#i genuinely hope Elon Musk dies a sudden and painful death for what hes done

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As much as I dislike Twitter, and frankly most other socmeds at the moment, I'm very scared watching how quickly it's declining, how quickly everyone's engagement is dying. I understand where people are coming from when they say not to put all your eggs in one basket, to branch out and post elsewhere, but people do understand how difficult that is, right?

As an artist you're doing the jobs of 6 people when posting online, and then to have the added expectation put onto you to join other sites, learn their algorithms, learn their trends, cater your art to the people who use it on top of all of that? And to have to do that 3 or 4 times??? Even more because you never know if the next new socmed will be The New Big Thing!!! No wonder everyone is so fucking burnt out.

This isn't even mentioning all the machine learning bullshit that's happening right now and the exploitation of every single creative across the fucking board.

People rely on Twitter.

People's LIVELYHOODS rely on Twitter.

As shitty as it's been in the past it's also one of the most reliable places I've seen people get engagement. Art shares, Portfolio day, Ocs shares, Raffles - the speed I've seen people reach emergency funding goals? I know it's kinder to some more than others, but it used to be much kinder.

It's terrifying watching what was once a pillar of engagement and outreach crumble. I'm very scared for our futures.