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I could never maintain a personal brand. Whether in the form of an "art style" (as understood by social media) or subject matter or anything else. It's why I've never been an successful (measured by interaction counts, commissioners) social media artist.
I'm always all of me. Shifting, squirming, changing me.
That's not fit for online success.
When I was on twitter, the biggest surge of interactions, commissions and general popularity was when I tried to compartmentalize myself as "anthro bird artist"
Once I started being more numbers went down
You can't gain success online without being One Thing. Unless you get exceptionally lucky
If you're happy posting the same things over and over and over again, all in the one way you've decided represents you, great, all the more power to you.
I could never understand it though.
@drakonic yeah for a while I figured that I could be my own brand but at this point it's kind of silly because I am a chronic poster and when people follow me they sign up to see every single bit of myself, including the parts that Definitely aren't marketable.
might have lost a few people in the process that I'm still sore about but I'm trying to get past my abandonment issues and just let myself be myself on main without bottling anything up
@Takiro@meow.social@drakonic
For a long time I was obsessed with drawing pokemon, then general furry stuff, now it's ponies and who knows what it is in five years, perhaps dragons and ferrets? My brand is whatever tickles my serotonin glands.
@drakonic@wetdry.world leaks from twitter's content algorithm show that it does actually punish accounts it thinks are posting outside their ballpark.