#content struggles

[skymanta414]

I got over 1k views on a video, and I didn't deserve any of it.

I'm a small content creator, so I tend to only make videos that interest me, or that I'm passionate about. However, since I'm a music channel on YouTube, that's the only type of content I make. Despite this, many issues that I see with content have been troubling me, so I had to speak out about it. Please read this FULL POST if you care to respond to it.

The majority of the content on my channel is covers of Friday Night Funkin' songs, which is honestly typical of content for that game on the platform, and I use it to promote the mod that I'm working on. It's something I'm passionate about, and I hope that it pushes the mod itself into people's radars, so they check out that rather than the covers. I always credit the FLP I use in the description, so people can do the same thing as me. (Trust me, this is all relevant later.)

The highest view count on any of those videos is the one that happens to be the first video on my channel, with over 600 views. I'm not ashamed of that video, and I don't see a reason as to why I should delete it.

I've gone into making other, original music pieces as well, rather than just covers. One specific example is a Deltarune fan song. I had repurposed this exact song three or four times until inevitably settling on this use.

Around 250 views. More than most other videos on my channel, currently ranked #4. I'm proud of it for the most part, but I sure as hell can make better music than it now, seeing as its inception was around a year ago.

However, I also make original songs for original works. I have posted a song for a story I'm writing hosted on MSPFA (which I would appreciate if you checked out) that is up to my song writing skills. Only a demo track at the moment, but I was hoping that if anything, I could get a similar view count to my other videos.

Currently, after a month of sitting on my channel, it has sat under 30 views. Despite it being one of the only videos on my channel that I've promoted across other platforms, it has performed the worst out of all of them.

The final nail in the coffin for this was my latest video. After seeing a request on an FNF forum asking for a specific cover with art to go along with it, I decided to go for it since it would be barely any work. I got full permission from the artist (@sillylittlegaymer) to make the video using their art, and I released it not thinking much of it.

Two weeks later, it's my highest performing video on my channel so far. I didn't make a single asset from it. For any other video, I either made the chromatics, wrote the music or (in the sense of a SiivaGunner style rip) edited a preexisting track with my own skills.

I may have gotten permission from the artist and linked all resources in the description, but I feel like I didn't deserve any of it. I didn't write the song, create the chromatics or draw the art. All of it was gathered from others who poured their heart and soul into their creation. I just mashed them together in a DAW and called it a day.

Sure, I made a minimal visualizer, but that isn't enough. That video hasn't added any traction to my other videos, and I doubt it will. This is promoting an unhealthy mindset that you can get away with lazy video creation and bank off of it and I won't stand for it.

I will be keeping the video up, but I beg that someday the content that I'm proud of and make with my own self rather than cashing off of other peoples creations gets recognized.

In attempts of making popular jokes on the internet where they work, creators will try to promote the things they care about creating underneath the popular post they made, only to get little traction to their real content after. It's really sad to see that the one off-joke someone makes on twitter, or any other platform blows up and they end up rummaging for scraps in the replies with attempts at getting people to follow them for real art.

It's not to say the popular thing they made didn't deserve to get popular, but in my case, it surely didn't.

Thank you for listening, and please support independent creators on their original works, detached from any media property.

[teazart]

[theoverboardgaygirl]

frfr

[saturngalore]

paraíso afro puff 🍹

hi im back with my first afro puff in months! it was inspired by this cute hairstyle i saw worn by ginger (khanya mkhize) from the tv show, one on one! it comes with front (v2) and side (v3) braids that has brown multicolor beads since i always wanted to have/make a hairstyle with that bead combination!! the beads also comes in 29 additional swatches located in the left lip ring piercing section. v1 of the bead accessory goes with v2 hair and v2 goes with v3 hair. 2 bead swatches are inspired by the pan african flag and several more are inspired by different pride flags: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, nonbinary, asexual, genderfluid, genderqueer, intersex, and agender. please note that the hair only has 4 beads so i tried making the beads as close as the different flags as i could (i tried an ombré rainbow one and it looked terrible so im sorry!) but please let me know if anything is weird or incorrect! happy (late) juneteenth, happy african american music month, and of course, happy pride yall!!! i hope y’all enjoy! 🫶🏾🏳️‍🌈

base game compatible (bgc)

maxis palette (24 swatches)

teen-elder

both frames (the hairline is a little glitchy for the masc frame)

not hat compatible (some accessories can fit!)

2 versions of bead accessories (29 swatches)

custom thumbnails

disallowed for random

all lods

please tag me if you do use my cc! i would absolutely love to see it! also, please let me know if you encounter any issues with my cc! here’s my tou.

download via simsharefile (sfs) or on my patreon - ALWAYS FREE!

tysm to cc rebloggers! @public-ccfinds @sssvitlanz

[ionomycin]

At the moongate, I set you free

[yeehawgeek]

[yesmissnyx]

An Unsexy Post About Censorship

Sooo...gumroad is shutting down NSFW content sales because of Stripe and Paypal. This is also why Wishtender has been down as well, if you weren't aware. And why Patreon is also cracking down on anything remotely kinky.

(If you're wondering why your favorite FICTIONAL sexual content isn't allowed on most platforms, it's payment processors.)

Please be extra kind to anyone who works with NSFW content right now, whether it be art, writing, audio, photos or video. Whether it be tasteful erotica, or the kinkiest BDSM porn you can think of, we're all in the crosshairs right now.

And, judging by trends from these past few years, this is only going to get worse.

Support NSFW creators where you can, whether by tipping or buying our content (where you still can) or just helping boost content on sites where algorithms want to drown us out.

Call representatives where you can and complain about payment processors acting as arbiters of what YOU are and aren't allowed to pay for and enjoy.

This may be about porn right now, but censorship of this caliber doesn't just stop with porn. Any transgressive (read: non-conservative) media is fair game.

Fight against it where you can. Support creators where you can.

Art is important. Reflections of our sexuality are important. We don't want a world where people aren't free to make or see the things they love and enjoy.

[kiilttis-art]

Cozy aimsey

[visenyaism]

this is gonna get me put on a list somewhere but if Rhaenyra and Daenerys could have met they would not end that interaction as friends Rhaenyra would be putting Daenerys in the SJW cringe compilation

[dawnsedits]

Come on! Faster!

[oddsconvert]

I'm sorry... what the hell do you mean "I have to write the content I want to read about my OC's"?¿?¿?¿? You mean it won't just magically write itself for me to keep me warm on a cold winters night???

OUTRAGEOUS

[swervesfirstblaster]

best tf scene ever

[toxooz]

replaying rdr2 (mainly to just stay in ch2 shhh) and my Arthur infection has flared up again 🥺 there may b long haired Artar fanart in the future cause that look is growin on me 

[beartitled]

how did Euclid go about experiencing the third dimension for the first time? did Scalene have to like physically show him what was different somehow, or did he figure that out on his own?

also, why does Euclid wear eyepatches over his injured eyes, but Scalene doesn't wear an eyepatch over her (one) injured eye?

also also, here's a random headcanon I wanna share: since the mutation attempts are numbered 1 through 4, and Euclid's attempts are #1 and #2, I get the feeling that he volunteered to try to mutate first so Scalene wouldn't have to risk her own eyes as much. even though both attempts failed in the end, they improved the mutation process through these failures, and so Scalene's last attempt finally succeeded.

A person who noticed the implications 😈

Ok I will go in order

Euclid and third dimension

I imagine this was extremely confusing for him

Picture the scenario where you’ve been speaking your native language your entire life

And somebody says “you been speaking with a thick accent and wrong grammar, also all things are called differently, you have to relearn now”

You will try to speak “correctly”, but slipping into old habits when you’re not thinking about it

This is pretty much how Euclid felt when his wife said that “ok imagine a square, but it has another one, and another one, and another one, but they are one, like you know… ummm… mmmermm.. you get it right?”

He still thinks, imagines stuff and dreams in 2D

But he’s kinda adapted to moving around in this weird world that has so many copies of things in it

Also one person had a headcanon that Euclid has an exceptional hearing

I 👏adore 👏this idea 👏

I don’t remember who exactly wrote this comment, there are so much cool headcanons people have actually, I need to keep a file on cool ideas with credits™️💥

Why Scalene doesn’t wear an eyepatch

Well

Her eye doesn’t look that bad

First attempts have a kinda brutal aftermath, because they had no idea of what they’re doing

+ I an eyepatch would be a bit unpractical for the successful eye

Headcanon

My guy

🫵You get it 🫵

This is exactly what I wanted to hint towards

Euclid was completely against of Scalene trying to mutate her eyes (he loves his life guys 🥺)

So his initial plans was 2 attempts, if they fail they’ll find another way

But you see, when your wife is stubborn

You don’t really see what she’s up to

And can only hear that she did not agree to the initial plan

He was terrified when she started testing the 4th eye

I’m writing this and going to eep immediately after, wish me good dream horrors guys 😎

Thank you for your ask❤️ Hope everyone enjoyed a lil essay 🧐

[g1ngerbeer]

the struggler 😔

[metukika]

my favorite guy