In some ways this might be more fun for me than youtube videos. in just a little amount of time, i've realized i've been distracting myself from the creative pursiuts that really mattered to me. there's a level of creativity that i can achieve here that any sort of social media platform just couldn't pull off.
of course, the tradeoff is that there's far more visibility on those social platforms.
But that's okay for me. i'm okay being a little niche online creative my whole life. as long as some people enjoy what i do, i'll think i'll be alright.
that said, I do wanna make creaitive work my career. i don't really know what path i'm going to take though. i had always viewed these online social networks as as backup plan, so that i could amas a following just in case the stuff i feel more drawn to doesn't play out. but now that's not really an option, at least not one i feel comfortable with.
but we'll see. there's still places like bluesky and tumblr, where i feel like i can post my work with a little more piece of mind. maybe i can find the right audience that way.
i do feel lucky though, it feels like people who make the kind of stuff i like don't have to play the social media game. as a writer and an artist, i feel like the sorts of palces i'd want to work are naturally gonna be pretty anti-ai, places like indie game studios.
but who knows...
right now i'm just gonna focus on what i love, and worry about all this career stuff until after college.
there's enough to worry about right now without knowing my full five year plan.
Man, this turned out to kinda be a bummer post... oopss