Reddit, of all places

Artists, give Reddit a chance. Its been surprisingly effective at directing traffic to my homepage, to my shop, I've had some sales and quite a bit of enthusiasm for my art. Which is almost unheard of on Twitter or IG these days. The social media scene for art is pretty volatile, people don't want to move platforms, it's tough to build from scratch, so on and so forth. Techbros pawning NFTs and A.I art, demanding to steal our stuff and shit on us while doing so…it's caused many artists to give up posting online for the time being. The numbers are low for a lot of people, the mass majority of people just scroll aimlessly, less interaction than ever before in this fast paced world of tiktok videos.

I'm an illustrator, not a performer. And so I present decent numbers at Reddit, and the hope of potential good coming to Bats In the belfry art this year.

My “Empire of Dirt” performed well for me on Reddit. Invertebrate owners can relate.

Incredible numbers, I mean I would have rathered have 1k likes or more. But the truth is the big numbers don't pay the bills. It’s a fine tap dance of effort from the artist on all fronts to secure the bag on a regular basis.

I have had enough experience in the social media selling game to know that somewhere in that 6k views, is a few sales. I’ll keep posting on Reddit, keeping my name prominent and at one point the dominoes fall and my bills get paid.

And about my username, I made that random reddit at the beginning of covid, didn't change the name. From what I understand, I'm stuck with that name unless I make a new Reddit account. Which I won't. So Plastic_ebb, it is.