aight sooooooooooooooooo...
Meta/Facebook is using it's AI to take people's images so it can "train" itself... So I guess Instagram and Threads is off the table for posting art. (there goes my legacy of recognition...)
Ever since Meta's new forced policy, my main area for posting has been in limbo.
So I want to know where... you guys wanna see my work. I'm gonna use NG as a side/external section, but I also want that one (or two) platform(s) I can mainly post anything other than just art (like how people have Twitter or Tumblr). obviously I'm not saying y'all have to sign-up for any extra platforms... I'm just curious if anybody uses them, and if so... I happen to be there. also I don't even know if anybody on my Instagram is on this page/vice versa.
Where do y'all want that to be?
Cara (an art/posting website that heavily and thankfully prohibits AI anything)
Bluesky (I use this instead of Twitter, and it looks just like it, minus the people simping for politics and idiotic toxicity)
Mastodon (kinda don't remember why I got it)
DeviantArt (I mean I'm chancing it... I don't really like to use big socials though)
No, don't ask about Twitter or TikTok. that's already well-off the table for posting.
(If you see my Twitter page, I just use it for occasional fan-art and commenting, but I don't post my work on it)
Yatsufusa
Sooo... I'm not part of your audience as such. But you write thoughtful blog posts which I first just stumbled about and then I started to recognize your avatar. Which leads to me on clicking on these things whenever our schedules happen to align...
Asking here is bound to return a bunch of "NG is fine" answers. It's the nature of the beast. From my perspective, it is important for an artist to have multiple places to host their stuff on multiple sites - especially if they do not run their own website. That being said, I see no benefit in ruining your nerves by sticking around on places that you don't like personally or where those who run the service do not treat their customers with respect.
Looking at your linktr.ee as it is right now, I'd say...
- It is incredibly ballsy to have your email so out in the open. O_O
- Patreon was always shit. From gambling with their customer's money (an losing), to them siding with Russia after Russia openly launched a full-scale invasion of the Ukraine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patreon#Response_to_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine ), to them casually banning NSFW-content creators without much or a warning. Maybe reactivate your ko-fi.com? I'm not an expert in monetization.
- Instagram just wants to feed their AI with your art. ( https://guardiasva.newgrounds.com/news/post/1463479 )
- Discord has full rights to every sample of your voice, all the things you say over their service, their app is spyware... They will 100% be the prime source of AI voice stuff in the time to come. And nobody will be able to sue, because everyone who uses their service gave consent to their outlandish ToS "because all my friends are using it".
- YouTube. Nothing more needs to be said here.
- DeviantArt has a hungry AI as well... Which seems to be their main service right now. That and pissing off artist with al the other shit they pull.
- (I don't know the rest or have nothing to say about them.)
Opinions on 'Bsky'/'Bluesky Social' have been 'unenthused', but if it works out for you and there are no other issues, you should keep it. ( https://desdrawings.newgrounds.com/news/post/1444912 & https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1231890 ).
Cara seems to treat artists well, but from what I hear it's not great for 'making numbers big' - because having an account there only makes sense for artists. It's too early to tell one way or the other.
I wish I could give you a brighter outlook. From what I can tell, NG is pretty much _the_ place to be for artists, but their 'Artist News'-section still requires the tender touch of a sledgehammer and a forge, before it becomes a useful tool for artists and not just a place for teens who drew a stickfigure back in 2019 to spam when they are bored in school...
In your particular case, it is probably best to focus on using NG for animation. Your Art Portal output is just not frequent enough to justify scouting you.
This has been @Yatsufusa, broadcasting to you live from hell. Take care, TrueWG.
TrueWG
Not sure where to start on this, I guess I'm gonna start with thanking you for checking out my linktree lol. Yes I do have an open email but thankfully that isn't my main email, that's one I made for contact exchange.
About Ko-fi, I kinda panicked and deactivated my debit information there recently because I was a bit eerie knowing that when people donate to you or buy anything, they see your real name and PayPal email... (and I'm not using a public email for PayPal, so yeah rip) I'm somewhat picky about my privacy. (kind of why I'm also picky about social apps and what info I give public on the internet)
And yes you are right about NG being the choice... only thing kind of stopping me is me thinking about the time I had to make a new account because I think I messed up my scouting thing. (M-bot kept scouting/unscouting me. not sure if it's because my pixel art was getting bad scores or because I was scouting people I apparently wasn't suppose to scout.) but I definitely have animations planned that will be timed-exclusive.
And about Patreon... wow, didn't know all that... I guess at some point I may gotta try youtube monetization even though i gotta get maybe 4000 watch hours (I think that's the number, but I don't post on it very much anyway), if not I'll see what I can do in the future once people wanna donate. my monetization online has been silent since I got a payment method anyway. might be too early for that. (+ i actually recently started getting paid for helping family)
honestly yeah Patreon was always so weird with NSFW stuff, whenever I wanted to see about uploading adult content (mainly for unfiltered animations) I was told I'd have to give them a picture of my ID and "a few selfies." then wait... I would honestly rather burn my ID than give it to any website. anybody could duplicate those if they're barely smart enough. (not to sound crazy)
but everything you said helped. most of my future stuff may be brought here. (space_invader emoji)