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> making a living > valuable followers Gaining followers and financial success is usually a sideshow to the artist's message. Compromising your message for mo
by CptFribble 8y ago
> making a living
> valuable followers
Gaining followers and financial success is usually a sideshow to the artist's message.
Compromising your message for more money is like the actual definition of selling out.
- falcolas 8y ago> Gaining followers and financial success is usually a sideshow to the artist's message. There's a subreddit devoted to the rather painful ridicule of this (unfortunately common) belief. It's /r/ChoosingBeggers and it has lots of tales of people who try and exploit artists for "the exposure" and accuse them of "selling out" when they demand payment for their work. I know of no professional-grade artists who are happy to give away all their art. Even face painters at fairs charge for their moderately simplistic work.
- CptFribble 8y agoI'm not suggesting artists must give away their art or be sellouts, I'm just saying that not all messages must necessarily be optimized for maximum exposure. Artists shouldn't give away their art for free, but audiences shouldn't expect all art to be easily digestible either.