You touch on a lot of great points. I think this is comic cultures paradigm shift going foward and those that wish to create will find the audience that's just tired of the back and forth and desire to get back to the roots of the medium to begin with. Kind of like our own great reset.
Fwiw, I do believe it's possible to engage on social media as a creator AND as a basic human - you can have conversations and share thoughts on pop culture and inspirations, etc. w/o engaging in politics or controversy.
One thought I've been pushing recently, whenever someone starts demonizing social media and shouts "the algorithm!" I suggest back "You mean your own behavior?" Because that's what the algorithm IS. It's a purely responsive piece of code that serves you more of what you've engaged with. It doesn't take more than 1-2 weeks of different behavior to virtually annihilate what you were seeing before.
I rarely see any social media fights/tiffs. I rarely see the controversies. I hear about them later, usually on Discord groups or spoken of after the fact. But that's not what I use social media for, so the "algorithm" never serves it to me. I think we can be there for others, have non-controversial conversations as fun actually social side tangents, while still mostly being there for the work.
I keep hearing how negative and toxic social media is, but...I never see it. I know it exists, but the people who complain about it, I have to wonder what they're doing differently than me to be exposed to it 24/7. My own POV is proof that it CAN be done. You CAN use social media as you like, be present often enough, without getting sucked into the whirlpool of flame wars.
Anywho, love this conversation between the two of you, please keep it going! You're giving me ideas for guest writers on my own stack.
And to Add. Who in the Comicsgates camp actually bought Isom from Eric July just for the comic? Probably a meager 5% and that's being conservative... Heh heh haha
This is great to see Rent, I just read JL’s response as well good to see you too bringing it together
Am I supposed to comment on these?
Many directions to go from here. Looking forward to this series, my friend. My response is scheduled for this upcoming Monday.
You touch on a lot of great points. I think this is comic cultures paradigm shift going foward and those that wish to create will find the audience that's just tired of the back and forth and desire to get back to the roots of the medium to begin with. Kind of like our own great reset.
Love this approach Rent! I look forward to reading more 😁👍
Fwiw, I do believe it's possible to engage on social media as a creator AND as a basic human - you can have conversations and share thoughts on pop culture and inspirations, etc. w/o engaging in politics or controversy.
One thought I've been pushing recently, whenever someone starts demonizing social media and shouts "the algorithm!" I suggest back "You mean your own behavior?" Because that's what the algorithm IS. It's a purely responsive piece of code that serves you more of what you've engaged with. It doesn't take more than 1-2 weeks of different behavior to virtually annihilate what you were seeing before.
I rarely see any social media fights/tiffs. I rarely see the controversies. I hear about them later, usually on Discord groups or spoken of after the fact. But that's not what I use social media for, so the "algorithm" never serves it to me. I think we can be there for others, have non-controversial conversations as fun actually social side tangents, while still mostly being there for the work.
I keep hearing how negative and toxic social media is, but...I never see it. I know it exists, but the people who complain about it, I have to wonder what they're doing differently than me to be exposed to it 24/7. My own POV is proof that it CAN be done. You CAN use social media as you like, be present often enough, without getting sucked into the whirlpool of flame wars.
Anywho, love this conversation between the two of you, please keep it going! You're giving me ideas for guest writers on my own stack.
And to Add. Who in the Comicsgates camp actually bought Isom from Eric July just for the comic? Probably a meager 5% and that's being conservative... Heh heh haha