This is part of the reasons why I haven’t written a Substack post/newsletter in a few months. I’m also getting fed up of social media. But I do like reading your stuff (hence being a paid subscriber), and seeing your art practice etc. Sorry, I haven’t got any well thought out answers for what’s happening, other than please keep being weird on the internet 😍
I actually think it’s good not to have well thought out answers💫There are enough ‘experts’ on substack, we need more people who openly admit they don’t know. Thanks for your support Sara, it really does mean the world x
I think social media is a busted flush now. I’m getting to the point where I can’t be bothered. I notice on fb there is much less engagement than a few years ago in art and sewing groups- they used to team with posts where people had made stuff but now it’s just a trickle. I can remember when any art course based on fb had lots of posts, people showing the art they created. Now nothing- the silence is deafening. I’m sure people are still creating but just not showing it on fb, Pinterest or instagram so much.
I’ve hardly had any engagement here, yet others rave about it- in all honesty I think that’s just part of the marketing strategy. Keep creating- that’s the important thing
Thanks for your comments Kim. Yeah, I think we’ve realised social media isn’t social anymore. I miss the good old days when we shared our art and followers actually saw it and commented. Pinterest just seems to be all AI generated imagery now, so boring. If I have faith in artists. We’ll find a way through this mess💫
I feel this for sure. Even on my own website, where I have some form of freedom, I feel the bars of Wordpress and the theme. And I remember that I used to just make my own thing and it could be “anything” even within the limits of the old web. It could be raw and messy and indecipherable and weird. It could be mine. And so I echo that yearning to just chuck it and make things.
I don’t even have a website at the moment because of the corporate-style templates on offer. Raw, messy, indecipherable, weird - that’s what I want! Glad I’m not alone.
Good angry stuff. Love it and agree
Every sentence in this piece resonates, I think you’ve caught the zeitgeist of Substack’s collective unconscious. 🎯
This is part of the reasons why I haven’t written a Substack post/newsletter in a few months. I’m also getting fed up of social media. But I do like reading your stuff (hence being a paid subscriber), and seeing your art practice etc. Sorry, I haven’t got any well thought out answers for what’s happening, other than please keep being weird on the internet 😍
I actually think it’s good not to have well thought out answers💫There are enough ‘experts’ on substack, we need more people who openly admit they don’t know. Thanks for your support Sara, it really does mean the world x
I think social media is a busted flush now. I’m getting to the point where I can’t be bothered. I notice on fb there is much less engagement than a few years ago in art and sewing groups- they used to team with posts where people had made stuff but now it’s just a trickle. I can remember when any art course based on fb had lots of posts, people showing the art they created. Now nothing- the silence is deafening. I’m sure people are still creating but just not showing it on fb, Pinterest or instagram so much.
I’ve hardly had any engagement here, yet others rave about it- in all honesty I think that’s just part of the marketing strategy. Keep creating- that’s the important thing
Thanks for your comments Kim. Yeah, I think we’ve realised social media isn’t social anymore. I miss the good old days when we shared our art and followers actually saw it and commented. Pinterest just seems to be all AI generated imagery now, so boring. If I have faith in artists. We’ll find a way through this mess💫
I feel this for sure. Even on my own website, where I have some form of freedom, I feel the bars of Wordpress and the theme. And I remember that I used to just make my own thing and it could be “anything” even within the limits of the old web. It could be raw and messy and indecipherable and weird. It could be mine. And so I echo that yearning to just chuck it and make things.
I don’t even have a website at the moment because of the corporate-style templates on offer. Raw, messy, indecipherable, weird - that’s what I want! Glad I’m not alone.