous.
Hugely appreciated, Gide! Thank you! :-)