#put this in my art tag arnt I

[moonverc3x]

Yaknow sometimes I feel a little bad for not sharing my Discord doodles with Tumblr until I remember most of those doodles look like. Whatever this is.

[r0adrunner]

chara idle sprite animation i made a little bit ago im quite proud of it pls dont use without permission

[butch-bakugo]

"likes do nothing!" " Don't like my art if you won't reblog it!" I garentee you just lost at least 5 followers, made someone feel guilty for putting their reblog in their queue and are killing any traction than you thought you'd gain.

Listen. I'm an artist, a struggling one at that, but I still can not for the life of me find the source of audacity for some artists on Tumblr. First off! Lets dispell the myth that " likes don't do anything". Tumblr LITTERALLY has a feature that lets you see content similar to the things you've liked. You've probably turned it off but it's still there! Many people still have it on! Not to mention that the more likes something has, the more likely it is to appear at the top of its respective tag so yes, likes are doing something.

Second off: you are not entitled to your follower's followers. You are not entitled to your follower's blog space. Your not entitled to their podium and you arnt entitled to their attention. The amount of you who act like because someone liked your art and wants to see more of it, your entitled to their all their time, energy and attention is ridiculous. I do not owe anyone my platform. I don't owe you jack shit. No one dose!

What so many of these Tumblr artists who put little banners at the bottom of their art that say " reblogs > likes!!" Want amounts to.... Well... free labor. They are demanding that their following do this cool thing called networking and billboarding. Basically, they are demanding that because your receiving their content for free( despite them not understanding that free doesn't include litterally anything other than being free. No favors attached. Also no one is demanding that they give up their content for free, that was their choice.) you owe it to them to share them on your platform. To give them more exposure and talk about them to your friends so they get more followers and more attention. Did you know that that counts as labor? That being a networker and billboard is a paid gig?

Like I'm sorry no, your art isn't entitled to my platform because I choose to consume your free content. This is literally no different from people parroting and guilting their friends into buying an overpriced amazon-bought molded resin ashtray for fifty dollars so you can say you "supported your friend's small business." You don't wanna be a capitalist pig now do you?

If you have to guilt your followers to get attention to your art, your art isn't good enough to be shared and honestly? Your probably an entitled brat. Your also building up an unimaginable resentment in your following that will eventually kill your oldest supporters and scare away new ones. Whenever I see an artist I supported going on tirade after tirade about how people are liking their content but no one is reblogging it and how we clearly want their art to die and don't support them despite them producing art only for a small fandom and their art getting 300+ likes and 50 reblogs, I just look down on you like your a fucking toddler on the floor crying about not getting a third popsicle. Your so childish and entitled, you can't even enjoy the attention and support you are receiving, why the hell would I wanna give you more?

Some of you need to remember to appreciate that your even getting attention at all. Your certainly not entitled to it and you certainly arnt using it for good. Your whining and crying that we aren't petting your head and whipeing your ass. Get it together. Your not Picasso. Your not da Vinci. Your making five nights at Freddy's fan art. Your drawing YouTubers as plants. Your writing deku fanfiction. This isn't your magnum opus and you arnt entitled to the attention it would recieve.

It was your choice and your gambit to spend 300+ hours on that marvel x sonic cross over movie poster, you can't cry when the chips fall and you only get three likes. Its one thing to love your audience and it's another to try and dictate them. Sorry but your not convincing and the crowd is leaving. Learn to be better.

[isa-ghost]

Why is it that Sean only seams to reblog/like things from You, Lum1, Beka, Mr, and a shit ton of other ALREADY popular Tumblrs.. But hardly ever notices anyone else? I know of people who create Amazing things and post in the tags daily but NEVER get any attention. It's heartbreaking and very discouraging. I understand that you arnt Sean and can't speak for him. But maybe give some ideas/tips for getting your stuff noticed please? 👃🐷

Okay--

First of all, Sean never reblogs from me, idk where you got that idea but you’re severely mistaken. I’m lucky if he’s reblogged maybe three of my things I’ve ever made in the (barely) year and a half I’ve been on Tumblr.

Second, that’s kind of really shitty to call blogs out by name to someone that isn’t them. Just saying.

Third, I’m not really a popular blog. I really am not. Follower count means nothing and 99.9% of my posts that get a lot of notes are shitposts that Sean would never see/reblog.

And last but most importantly, being noticed is a game of chance for EVERYONE. Nobody has special privileges, and there’s a 99% chance Sean doesn’t even pay attention to URLs when he reblogs things, he just likes/reblogs whatever art/edits/etc that he sees in that tag that grab his attention for the small amount of time he checks into Tumblr.

There are so so so many people who post in the tag, posts get buried really easily. He doesn’t have unlimited time to go through the whole tag and notice every single thing that gets made for him. It sucks, but that’s the truth. Also, just because he doesn’t like/reblog a post doesn’t mean he doesn’t see it and it DEFINITELY doesn’t mean he doesn’t appreciate it. He’s said more than enough times that he wishes he had the time to interact with everything, and that he loves every single thing people take the time to make for him no matter what. The community is so huge and so many things get created for him that its just impossible for him to go through all of it thoroughly.

There’s no secret way of getting noticed often. The “people who get noticed a lot” are extremely talented and hard-working creators who make things frequently and Sean is more than allowed to enjoy their work. Everyone has favorite artists/etc and just because Sean is a popular YouTuber doesn’t mean he’s not allowed to have favorites of his own.

There are plenty of people, “popular” and not, who don’t get noticed; its just because its a game of chance. You can’t predict when he’s gonna check the tag or what he’ll see. It is 100% just luck that determines “getting noticed.” Plus, not only do things get buried in the tag easily, but Tumblr is broke as shit too so sometimes posts don’t even appear in the tag (even “popular blogs” have trouble with this), and tagging his blog is useless because he gets billions of notifications every day.

If you want to get noticed, be patient, work hard, don’t give up and hope you get lucky. That’s all anyone can do.

It’s not a crime to be a little jealous of people who do get noticed, its honestly a natural reaction. But calling them out, complaining about, or (I’m not saying you in particular have done/do this but many people have) sending them hate for getting noticed when you haven’t is just, to put it bluntly, extremely shitty. They don’t control getting noticed, they don’t know if they will be, and them getting noticed a lot doesn’t make them special or make people who don’t get noticed unimportant.

TL;DR: I’m not sure if I’ve made what I’m saying clear enough because I’ve kinda rambled, but at the end of the day- Getting your posts liked/reblogged is pure luck for every single person who posts in the tags, even the people that get noticed a lot. It can be frustrating to see the same names getting noticed often, but they don’t control anything to do with it, so don’t get mad at them or send them hate or anything like that (Again, I’m not saying you do or have, Anon, this goes for everyone). If you want to get noticed, just be patient, hope you get lucky, don’t give up, and keep working hard. It does and will pay off.