#i'm an artist not a marketing specialist

[fyresnow]

very much dislike that my account/art is probably not ever going to be really noticed bc I’m not on tiktok or instagram (or even twitter much) /: This is a trend that I really hate in the art world. You see this for everything now- painters, writers, photographers, graphic design, anything. If you don’t cater to the algorithm you get shoved to the bottom of the barrel or whatever. bite. anger. rage.

[hotvintagepoll]

Do you have any opinions on modern (post-1970s) movies that you feel capture the essence (in a good way) of Old Movies?

No, unfortunately. That doesn't mean I don't like modern movies or that modern movies aren't good, but modern movies—and here I'm really using modern to mean post-2010, so contemporary movies—have different standards for pacing, characterization, budget, and production that make it harder (or impossible) to capture some of the magic of old movies. Even when modern movies clearly try to emulate that old-movie feeling—I'm thinking of La La Land, The Artist, The Shape of Water, In the Heights—they play the homage too broadly, or they ignore crucial components that make the original films work.

There's kind of too much to go into here without writing a full essay, but essentially, the Old Hollywood system—ugly, failed beast as she was—made some movies simply more accessible to make, due to the ongoing storage of props, sets, master craftsmen, crew, and onscreen talent that could move from one movie to the next without pause. If you needed a dancer, he was already on staff. If you needed a fancy bed, it was already in the warehouse. That kind of longterm storage is invaluable if you want to crank out movies quickly and cheaply because it saves so much time on individual negotiation and sourcing. Modern production companies have to work out individual contracts for every actor on every film; crew members have to negotiate rental contracts and source pieces from scratch; if you need someone with specialist skills, you have to contract them specially at a high rate, which a lot of small companies can't (or won't) budget to do. There's sand in the wheels where there needn't be any. It's wasteful, and costly, but that's the system modern movies are made with.

Which all means that even if the modern movie system wanted to make a classic movie musical just like the old ones, they couldn't, because the talent isn't already there—it hasn't been trained up enough, and there's not that breadth of knowledge you can only get from people who have been allowed to work in the same department in the same place for decades. Movies like La La Land fail, for me, because they present themselves as descendants of Fred Astaire or Busby Berkley movies, while missing the bit where Fred Astaire was a master of his craft. When you watch Fred Astaire dance—or Moira Shearer, or the Nicholas Brothers, or Ann Miller—you are watching a true artist at work, purposely showcased by the studios because they already have them on contract. Modern movies, on the other hand, tend to take people who already have star talent (as actors) and try to convert them into dancers/singers—or they pull dancers/singers off of Broadway, but then they don't have the star power built in. You end up with lackluster musicals where no one truly knows what they're doing, or they do but they're not built up enough by the studios to sell. And that's me discussing just on-screen talent for musicals—there is a huge loss behind the scenes, as well, for all kinds of movies, where roles that would have been filled by union crew who moved continuously from one job to the next have been swapped for freelance labor who live with immense turnover, financial insecurity, and knowledge loss. You could hand me the budget and I could try to make an old movie, but the industry itself has changed so much it's impossible to recapture that charm of steady, niche talent, the amazing possibilities of bonkers set design, and the ability to take a risk on a smaller movie because the other films being produced by the same studio can help balance the budget.

I've talked way, way too much about all of this! Sorry, I just have a lot of thoughts—and the one above is just one of them; the talent loss and storage issues are only facets of a much bigger problem that extends to how we watch movies today, how we market them, what we expect of them, and what's allowed in them. It's a crying shame because the talent is still there, but times change and so does the industry, for better or for worse. (And, just again to clarify, I don't think modern movies are bad—they're just missing a lot of the juice old movies got to play with, even if there's more talent available than ever before.)

[jessaerys]

i love thinking about death note rammys like the L backstory one-shot tells us he was a little feral demon that required constant enrichment to keep him from mayhem and destruction and violence and at age like seven he asked for a computer (asked for it, allegedly nobody planted the idea in him. we dont even have time to unpack that) and then fucking. cracked the stock market and thats why the wammy, uh, foundation, is so wealthy

and then when that gets boring he becomes a detective because solving crimes was better enrichment. like it's about that deep. and listen im not an L specialist i'm sure a lot more depth can be read into his character idk. i just got here. but regardless that's the reason he gives watari which poses the questions --

why, then, would he need a successor? who built the L legend, and what was the purpose? was it watari? did he want legacy? generational wealth? power? glory? why not stick with one weirdo golden ticket orphan and call it a day ?

why were they running this unbelievably unethical indoctrination program where they psychologically tortured orphans for years into believing being L's successor was the height of human achievement and the only meaning to their lives?

L looms so large and transcendental and godlike over mello's and near's entire existence (and we can extrapolate other children at wammys) to the point that it costs them both their life. mello's dead, near has been devoured by the role of L. and he was just some guy. literally some guy they heard a lot of stories about. they were basically raised to have intense chronic second child syndrome

anyway i know the reason is because death note was written basically by the seat of ohba's pants and none of this was considered (my favourite tidbit of information is that mello wouldnt have died if the artist had told him he was fun to draw) but i'm gonna steal it and run with it and elevate the text because that's some the secret history julien + the greek class shit. this is how religions get invented

[roo-bastmoon]

Fractured and Adrift

I was going to write a big huge post with lots of screen shots and chart data and analysis that I'd saved on my phone, but honestly I'm too sick right now to sit up and organize all that. If you go on twitter, you see in real time what is happening, anyway.

Bottom lines:

it's very clear to me that ads, payola, pay to play, vpn and other "networking" tactics that go against what BTS has always been about have pretty much come into play--for a catchy, but ultimately impersonal and generic, pop single that was given to only one member.

I'm not just disappointed, I'm gutted. I don't know where to go from here, as someone who used to take pride in being an ARMY and stanning artists who made it to the top the organic and hard way, by being genuine and talented and real with us.

As always, I look to my ult-bias, Jimin. His debut album was abandoned the moment he hit #1, yet he continues on with this company and to be a team player. He was with JK on private time during a couple's holiday. He's been filmed with and is likely working on some sort of project with JK right now. These are my cues. So without any further information about what is happening, I will continue to follow Jimin's lead.

I am a person who believes in the potential and the very best of others until I just can't any more. But I also cannot hide from the glaringly obvious. Jimin was mistreated, and Jungkook was prioritized in ways I personally find dishonorable.

I don't know how much, if any, input JK had in this. He's got a Masters in Communications, a decade of industry experience, and owns stock in his company; but I also know that talent are very rarely given complete insight or say over sales and marketing strategies--that's external, executive business decisions. I don't know what conversations, trade-offs, or internal pressure came into play here.

At this point, I would say I'm very adrift.

I'm a good soldier. I bought the CD, I bought each version of the song, I added it to my playlists. But I no longer feel needed as a fan for Seven; I feel replaced by Scooter's dollars. And I don't feel any personal connection to this particular song, as catchy as it is. I was excited when the styles JK helped choose seemed to be an homage to Jimin's Face, but... now a lot of the elements of this work seem rushed and disjointed. I just don't know.

I'm very worried about what this rollout means for our 7, especially how they are supposed to come together in a fair and equitable way after military service. I'm trying to read through their book when I can stay awake long enough. Trying to trust and hope and manifest the best.

I wish there was more transparency, more communications around what the game plan is, and if the members are all on board with everything.

All I can think to do is to keep loving Jimin and the people who are good to Jimin, keep working hard for what I want and not invest energy and time into what I don't. I do believe that Jungkook and Jimin love one another.

But I'm... fracturing... inside. It hurts.

I'm very ill. Maybe I'm just too emotional right now because I'm so sickly. Maybe I just need more time and more data to have a more rational perspective.

All I can think to do is hang in there and wait to be more anchored in facts before I can decide what all this means--for Jikook, for BTS.

I'm sorry if this post isn't very coherent. I'm on a bunch of steroids until I can get to a specialist and the brain fog is immense. I'm gonna go rest now. I think I might stop posting memes and thirsts and other things for a bit, while I just focus on getting well. But I'm sending you all so much love.

Hang in there. Deep breaths. We will find our way. We will make our way, if necessary.

[nopanamaman]

If you couldn't be an artist/animator/creative of any kind, what would you like to do for a living?

It's not what I do for a living anyways, anon, I'm a marketing specialist lmao

But if I didn't have the option to earn any money from creative work, I'd most likely go into translation, since that's what I enjoy and have a degree in.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

The horrible emails in a YouTuber's inbox

I have a public contact email on my YouTube channels, which of course means it gets scraped by absolute hordes of spambots and mailing lists for crappy mobile games.

That's okay though, that's what filters are for, and I'm not much bothered by it.

Sometimes, though, you also get Legitimate Business Emails from real, actual companies who want to do real business with you. They market various services, multi-channel networks (no fucking thanks), SEO optimization and all the rest of the industries that perch on the side of influencer marketing and Content Creation™.

Most of these emails aren't worth talking about, they're just business. They're usually couched in excessively cheerful "Hello! My name is Content Influencer Specialist Assistant Manager, and we here at Influencer Service Provider absolutely love the content on your [[INSERT CHANNEL NAME HERE]] channel!"-language, pretending that they've watched even thirty seconds of anything you've made. It's annoying, but inoffensive, it's just how this kind of business is done.

Today, though. Today, my friends, I received a motherfucking EMAIL. A promotion for a service which seems to be motivated entirely by spite and contempt both for my work and for my audience as a whole.

There are two things I want to especially call your attention to here. First is the absolute 24 karat solid gold INGOT of a throwaway line, "boost channel stats and income without wasting your time on new content creation."

If I spent a whole week workshopping ideas, I don't think I could write a sentence that more completely communicates contempt both for my work and the ethics of my job, but also a single-minded drive for money as the only metric of any real value.

The other thing I want to draw your attention to is EIGHT FUCKING STREAMS?? EIGHT??? Four plus four goddamn motherfucking CONCURRENT streams, running 24/7 on my channel, constantly regurgitating my videos for no other reason except to game YouTube's recommendation algorithm and make the line go up?

Further down the email, they helpfully link a helpful and informative article they've written, which contains further magnificent wisdom:

I have stared into the Abyss too long, and this email is the Abyss staring back into me. This is an omen, a prophecy of the monster I could become.

If I ever become someone who runs eight continuous streams of re-runs, and who regularly shuts down and restarts these eight streams of continuous re-runs just to force them to show back up at the top of the YouTube recommendations, I beg of you, take me out behind the wood shed and put me out of my misery.

I summoned all of my powers of professionalism and politeness, and drafted a response:

Presumably, this is just someone whose job is entirely metrics optimization doing a very, very poor job of writing an email to a person who actually gives a shit about their job from an artistic point of view. Presumably it's just bad marketing copy.

But it thoroughly derailed my mind from getting any real work done today, so I am taking revenge by writing a blog about it, and hopefully you have... well, "enjoyed" might be the wrong word; hopefully you have been mildly fascinated by this peek into the garbage that populates the inboxes of YouTubers.

I'm serious about that wood shed thing, by the way. Like, whack! Just a quick, decisive strike to the back of the head, make it clean.

[mrs-monaghan]

I really think that both solo projects, Jimin's album, JK's single and his album, are really one and the same project. With all individual characteristics, individual experiences and everything that Jimin makes Jimin and JK makes JK. I made a bet with someone a long time ago that Jikook would come out of the closet in two years. Perhaps not quite openly, but certainly enough that you would have to really stretch yourself to deny it. Not that you don't have to now, because you do, but that's a different matter. I just know I'm going to win this bet. Coming back. JK has never given us a reason not to believe in what he's going to do. He's consistent in his treatment of Jimin and the other way around is exactly the same. There is not the slightest reason to believe that even terrorized by labels, he would do anything against Jimin's feelings. What makes me think that this is one and the same project is the way it was carried out. Gross injustice to Jimin? Seriously, what label puts itself through such losses for no particular reason? It does not make sense. On the other hand? How can you assume that JK agreed to treat others like this and openly favor him if it wasn't discussed in some way and ALL came to a compromise? Jimin in his lyrics talks about his past, closes a chapter of his life. JK, on ​​the other hand, by going strongly to the western market, opens a chapter. They combined their projects. It's the same road they walk together. Is this to show that they will be a duo? I rather doubt. I think it has more symbolic meaning if I'm somewhat right. I wish I had. If I wrote in Polish, I could probably write a whole book about the theory I have about this era of BTS. But I'm writing in English, and it's obviously not working for me. xD

What I wanted to ask, because I already signed up. Why do we assume something went wrong? BTS is great, but it's not great just because they're talented. It is the sum of the work of many people. They know what they're doing. They are specialists. In reality, not everyone in BTS has a chance for a career in the Western. Jikook has and actually, with my huge bias towards Hoseok and Yoongi, just the two of them. It all looks like preparation. I'm even inclined to assume that Face wasn't even supposed to be a final project, just an introduction to what Jimin really wants to come out to people with, but to do it well and with a bang, he needs someone who will punch a hole in his ceiling and the company "founded" that it will be Jungkook. They weren't prepared for him to be able to do it alone. And no dynamic decisions? If that's not what Jimin really wanted to show, if he needed closure, I wouldn't want to be supported with something like that if I were him. I am an artist myself and if projects are supported that are not what I want, it's hard for me to enjoy even my own successes.

Anon u made alot of sense I'm afraid. I cannot speak on this topic much because I am not smart enough to tackle this topic but I am inclined to agree with u, actually.

I also heavily wanna advocate for patience. We need to exercise more chilling and waiting to find out shit. Wait for the seven MV. Wait to see if the song actually gets spins. Wait to see Jimin's reaction to the similar concepts... just, wait. Assumptions just drive people mad.

Anon I can't add anything to what u just said, but I like this ask 😘

[winxwiki]

someday I'm gonna collect all the PK comics fanmail of boys going "witch is for girls so it's LAME" stupid ass mail war and how I believe this has contributed to witch being unpopular among boys (in Italy) unlike Winx welcoming male fans without judgement (even on the website there's always been the "specialist" gender option lmao). mind you PK was also edited by disney. it's the goddamn duck avenger

I wonder if Rainbow's team saw any of that and was like No. we're not doing this. double the audience means more money

I've read anectodes of boys buying Winx dolls as kids back in 2004-2009 to play with their sisters. or sometimes just by themselves. I've unfortunately not seen this for Witch. which is ironic because Winx is so much more sparkly and unapologetic in its girlyness and yet it got more male fans by just not being judgemental to its audience in its marketing

disney's self sabotage of witch as a franchise should be studied. they shunned away boys reading it. they aimed it at boys in north america knowing damn well this was gonna flop in italy big time. they made it drab and grey in the cartoon. they censored the comics. they mistreated their artists and creators so much they left and sued and kept bleeding talent. they sued Winx and lost. they made that reboot thing that's Not Very Good

[colormepurplex2]

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[play-now-my-lord]

i saw ur post on ip law, piracy, copyright etc. w regards to indie creatives and i want to ask something. i saw a post recently going around with a lot of notes that emphasised this idea that ‘you are not entitled to the labour of an artist’ and if u can’t afford their work u should save up or skip it etc. it seemed convincing because it was phrased in a liberal ‘protect small artists!’ manner. so how would you dispel this idea? is it a half truth or something? it seems wrong but i’m not sure exactly why

the kernel of it is true - artists should be compensated for what they do. I'm a pretty strong believer in not trying to beg art off of my friends or cajole people into lowering prices; if anything my friends who do art set their rates rather low for the amount of work that goes into translating someone's ideas into pleasing artwork. this is, of course, a bit apples and oranges between visual art and writing - because being a writer who doesn't do specialist erotica, I don't actually write on commission. I could, I guess, if someone was truly interested, but it'd be a mite weird, and certainly isn't the main thing I do.

the place I land is that in commissions-facing forms of art, the many forms of labor involved account for the price. an artist working on comms has to communicate frequently, translate from one medium (instructions, often vague ones) to another, and manage people's individual sense of ownership - does this piece go in a portfolio? can it be shown publicly? is it of special sentimental importance to the commissioner, such that they'd prefer it be completely private? These are areas where "emotional labor" or in even some cases stuff that is tantamount to sex work absolutely comes into play.

Another thing to consider: Visual artists will cheerfully perform their actual metier - that is, making visual art - for themselves, for their own satisfaction, to make friends laugh or smile, and in a sense commissioning diverts time that could be spent on the Work towards someone else's design. This isn't to say it's useless to work off of commissions, counterproductive, a waste of time, etc - but outside of a very few people, most artists will not lie in their deathbeds kicking themselves that they didn't spontaneously draw (say) a giant Falco from Starfox fucking a train more often, and money is a fair exchange for this diversion of a human being's limited time on earth, like it is for any other form of labor. (The ideal artist is petit-bourgeois in character - that is, owning all the capital necessary to sell their labor at whatever rates the market will bear - but this isn't really a judgment call, nor is it one-size-fits-all. Prosperous artists tend to be secure and have petit-bourgeois class interests; less prosperous artists tend to rely on other things for income and have different class positions altogether, generally either working-class or lumpen.)

I think the moral obligation of the commissioner is "don't be a jerk", mostly, and to the extent small-time working artists have any, it's towards class consciousness - don't work dogshit cheap for no reason, value your time as you'd see it valued, value the time of other artists as you'd see your own valued.

(ALL THAT SAID, there are plenty of people who do free comms and there's nothing immoral about taking them up on it - sometimes artists do want to stretch their legs outside of their comfort zone and draw new things, and between that and the free publicity, free comms can be a reasonable way to accomplish both. But don't expect miracles, obviously!)

[morinassociates678]

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[ear-worthy]

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this is so embarrassing but what's the difference between a management and a label😃. like how were modest and syco different from each other?

It's not embarrassing anon, don't worry! This was one of the first things I googled when I became a larrie, I guarantee you lol I'm not a specialist and I don't work with this, this is simply what I learned over the years (and with goolge lol), it can be quite complex though so I just tried to make it very very simple without adding too many layers, okay? If anyone feels the need to correct me or add something I missed, please be comfortable to just go ahead and add to my original post.

Record labels basically “own” the artists, so if you’re an artist who got offered a contract with a big record label, like Sony, they will basically make the most out of you in order for you to be more successful and profitable. If you’re a new artist, they’ll see the potential in you and they will develop you as an artist. They will set up plans and goals for you, like how many albums/singles are you going to release, in what particular time frame, what kind of music they want you to record, and stuff like that. And then they will basically loan you a shitload of money and make everything happen. From the conception and recording of the songs to promotion, campaigns, distribution, licensing, everything. And you will, of course, pay them back plus a percentage of your record sales. Roughly, around half of all the money you make goes for the record label. Most labels are considered controlling because they put their artists in a very vulnerable position with their contracts, they have too much “power” to make them make it or break it, and since their job is to make you succeed they definitely make it in a way where is most convenient to them. New artists are the ones who suffer the most, they don’t really have much bargain power or anything to lose when they first sign with big labels, Syco is one of the most well-known abusive and controlling labels in the industry because a lot of their artists came from talent shows like the xfactor. If you’re interested you can check here the kind of stuff Simon used to put on his contracts. Syco was a label that belonged to Sony, Simon Cowell had a 50/50 partnership with them. Last year Simon walked away from Syco, now everything that belonged to Syco is now 100% Sony’s.

1D = signed to Syco in the UK and Columbia Records (also owned by Sony) in the US.

Louis = signed to Syco for his entire solo career up until last year, now he is an independent artist with a partnership with BMG (it’s unclear the extent of this partnership though). He was signed Arista in the US but I imagine he also parted ways with them?!

Harry = Columbia Records

Management Companies are responsible for the more practical part of the business, they will represent the artist, set up more specific and day to day goals, they will coordinate the marketing and strategies and also negotiate with producers and label executives. They’re the ones who will follow you everywhere taking care of the logistics, planning and booking of everything. Managers are also responsible for a great part of a marketing plan, promotion and branding, they can *highly advise* you on what you should be doing in order to help you to achieve the goals set by the label. Management operates under the contracts of the record label, so they can control you and your image, a lot of managements are extremely abusive with their clients. What happened with One Direction was that since (again) they came from the xfactor, they basically had no independence to decide anything, Modest would decide everything for them.

1D = Modest management. Basically all artists from Syco were also signed with Modest. One Direction is officially on a hiatus, therefore there is no management at the moment.

Louis = Three Six Zero (Matt Vines)

Harry = Full Stop Management (Jeff Azoff)

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