#god there is one reader who has been writing 100 words on a kc fic EVERY DAY for almost three months

[shinesurge]

I'm reblogging this for the day crowd but I wanted to add something else, because for the last year every time I'd warn this was coming I would get a small but spirited outpouring of messages about how upset people are KC never took off, or how upset they are they couldn't help. I have said it many times before but fans do in fact hold all the power for independent folks, like you know those booktok advertisements that think a character moodboard or fake fangirl collage or list of Funny Textposts counts as an ad? That's because those kinds of posts (when they are genuine ofc) are what generate interest in things. These goofy edits and this textpost thing I made have more notes than almost any of the individual comic updates whose art is being used, while I was looking those up in my archive I found this random tma shitpost from when it was updating, a totally ephemeral thing, and it got close to 5k. This one is longer but oh my god if you did this sort of thing for a little indie series it would do the work of MONTHS of largely useless hustle by the creator. It even talks about how seeing an active fandom generated interest in something they wouldn't otherwise be into!

You don't even have to be able to write or draw yourself, most of the most popular types of fandom posts are just! Geeking out about a character in a visible space, interacting with OTHER fan stuff when you see it to show people they're not alone, god a sincerely invested liveblog is the kind of advertising predatory corporations DREAM about.

AGAIN this is certainly not meant to sound like any creator is Entitled to this sort of thing, or to blame readers for failure. The reason I talk about it so much is because people on the reader side sincerely seem unaware that their visible enthusiasm, in spaces where it can break containment, IS the deciding factor, and at this point I am honestly unsure how else to explain this haha. But people keep coming to me asking how to help, especially if they personally don't have the finances for it, so here it is again. Honestly at this point one of the best things you can do to help Kidd Commander stay the hell alive is to edit a timeloop textpost over some choice Toulouse panels or reblog it if you see someone else doing that lmfao

Either way, it's nice that folks are Concerned, I appreciate that y'all are interested in helping out! If nothing else I hope this can help people understand this concept so they know what to do next time they find something small they want to support.

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