[ SECRET POST #3038 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3038 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Once you get to a certain age it's really hard to keep up something without monetizing it. Fandom has always been monetized, it's just that now there are more venues open for small artists and writers to to try their hand.

Copyright is a little more complicated then most people realize, and always changing. The problem is you can't stop people from taking from stories, that's pretty much the history of art and writing right there. So there's always going to be legal ways to do it, and there will always be times when a company turns a blind eye (small time fanartists and fic writers tend to be good promo and don't really cost the companies, so you rarely see them going after someone unless they've gone way too far.)

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(AYRT)

But fandom's way of being "monetized" wasn't the same before as it's now.
Before, most of it was based on actual physical products and even then most* people did it for the love of it (even if they managed to make some cash out of it), instead of doing it as their side business.

Now, it's more and more "creating for money" and a such thing changes the content far more than most people notice.

I mostly miss that honest love for something, a hobby, instead of this catering potential customers, and I also have issues with this trend that everything they *do* deserves a monetary compensation.


*Because yes, I know there's always some exceptions.

(Also, time management is a wonderful skills most adults have to learn. It helps to keep a job, a social life and even a hobby.
Only people who don't want to do anything but their hobby think they have to give up fandom unless they get paid for participate on it)

[(Anonymous)]

I think you might be overestimating how much money people are making off of fandom activities. Some people might make decent cash from it but a lot don't and are really just trying to not be completely poverty stricken/in debt poor.

Plus I'm also a professional artist so I DO have to promote myself, it's how I survive. I draw fanart for the love of it (because I really have no other reason to be doing it when I have a lot of original projects I'm working on) but that doesn't mean I should stop trying to promote myself either.

Plus I'm sorry but advertising for yourself WORKS. I hate advertising for myself, but it's a necessity for me to survive. I have gotten legitimate jobs based off people seeing my fanart, did I draw it to get a job? No, but that is part of the reason I try to update my blogs even when I'm busy.

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(AYRT)

We may be in different fandom corners, since I know many people whose fandom activity is fully sponsored, to the point it is their side job.

Anyway, advertising is not what I'm talking about? Specially if it's for the sake of getting jobs.