Being an artist I tend to want to share the development of my art online with the world. Instagram seems the obvious choice for this, but I seem to lose out on exposure and I swear only 15-20 of my followers are actually shown the posts, and I have just over 1K. Every day I scroll through other people's work of similar styles and skill levels and they get upwards of 800-1000 likes a post.
Now I like to smuggle maintain that I do art for my own benefit and as a hobby, not for likes, but it's undeniably pretty insulting when you spend days and sometimes a week on these drawings and they stall at 15 likes in the first 3 hours of posting.
It just feels like instagram is working against me here, and is cucking my reach so that I buy ads, but I've seen peoples work grow organically so many times. It just gets exhausting when it's a major part of your life and your posts average out at 20 likes if that.
I've had countless people say stuff like "wow anon your art is seriously underrated on this app" and "how do you not have 30k+ followers?" and the answer to this question I really do not know. It's a bit embarrassing to have people fawn over my work, even anonymously and the algorithm just cucks my posts so they just get lost in cyberspace at 20 likes.
It's honestly making me want to quit. Any ideas how to push through this?
Now I like to smuggle maintain that I do art for my own benefit and as a hobby, not for likes, but it's undeniably pretty insulting when you spend days and sometimes a week on these drawings and they stall at 15 likes in the first 3 hours of posting.
It just feels like instagram is working against me here, and is cucking my reach so that I buy ads, but I've seen peoples work grow organically so many times. It just gets exhausting when it's a major part of your life and your posts average out at 20 likes if that.
I've had countless people say stuff like "wow anon your art is seriously underrated on this app" and "how do you not have 30k+ followers?" and the answer to this question I really do not know. It's a bit embarrassing to have people fawn over my work, even anonymously and the algorithm just cucks my posts so they just get lost in cyberspace at 20 likes.
It's honestly making me want to quit. Any ideas how to push through this?