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Shill in other places like discord. post links to your art wanner you can in any places you can as much as possible. have multiple platforms were you post in parallel to maximize your reach. Appeal to niches and milk them as much as possible, focus on fan art of current popular series with dedicated fanbases while appealing in parerel to niche fanbses to multilayered support.

Keep a few close friend circles that only exist to boost your followers, like friends that have just a bit more followers than you that can share your stuff but not enough were they have a high chance of ignoring you, my rule is 1.5x followers. Keep a handful of underlings with way less followers than you for similar reason. even if you have 1000 followers if you have 10 simps with 200 followers you are nice time to time and trow a bone it will build up overtime, is about maximizing reach.

Personally I also like to use an information net using base egregorians that I created to keep people under my sphere of influence also, but maybe that's a bit too esoteric and schizo to be useful for the avarage guy. I will keep it simple and say having a strong brand and attaching your personality to it is very very useful, because people you relate you to your work and will see anything you do as part of an individual, that is what actually appeals to people in art.