Real talk, is this worth buying? Does it affect your numbers?

don't give the jew money

Don't be so desperate. It's off-putting.

>>7622879
>>7622880
I depend on art for making money, so I'm looking into any way possible to increase my reach, if I was a hobbyist I wouldn't even think about it

>>7622881
Tbf you just need someone with a blue check to repost your art. If you are actually good it will happen

>>7622881
Don’t spend too much time on 4chan. Get a real job.

>>7622906
Why are you on this board if you give this kind of advice? Might as well say "stop drawing"

>>7622915
He's right, though.

>>7622917
Yeah yeah forgot to mention how we should all code instead, wish I could give you reddit gold for such good advice

>>7622876 (OP)
The site is mostly made up of bot and sock puppet accounts. If you could find a way to monetize engagement and net some passive income, sure. Don't expect any meaningful interaction, though.

You'll be spending your time posting ragebait in random comments in order to gain money instead of getting more attention towards your art, I advise against it

>>7622876 (OP)
If you interact with people a lot, yes it's pretty useful. If you don't, it's worthless.

>>7622876 (OP)
Yes it has a measurable effect on the algorithm, and you need it if your account was made recently to remove restrictions. This is all public knowledge. The $8/mo is a writeoff.

You can also hide your checkmark if you like, but it's a good deterrent against the kinds of vindictive assholes who would cut off their own access to your art over petty reasons.

>>7622876 (OP)
elon is a homosexual.
If you really want your artwork get traction, post it on multiple sites.

>>7622876 (OP)
>Does it affect your numbers
Yes, immediately and tangibly, but I'm not sure how real it is.
You can immediately tell which artists have boosted accounts because they're all rocking at least 25k+ followers, but their engagement is dogshit and their comm rate is neglible, I honestly think that you're basically paying to get bot-boosted.

/ic/ has fallen so far god damn. Literally all anyone cares about now is clout chasing.

>>7623047
Is being bot boosted particularly bad if an average coomer sees a big number and decides to trust the artist because of that? Of course it looks bad if you have thousands of followers but only get a few likes

>>7623048
Not true, I care about clout because I need to make money with art, being popular is the prerequisite. There are still a lot of people who do shit in ms paint for fun

>>7623049
>average coomer
If you're making coom art you 100% don't need premium at all, that stuff gets mad traction regardless as long as you're remotely okay at it and still gets decent engagement long after you've hit 100k+ followers.
Coom artists can talk about just being mercenary all they want, they're definitely in it for the love of the game, because the number 1 thing coom artists love is other coom artists.

I mean you can still boost if you feel like it and $8 a month is negligible to you, it doesn't matter, none of this matters. Can think of it as just buying an ad I guess.

>>7622876 (OP)
I don't care about signal boosting. But I'll probably get it to get rid of the ads or for Grok if it's still not that censored. But it looks like Grok is also neutered so meh, it's not worth it

>>7622920
He's right though

>>7623050
Are you legitimately retarded?
>>7623048: damn, /ic/ only cares about clout chasing
>>7623050: no, I’m clout chasing
Wtf.

>>7623085
Saying everyone cares about clout and then quoting one guy to prove your point, epic troll or stupid?

>>7623050
>I care about clout because I need to make money with art, being popular is the prerequisite
Well, you're wrong. You've never heard of 90% of the artists that show up in game, movie and tv credits so you quite clearly do not need to be popular to make money with art. Furthermore being popular does not require social media. Authors can be quite popular without ever touching social media. Very, very few manga authors got popular through social media before becoming authors; their popularity came from their authored works. If anything "popular social media artist" is just a tiny tiny fraction of the amount of artists making a living with their art.

>>7623123
Trad artists don't require online clout. Digital ones do.

>>7623186
Because trad artists can't make money regardless! So why bother.

>>7622876 (OP)
I refuse to buy x. Maybe i'm missing out. Not sure

Does this actually make view go up or no? I gained 700 followers the past week after two posts that blew up but on the rest of my posts the views are the exact same as before.

>>7622876 (OP)
yes
and even if it's an insignificant amount of money, I won't pay it as a matter of principle
same as adblocking instead of paying for jewtube

>>7623186
You're still wrong for the exact same reasons already listed in the post you're replying to. What makes you think the medium chosen to draw in makes any fucking difference here? Are you gonna say that painters need to paint in oils not acrylics or they won't get any traction?

>>7623313
One solar flare could wipe out all digital artists in an instant while traditional ones would just continue making their shit. There is no solar flare equivalent for the latter, since you can make art with a stick, the fact I have to bring this up is already embarrassing. Where do you think digital artists post their work? Is it then so outrageous to say that they rely on online metrics to exist at all?

>>7623050
Being popular is not the prerequisite. In fact, being popular is often an issue with sustainability.
What you want is REACH. Reach is not popularity. Reach allows the highly-interested people to find you, and pay you.

What >>7623123
didn't grasp in his attempt at a response, is that those people still have REACH, it's just targetted within specific circles (industry ones, in this case.)

>>7623642
That would also kill a lot of trad artists because we (as I am one) rely on people who make use of computerized design, manufacture and logistics to produce our materials.

>>7623011
As of last year you can't hide the checkmark anymore.

Yes

Kind of off-topic, but is it worth creating a Twitter account if I won't be posting many illustrations? Most of what I draw is for a client who hides much of this content behind a paywall.

>>7622881
You're better off targeting smaller communities with less competition rather than paying somebody money for 'priority' in an oversaturated hypercompetitive market. Once you have a good enough following you can start considering paying the jews as it will yield more results that way.

>>7623797
currently twitter is the best place to collect your images because doesnt compress and fucks the images, second because of the fallery option that actually works as gallery and separates the topics from text posts, and because is easy accesible for most of people, on the planet.
Instagram is an ok gallery but very much inferior, first fucks up your images on the compressing process, second it limits your images because their fixed aspect ratio to upload (super retarded shit because the site is heavily focused on social media scrolling si everything needs to have the same aspect ratio), and also you can't use any search option at all there more than the tags that are bullshit, on twitter you can at least search words on the bar, and on the same user, along with the tags, etc.
If you want more professional looking shit ould be artstation.

>>7623833
insta requiring you to pick a preset aspect ratio is the most bull fucking shit thing I ever seen on social media I hate it so god damn much

>>7623907
Instagram has always been dogshit, not that long ago you weren't able to post images AT ALL unless you used the mobile app

>>7623669
>is that those people still have REACH, it's just targetted within specific circles (industry ones, in this case.)
They just applied to a fucking job. I know people who work in video games and animation projects. You just apply to job listings. It's not some magic system where if you're in you're in. You apply to a job. You work that job until the job is over. You look for more jobs. IT'S JUST A JOB. Popularity is completely irrelevant. Reach is completely irrelevant.

>>7623797
Not really. It takes forever to game the algorithm so you're only getting art posts instead of interaction bait, and art directors don't scroll twitter to hire, they go straight to artstation or their email inbox.

>>7624059
>nepotism doesn't exist goy, you just need to work hard and apply for the job!

>>7624135
Nepotism does exist. But you can still just apply to jobs and land them. Why is everything black and white with you disingenuous retards?

>>7624144
As the time passes, we learn more about how industries work and all the top positions are taken by someone's friend or relative. Yeah of course you can get a job after applying, as a junior artist working poverty wage

>>7624151
>all the top positions
Good thing we're not talking about the top positions you double nigger.
>guy says he needs to make money with art
>point out you can just apply to a job
>NOOO HE CAN'T BE AN ART DIRECTOR MAKING SIX FIGURES WITHOUT SUCKING COCK IT DOESNT COUNT
Fuck you time wasting faggot.

>>7624168
The problem I have is you gotta spend years of learning just to earn less money than a gas station clerk, unless you have connections. Prove me wrong.

>>7624059
>>7624144
>>7624168
Thirdie detected, opinion discarded.

>>7623078
You are brown
nta