#marketing and selling

[batcavescolony]

THE TIKTOK PEOPLE ARE SAYING THEY MADE GONCHAROV!!!!!

[cokalee]

Tears of the Kingdom 🌺

[yestobetop]

The Art of ChatGPT Profit: Monetization Techniques for Financial Growth

How to make money with ChatGPT? What is ChatGPT? OpenAI created ChatGPT, an advanced language model. It is intended to generate human-like text responses in response to given prompts. ChatGPT, which is powered by deep learning algorithms, can engage in natural and dynamic conversations, making it an ideal tool for a variety of applications. ChatGPT can be used for a variety of purposes,…

[littledoepeach]

third fairy in my fairy series 🥹🎀🩵

[fantastic-nonsense]

comic sales are down because the industry is inaccessible and expensive, not because piracy exists

Higher piracy rates are what happens when you make buying comics expensive, difficult, platform-dependent, and inherently exclusionary while pretending trades and digital don't count as sales.

if any single comic book company decided to be a competent publishing company for even a year comic piracy rates would plummet

[chasiufan]

IM NOT OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP M

AHHHHH AHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[tapakah0]

[wearerofsocksart]

twink boutta pounce

[kottkrig]

Xal'atath's design is rad as hell but every time I see her in game model I'm disappointed by how cutesy her face is

You know already how much I dislike fem belf/velf being forced to all have the same young soft pouty big eyed face regardless of their character, which would be fine if it wasn't the only option for basically everyone who isn't Sylvanas

And the cutesy youthful >:3c-energy face especially doesn't suit a character as ancient and unsettling as Xal'atath, with her mature sultry voice (which is amazing)

Just... some wrinkles... some baggy eyes... something uncanny and voidy somewhere... traces of her body being a void-corrupted corpse...

[khuuxu]

Nagi 1000% believes Reo is the most beautiful man in the world 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️💜

[andrewknightley]

i love to see Davrin talking dalish stuff!! but i dont know if im looking into it too much but "that "their" at the end... "my kind" and "their camps" oh he really is more Warden than dalish, and he left his clan of course... im really looking forward to see that story

or maybe is just "they" in arlathan ause he is not from there MMMM

[buf309]

Well… is that face captivating enough to entice you to buy this W.I.S.E cosmetics collection? 🤔

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***Disclaimer***

1/ The "Honey" slogan was coined by @nire-the-mithridatist

2/ The perfume bottle was based on the real Spy x Family Fragrances

3/ The other two pieces were based on the lipstick and blush balm I randomly found in my mother's cosmetic bag.

[deoidesign]

Just some thoughts about recent WEBTOON discourse from an originals creator. I recognize my inherent bias in this situation.

But please recognize that saying "fuck you" to a company means supporting the workers, not making them out to be unfortunate suckers... "would have/could have/should have's" don't get people out of situations.

"I never would have signed with them" is an incredibly tone-deaf thing to say. "this is why you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket" is true, but it doesn't help people who are contractually obligated into exclusivity.

Most of us are making merch, running patreons, trying to get book deals, etc... and most of us aren't able to stop working and still pay our bills. we're trying. we'd all love to, but we can't.

If you really want things to be better, maybe try not putting down the people who are in the bad situation? it ends up feeling like people using our pain and mistreatment as an outlet to advertise themselves...

Our company is getting worse and worse by the year and we're risking a lot to talk about it! Please listen! The only power we have is complaining about things, and it's risky every time!

[frootlooptime]

ctub and ctommy r so redneck hillbilly southerners to me <3

[kairyudee]

ancient geometry 🦖🪴🟨

[genericpuff]

Webtoons Is Making Moves - So Should You.

We all saw it coming ages ago and now it's finally here. There's no more beating around the bush or doubting if anyone is "reading into it too much", Webtoons' use of AI in its more recent webtoons is not an accident, not an oversight, but by design, it always has been. And I guaran-fucking-tee you that the work that already exists on the platform won't be safe from Webtoons' upcoming AI integration through scraping and data mining. Sure, they can say they're not gonna replace human creators, but that doesn't change the fact that AI tools, in their current form, can't feasibly exist without stealing from pre-existing content.

Plus, as someone who's tested their AI coloring tools specifically... they're a long, LONG way away from actually being useful. Like, good luck using them for any comic style that isn't Korean manwha featuring predominantly white characters with small heads and comically long legs. And if they do manage to get their AI tools to incorporate more art styles and wider ranges of character identities... again, what do you think it's been trained on?

Also, as an added bit that I found very funny:

Um, I'm sorry, what fucking year is it? Because platforms like WT and Tapas have both been saying this for years but we're obviously seeing them backpedal on that now with the implementation of in-house publishing programs like Unscrolled which have reinvented the wheel of taking digital webtoons and going gasp physical! It's almost like the platform has learned that there's no sustainable profit to be had in digital comics alone without the help of supplementary streams of income and is now trying to act like they've invented physical book publishing!

"The future of comic publishing, including manga, will be digital"??? My brother in christ, Shonen Jump has been exclusively digital since 2012! What rock have the WT's staff been living under that they're trying to sell digital comics as the "future" to North Americans as if we haven't already been living in that future for over ten years now?? We've had an entire generation of children raised on that same digital media since then! This isn't the selling point you think it is LMAO If anything, the digital media market here in NA is dying thanks to the enshittification of digital content platorms like Netflix, Disney+, and mainstream social media platforms! That "future" is not only already both the past and present, but is swiftly on its way out! Pack it up and go home, you missed the bus!

Literally so much of WT's IPO pitch is just a deadass grift full of corporate buzzwords and empty promises. They're trying so hard to convince people that their business model is infinitely profitable... but if it were, why do they need the public's money? And where are all those profits for the creators who are being exploited day after day to fill their platform with content? Why are so many creators still struggling to pay their bills if the company has this much potential for profit?

Ultimately even their promised AI tools don't ensure profit, they ensure cutting expenses. The extra money they hope to make isn't gonna come from their content generating income, it's gonna come from normal people forking over their money in the hopes that it'll be turned around, and from Webtoons cheapening the medium even further until it's nothing but conveyer belt gruel. Sure, "making more than you spend" is the base definition of "profit", but can we really call it that when it's through the means of gutting features, retiring support programs, letting go editing staff, and limiting resources for their own hired freelancers who are the only reason they even have content to begin with? That's not sustainable profit or growth, that's fighting the tide which can and will carry them away at any moment.

I'm low key calling it now, a year or two from today we're gonna be seeing massive lawsuits and calls to action from the people who invested their money into WT and subsequently lost it into the black hole that is WT's "business model". This is a company that's been operating in the red for years, what about becoming an IPO is gonna make them "profitable"? Let alone profitable enough to pay back their investors in the spades they're expecting? The platform and its app are already shit and they're about to become even worse, we are literally watching this company circle the drain in the modern day's ever-ongoing race to the bottom, enshittification in motion, but they're trying to convince us all the same that they're "innovating".

Webtoons doesn't want to invest in its creators. We as creators need to stop investing in them.