#independent content creators

[torakosama]

Miscelaneous fan art of independent content creators

In order: Redesign of Black Geeky Girl's OC, BinjoMonkey portrait, Demon Mama as Cooking Mama

[essektheylyss]

I know I joked about DVDs but in all seriousness, I'm really glad that there's an option for watching VODs that isn't on Twitch and YouTube. It's been mentioned a few times today, but both of the interfaces of these platforms have been increasingly enshittified. I simply do not use YouTube anymore because of how horrid the interface is. I caught up on campaign 2 entirely on YouTube (and sometimes via podcast) in 2019 with no issues, but it is straight up maddening trying to use it now, and I don't know that I would have made it through the campaign if I was trying to catch up today.

I absolutely understand being tired of additional streaming services and I am absolutely in the same boat, but I also don't know how many people really recognize how gutted media distribution has become in the last ten years in the name of convenience. We all kind of realize it, but it's hard to grasp just how extensive it is. We can talk about independent business choices separately, and we should, but when the only platforms on which you have the option to distribute your work are at best frustrating to use and at worst hostile to human life, when monetization services can censor anyone they please with little explanation and have been cracking down on any content they arbitrarily deem inappropriate, when it is not clear that centralized conglomerate social media sites will continue to exist in the next year let alone decade, it is genuinely crucial for independent creators to start building alternative avenues of distribution that they control now.

[ink-asunder]

"You're being entitled!" These bitches are asking us to fund their Hollywood-quality content dreams like Walt Disney pleading a bank he was in debt to to give him another loan to finish Bambi, a movie that did not see any monetary success until it rereleased seven years later. I have to pay so much big money in medical expenses every month that I don't have any "treats" (a starbucks coffee, a different subscription, etc) I can go without. I'm not the entitled one here.

[mr-laveau]

⚓Audio Announcement⚓

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[parasitoidism]

The most shocking thing to me about the hbomb video to me is the amount of people who actually thought the internet historian makes good content

[catcomixzstudios]

A bit of good news for everyone.

After the editor and chief of the longstanding gaming and culture network, The Escapist, was fired, the entire video-making staff followed him over to a fully employee-owned group called Second Wind.

These creators - most notably figures like Yahtzee who is responsible for his 15+ year old, short-form game review series, Zero Punctuation - plan to continue working on the projects they've established in one form or another.

As of writing, the Patreon alone is already hitting around $4,000 a month.

With all of the projects crashing or getting cancelled lately, it's genuinely SUCH a blessing to see such a dedicated team getting to not only escape corporate whims, but also getting such a HUGE outpouring of support.

[seawitchkaraoke]

I do really love people who have no idea what dropout is going "well why don't the watcher guys just join dropout then" that's not how dropout works, you're thinking of Nebula

[violetren]

I have realised the thing that pisses me off the most about people buying Blood Libel: The Transphobia Fund and then being sad or surprised by the backlash for it "because they don't support JKR or the Devs" is that to be an ally the absolute bare fucking minimum you have to do to be an ally to any minority community is not participate in or encourage violence against them.

And these piss stains not only failed to do that, they actively paid more than my weekly grocery budget to fail at that.

[flippantfoe]

additionally - when it comes to respecting boundaries, especially with the things that follow a sudden explosion of popularity and fandom for one person's works. if you're going to be disrespectful to content creators and directly try to breach their privacy; i suggest minding your own business and listening to what a creator says regarding their projects.

you're not entitled to do whatever you'd like with characters you don't own or demand a rapid downpour of content.

you're not entitled to a creator's identity.

you're not entitled to anything.

clown is one person and not a goddamn corporation. welcome home is their project and these are his characters. nobody here is entitled to a goddamned thing they're creating and you sure as hell shouldn't be horny about their characters in public.

not to mention: the rampant reposting of other peoples' fan-art (and uncredited, too) in the tags. can people stop doing that? i've noticed the resurgence of fan-art reposters in various tags ever since the tiktok and twitter folks migrated here & it's also quite disrespectful.

[1introvertedsage]

About me!

(KInd of.. I am an Introvert... don't expect a life story) 😏

With a connection to the occult from a young age, I am now starting to share my knowledge, services and experiences publicly, in an attempt to help heal this deep divide we are experiencing. The services I offer to the public are currently available on Fiverr. I have a few blogs/newsletters and sites I share poetry and write on. My style is eclectic ranging from Spiritual to dark. From everyday experiences to mystical encounters. Thank you for being here! Writing is healing. 💚Spread the Love💚 ▪️Support independent creators▪️ Connect with me on: My Poetic Side: Introverted Sage All Poetry: Introverted Sage Poeticous: Introverted Sage Substack: Introverted Sage Medium: Introverted Sage ▪️◾▪️ Inclined to support a Sage: Buy me a coffee! Check out my designs and buy some merch: Intsa Aesthetics

tbc...

[deathsdormantdaughter]

We are still putting this idea together, but I thought I would share some of our vision for future calls, promotion, and goals of this publication/project:

First for transparencies sake, it should be known that this blog is run by a neurodivergent system and as such there may be times when we are forced to temporarily shut down or outsource projects/calls/etc that allow for the best possible promotion of authors/artist/musicians/game designers/ect. possible. We will always give our thousand percent to the running of this publication, but please remember we are a single physical body and with a divided consciousness and limited energy and physical power. That being said, we are incredibly ambitious and have many dreams and interest in the next few years that we would like to explore! If you are interested click the read more.

Following the line of thought above, it should be known that as a system we have many different interests and pursuits in the arts. As such we would want to pursue audio submissions, visual submissions, written submissions, interactive submissions and recorded submissions. We have divided these interests into times of year according to when we will pay attention to them specifically and to enjoy bringing them to a wider audience. It should also be noted that all of these would have the same submission fee: 5$

We don't like to charge fees, but it is necessary to keep ourselves in a reasonable amount of independence and keeping the project going.

January 15th--March 15th

music, audioplays, musical art (such as soundscapes or other forms of using sound as an artistic medium--this would be a really experimental section) And would be published/promoted March 25th on this blog, plus on youtube, soundcloud, spotify (if allowed).

March 30th--May 15th

short films, music videos, recorded performance art, recorded plays, recorded monologues, and cryptidart which is something coined by me as something groundbreaking, undefined, new--just rattles the pervious held ideals of recorded art and what the genre can do. Would publish on this blog, as well as on YouTube. Published/promoted May 25th.

May 31st--June 15

RPGS, Tabletop and Board Games, Interactive Novels and Click Through Games (these would be published on itch.io [uploaded June 25th]) as well as visual art and pictures of *original* 3D prints of *original* characters and *original* fantasy/sci-fi concepts which would be shared here on the blog. [Concepts and visual/3D art would be shared in a weeklong upload frenzy between June 19th to June 26th]

June 30th--August 15th

Knitting patterns/Crochet Patterns/Loom Knitted Patterns to be shared in pdf form as well as printed as collection through amazon.com. The PDF will be shared on this blog. We will also be accepting photographic exhibitions of knitting projects to put in a weeklong "digital gallery" showing on this blog between August 25th and August 31st]

September 15th--October 15th

Poetry. short stories, CNF, and experimental writing. These writings will be shared as PDF on this blog, as well as a printed copy on amazon.com The collection will be themed and published on October 31st.

We would also do two retreats a year. (Not starting until at least 2024--but possibly later than that too.)

The first would be November 1st-8th. It would be a playwrighting retreat held digitally in which we present [1] 90-minute lecture on the first night and then host [6] two-hour workshops involving communicating with other writers and receiving feedback on projects and changes.

We would accept between 8 and 10 participants.

It would cost 20$ to apply and, if accepted, it would cost 250$ to attend.

The second would be December 15th-21st. It would be a poetry and visual poetry writing retreat held digitally. We would present [2] 90-minute lectures spaced out between [3] two-hour workshops to receive feedback on current projects and communicating with other writers.

This would also accept between 8 and 10 participants.

It is the same cost as above in both cases.

[binch-i-might-be]

okay so. watcher leaving youtube huh

I've been watching Shane and Ryan since like 2016 and everything they are involved in is an absolute comfort to me. I rewatch everything of theirs regularly.

that said, I completely understand all the points they made in their goodbye video. and at this point I've been consuming their content for free for eight years so to me it's really not that much of a big deal to start paying for it now. what's six bucks a month? I've paid more for stupider stuff lol

BUT with the general reaction of the fanbase and every single comment under that video, I really am worried if this is the right decision to make.

I want to see them succeed! I want more content from them for ever and always! but a decision this drastic could really make the company crash and burn.

for the moment I'll just look forward to seeing where they'll take their shows on a real ad free streaming service and hope it all works out for them I suppose.

[mr-laveau]

📕Audio Announcement📗

Eyo listeners! We have a new audio available to listen to and this time it's a script fill by the incredible @autisticempathydaemon as a second part to their Mafia Boss series! Hope you enjoy!

[doujinshi]

THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR ALMOST 1K ON TIKTOK

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