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I have tried to use red note for a few years (i'm chinese)it's quite problematic when it comes to copyright...i hope people would translate and read through their terms and conditions about how they use content that have been uploaded on their platform, personally i dont use it. at this point i feel like i'm just gonna start a blog... 🥺😮‍💨

Social media is so exhausting and before its final collapse and I feel has been for years. I miss what it used to be, but I have hope we will have that again. I’ve mainly been on Bluesky, UA-cam and discord. I am also tired of going around and around to see what sticks. I had no idea Instagram was using peoples selfies to make ads wtf??

I miss how great instagram was for posting art, it sad to see the quick downfall of these platforms :( but I also feel like not only are the platforms changing but the art space within social media is also changing drastically and quickly.

i wish i could use bluesky more but i do alot of like animation stuff and the size limit on files tends to make it super diffcult to work with , though its totally understandable with the history and present state of the site

People never needed software to steal art before so why is that the narrative now?

3:37 If I wanted to speak to a robot, I'd call Koodo mobile

I heard you can skirt TikTok's ban by using a VPN to create a new account claiming to be from another country. The art community could come together a make a fund-supported art Booru. There are tons already, but they seem to mostly be hentai. Maybe add some anti-scraping & AI poisoning to it. Old forums are another option. The problem is finding an active one & getting everyone to go there.

Like Pinterest & Facebook, DeviantArt has gone full AI. I guess people don't super trust ArtStation anymore & it's really just for video game art. Not really sure about Pixiv or Tumblr because I can't remember my passwords. Twitter, TikTok, & UA-cam are too toxic & need live moderation. Etsy went from a place to sell your art to a TEMU clone. Anything you post on Instagram is unlikely to be seen. FurAffinity is only for furryies. Elfwood shut down a long time ago. PhotoBucket & Flicker fell off when they tightened storage limits & started doing subscription fees. Only place left I can think of is Reddit & BlueSky.

my sketchbooks are far from chunky because it seems too impractical, but sometimes i glue random stuff like food packaging in mine as a way of remembering future me that i tasted something new or what i liked at the time! But to each their own, what actually makes me frustrated are those perfect "sketchbooks" where each spread has amazing composition and finished ilustrations.

Thinking of using my website…but also UA-cam. I have access to the community options.

theyre significantly smaller than most mainstream platforms by a longshot but i like pillowfort (this sort of tumblr-reddit type hybrid) and cara (art-centric twitter). theyre not without issues but both are explicitly anti-AI. pillowfort is especially nice as they allow NSFW content, which can be easily filtered. but they can be a pain to learn/use though, and their smaller userbases will likely be a turn-off for those whose income relies on being an artist online

DeviantArt was huge in the early 2000s! Perhaps artists should start moving there again? It has its share of AI-generated art, but it’s uploaded by real people, as far as I know.

Thanks for your comments, Amanda. CARA is a good alternative. No AI slop is allowed, and the members are thoughtful and congenial. Many different styles of work. The site is run by and owned by artists, so it won't be controlled and manipulated by our current crop of brain-dead billionaires.

No, internet works fine, social media works fine. Technology can't help that Americans have become mentally ill, running around instead of being treated by a shrink in a facility. You can recognize them at their blue hair dye, gobbledygook pronounces, diehard vegan principles even if it destroys their bodies and basically think that the law of nature doesn't apply to humanity.... that biology doesn't exist and everything is a social construct.... totally loopy for sure.

I'm not an artist (yet?) but I've been looking into Pixelfed, it's Instagram but federated, witch means there is no centralized owner to ruin everything. It's kind of confusing but I think that federated apps like Mastodon and Pixelfed are probably the best long-term solutions. Unless bluesky just works out. But I am definitely scared that Bluesky being centralized is more susceptible to bad actors.

I still have a space in deviantArt from the early 2000s but is centuries i don't post anything, plus they seemingly use your art to train AI too

Make a website *please*

we need more protocols and less plataforms, making money from social media goes against its functions, like paying to use public transit

I miss when the internet was websites.

This is 100% my experience alone, do not use me as an example to talk others out of doing art professionally. I'm a tattoo artist, and have never been good at social media, to my detriment. I've been struggling so hard financially, and my creativity has been at an all-time low since starting. I have decided to take a hiatus and suddenly I am having fun doing art again- not for money, no pressure for it to be perfect, just pure make whatever the hell I want without worrying if people will want it as a tattoo or not. And I'm extending that to my art socials also, I will now be refusing to use hashtags, refusing to play any stupid algorithm games, just posting what I want, how I want, when I want, and whoever sees it will see it. It feels so free, I feel like it was a mistake for me to ever try making money with art, it just completely ruined it for me. Slowly falling back into love with art now.

Bluesky, reddit, neocities, own website 🤷🏻‍♀️

I don't think the social aspect of the internet was doomed to fail from the beginning, because social media didn't exist in the beginning. the internet did just fine for a good ten years before myspace came along. people shared, created, things were good. if all social media collapsed and burned, i think the internet would be a better place. we could go back to each having our own websites. social media sites that centralize all that are kinda like walmart, in the way that it makes it impossible to have a small mom and pop store. the only reason you can't make your own custom bespoke page where you and your artist friends share their work is because everyone will ignore it and still flock to these horrible platforms.

I've been enjoying Bluesky, wanted to move, when I heard Meta's policy updates. I feel like Discord would be the only other option, for art community. I've even gotten a couple of commissions directly from Discord, and I can connect with other creatives in my niche in the visual novel scene. I also enjoy Reddit's smaller communities, because it reminds me of old forums. And I will admit Facebook groups was nice, I loved talking to people with similar interests. It reminded me of my days in university talking to people in my fandoms late at night over in Facebook groups. Hosting my own blog was fun, but it's such a lonely platform, you don't really get engagement like on social media sites. I feel now the pivot to communities might now be focused on niches on websites that cater to one group. And there's also still Forums that are active to this day, like for indie perfume.

Several youtubers I know talks about negative effect of AI...While using AI thumbnails. I don't know what's going on inside their head.

I can only think of 4 "Safe Spaces" for Art on the Internet right now - Newgrounds - Internet Archive - Rule 34 - Create Your Own Personal Website Which is just sad to see

I want to know why UA-cam ads have gone from mildly annoying to fully disturbing!

Wanna experience the internet like the early 2000s? Registering a domain and writing a website in HTML never stopped being an option

People are warning that posting on Rednote should be aware that a lot of art gets stolen there. Be sure to add a good watermark.

Yes! 💯

Rednote honestly is much worse from a national security perspective, because it actually IS owned by the CCP. It's actually funny to watch tiktok get banned and all of America jumping to the little red book. It's like pouring gasoline over a small fire and expecting it to go out. Nevertheless, artists need an platform where they can share human made art. AI is great at reaching the peaks of our imagination, because it is based on previous artworks done by humans, but it can only go as far as the data it's based on. Hopefully, humanity starts to realise the benifits on humanity being human. :) Robots are fun, but they exist only because we do, and so, I pray we all come together at once and stop this unneeded madness that's happening right now everywhere. Have a great day and stay hopeful about the future!

What do you think about having your own website?

I like the way you think and I find it somewhat interesting. You got a new follower from Brazil.

That ponytail ROCKS so I started sketching you while listening to this video. 😂💖 Keep up the good work.

I haven't posed art since 2018 but i did move to blue skys and i have tumblr devaintart i still kind use my Twitter im also sick of jumping form play to play i miss sketch that was nice place for awhile

I hope this videos gets pushed to right peoples ❤

honestly tumblr is still good, for posting art at least, and not dead as people like to make it out to be

The enshittification of the internet goes hand in hand with the enshittification of commodified art. The internet art space was not in a good spot to begin with. It's a very small inbred echo chamber full of mentally deranged people. Your art is derivative slop from pop culture, like AI art itself. Stop taking yourself so seriously. And recommending red note is a joke.

Are people looking for art anymore though? Kind of seems like social media is past the artist adoption phase because people prefer video entertainment in those spaces and so visual art isn't doing well overall. Not to mention AI is like an annoying sibling that makes us accidentally ignore the other child like with Pinterest. Since it's already an uphill battle I don't imagine we could convince enough artists to dedicate themselves to the spaces to make any one of them a home. Seems like the art and social media thing is straight up over. It's probably just a waiting game now for the next wave of innovation to open a space we can all be free in again. I hope at least. Good vid tho! Definitely an interesting topic.

Come on, we know why they're banning tiktok, wiping an entire nation's bloodlines systematically is "collateral damage", but even mentioning it... that's "problematic"

Great video!

to share my own experiences with consumerism, i made the mistake of thinking that buying more art supplies was magically going to make me more motivated to create art. but only after i began to downscale my collection did i feel relieved from the anxiety, creative mindfog, and the holes in my pockets that having so many useless art supplies caused. now i'm consciously sticking with what mediums i'm skilled at and are the most versatile, from brands i personally trust, and are good for my budget as a broke uni student.

great video, i agree with a lot that is said here, i will say that i don’t think ai art will be that big of an issue as ai generated art already eliminates one of the main purposes of art and that is to love what you create, to love what you draw or put down on the canvas, and i believe that ai art fundamentally can’t have structure unlike real art because it doesn’t understand the fundamentals of art such as color theory, form and perspective, shading, etc. so until ai makes a major breakthrough i don’t think it will kill off art completely, other than that great video though, i agree with what you said here like with ai harming the environment and ai and it’s legal issues

I’ve even seen people try to say Generative AI is a good thing because it produces less co2 than human creatives- but they conveniently leave out that human creatives produce more co2 just by virtue of being carbon based lifeforms. Artists are the carbon that these corporations want to cut back on. If these AI corporations actually cared about the environment, I’d call this ecofascism, but let’s be real, they only really care about money and control. The environmental angle is just performative, neoliberal virtue signalling . They’re just fascists.

Love the point you're making here and definitely agree. I've find my art journey has definitely been staggered by a stress to make my "style" "good enough" but I end up just stressing more than I make art. I'm hoping to start experimenting more with my art and just letting myself learn and make what I want.

Love the point you're making here and definitely agree. I've find my art journey has definitely been staggered by a stress to make my "style" "good enough" but I end up just stressing more than I make art. I'm hoping to start experimenting more with my art and just letting myself learn and make what I want.

I just found your channel!💕 I’ll definitely be subscribing to ya!^^

omg this is absolutely something I’ve noticed as well… like, no wonder people are feeing uncreative, many of the artists you see on twitter etc are, to put it crudely: chronically, *chronically* online

my god I used to say that "im talented and not creative" nobody understood but I thought it

I really love your videos so much, honestly you ironically do deserve more views, the presentation of your videos are so good and your takes are soo refreshing and real

it's so weird to actually see a video that genuinely resonates with me? resonates in the sense that this is a subject i have tried to find answers in repeatedly, but nobody has actually tackled. as a preface for perspective, i'm currently 20 and for as long as i could remember i have had a computer as my main source of enrichment. it felt like for the longest time as a kid i was creating so much, but after senior year i feel like i can create nothing without this consistent anxiety and fear on balancing quality of my art and how consumable it is, while yet i am still desperate for something authentic. it doesn't help that while looking for something authentic, i am desperately looking to other artists to find a short-cut to that authenticity because they all seemingly have it figured out. obviously, this has done nothing for me but waste time for years. i suppose it was eventual, i had always been paranoid, but i never expected that "one day" it just felt like the core of who i was and what i loved doing would feel impossible. i had always figured if i could make it into art school that this would be fixed because of the environment there (i have always wanted to make art a career anyway, but just having somewhere to push myself would be a wonderful benefit even if the career never shook out), but even setting up a portfolio to fight for any finances to make it reasonable feels like a nightmare just because of how hard i have crashed out in becoming paranoid about all the aspects my art should embody. after seeing this, i really wanna push myself to try and live more. this will be a incredibly hard fight considering everyone else around me is just as attached to technology to where all the activities they want to do are linked online. i can't blame them, we barely even have the money to get through each month and with schedules that never align, and it certainly feels like the whole world is at your fingertips with said technology, but it frustrates me how that might turn me into an outsider to them because it's almost the basis for how everyone interacts at this point. i am not sure how to balance this, and thus i am very scared to start, but i do agree that one can't derive from a well that doesn't consist of one's own individual experiences even with the help of external work for inspiration. i am curious though on your thoughts when it comes to media though. media we consume can be very inspiring, and obviously consuming any media in mass is detrimental, but how much importance do you think there is in consuming other media when it comes to inspiration? how much would you say lived experience deeply influences ideas in one's practice? what does the balance look like between one's own life and the external media they consume? is one worth prioritizing over the other? its hard to think of clarifying questions to explain what i want to ask precisely, but it seems like inspiration and learning can come from so many places, yet how does one use those resources to confidently forge concepts and ideas for their own work without abandoning practice? it's a question i have never seen tackled before, and while i expect no response, i put it out there somewhat selfishly because of the chances i find something tackling something so important to me to begin with. thank you for putting this video out. this video has meant a lot to me if it isn't obvious at this point (haha..). i hope things are going well for you overall and stay that way for as long as they can <3