Platforms for Artists: some thoughts and advice about where to go online
The steady decline of twitter and the general toxicity and user-unfriendliness of large social media platforms has a lot of artists and other creators scrambling to find different websites. Adult artists are in an even stickier situation, since twitter, unlike instagram, tumblr, and facebook, is a place where erotic content is still allowed. There are of course, niche websites and fandom spaces, but a lot of modern artists still rely on social media to bridge the gap and direct paying customers to their work. There's of course a lot of debate about where to go, what platforms to chose, and where to invest one's energy. The thing that I feel a lot of people fail to understand is that establishing your presence and your body of work on multiple websites is a lot of god damn effort . It's something of a job in and of itself- not just reposting your work, it's also a matter of getting acclimated and learning about a new website and its functions, finding your mutu