whenever i'm not on a tier list i simply suffer in silence because i don't want to look like a little bitch asking to get included

How does someone even get recognized now for their work? Like, how to legit build up a decent following or get established now? Seems like social media is so cluttered and there's so much jockeying for likes and followers that it's competitive to the point where you'd need to put in a tremendous amount of time into these platforms to try to get any kind of momentum going. Time that should be spent making work.

All of the big artists were just already established before this whole thing took off and just brought their popularity over to it. Even then most of them are now resorting to posting reels and videos since tiktok has made that the standard for views. A lot of the bigger artists can afford to just hire someone else to edit their videos while they focus on the work.

It also looks like most of the audience for art on social media is just other artists. Not going anywhere posting still frames.

Not even going to get into the AI larpers who can just spam content every day to get ahead in the algorithms.

Is there any way to still make money off of art now if you aren't already established? Even just doing lame shit like busking or drawing caricatures on the street? How to make some bucks bros? What avenues still make any sense, like trying to make comics vs concept art vs gallery art vs tattoo artist, etc. or is it time to just embrace the doomer mindset?

Is it over bros?