>>7598423 (OP)That's why I gave up on trying to make art my job. Constantly chasing numbers and trends. Constantly worrying about exposure and growth. It's damaging your soul—with most artists not even realizing it—blaming themselves or someone else.
Pursuing art in this way is nothing more than twisting and perverting the childish passion within you. You're violating the one special thing that you've been using for human expression and connection, molding it into a content machine—a thing with its sole purpose in life being…making product—leaving you only with emptiness and numbness at the end of it all.