there's a particular earnestness to how you - i say 'present' because it is partially that, and yet - but it's the kind of earnestness/curiousness/benign observation that's unflappably sincere, with just a twinkle of a trickster's edge that feels quite honest regardless which medium/site you interface with. (since you asked about how you came across, haha, just my humble thoughts on likewise observing you back for what, a decade and a half. :P
this was a fun post to discover in the likes, and you got lots of sympathetic nodding about finding the dude's unhinged papertrail. not that it's endemic to *just* the west coast but there's a particular strain of founder that sure has a bunch of emotional skeletons in the closet. like you, i do hope he finds peace at some point.
this kinda ironically dovetails with an observation that recently a lot of "big name" indie artists/webcomickers in the last five-seven years have gotten a reputation of being intimidating/hard to know/closed off... know a few personally and it's sadly a lot of being burnt by bad-faith interactions and semi-public fallouts. something feels like it's shifted in that there's a greater meta-awareness of how that presentation can be used (TT influencers).
going off on even more of a tangent, it feels like there's a greater distinction (tension between?) of creative work meant to fufill eyeballs versus private meaning. the work being shown in private discord groups being *vastly* different than posted-on-twitter work, and it's an interesting dissection of who they want to be seen as vs who they want the work to be seen as. or both? neither?
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Date: 2024-10-11 07:29 pm (UTC)this was a fun post to discover in the likes, and you got lots of sympathetic nodding about finding the dude's unhinged papertrail. not that it's endemic to *just* the west coast but there's a particular strain of founder that sure has a bunch of emotional skeletons in the closet. like you, i do hope he finds peace at some point.
this kinda ironically dovetails with an observation that recently a lot of "big name" indie artists/webcomickers in the last five-seven years have gotten a reputation of being intimidating/hard to know/closed off... know a few personally and it's sadly a lot of being burnt by bad-faith interactions and semi-public fallouts. something feels like it's shifted in that there's a greater meta-awareness of how that presentation can be used (TT influencers).
going off on even more of a tangent, it feels like there's a greater distinction (tension between?) of creative work meant to fufill eyeballs versus private meaning. the work being shown in private discord groups being *vastly* different than posted-on-twitter work, and it's an interesting dissection of who they want to be seen as vs who they want the work to be seen as. or both? neither?
fun existential questions ~