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@Wildfire: Hopefully I will be of assistance. :vanora_sweat:
But will do what I can to help.
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@Ava: Nah my family doesn't celebrate holidays as it's against my dad's religion.

I usually watch a show i like while I draw.
i have too many things to finish with art.

Sometimes i play sims 4 but i haven't for a long time.
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@Ava: That's always good!

I'm rather stressed today. as today has not been that good for me. :vanora_sweat:
stuff at home is rather stressful.

But i may do something to help take my mind off of it.
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@Ava: Hello there Ava!
How are you doing today?
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@Juliette: hopefully but it doesn't seem like it.
situation at home just only seems to get worse. x. x

Yeah me too. I may work on some art soon.
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@Juliette: I'm a bit stressed atm but doing okay.
how about you?
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Hello everyone.
this seems like a quaint hangout.
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@Wildfire: IG is honestly super hard to learn how to use it.
Especially with advertising as I have not yet barely mastered that. As I often advertise my stuff
but i still get no bites. :vanora_cry:

And it doesn't help that IG does not let smaller businesses with less than 10k followers to use an option called swipe up.
where if you swipe up on your phone, it takes you to the website someone is offering for example
if someone is having a sale on prints.
if they swipe up it will take them to their website where the sale is happening.
but for smaller businesses with a lot less followers, it's very hard to advertise things.

I honestly don't know how to advertise without that swipe up option.
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@Wildfire: I honestly didn't know a lot of it until a few months ago.
Originally for IG i just posted my art, had my account private until i was brave enough to open it.
which was January 2020.
So i'm still learning a lot of things as I go. :vanora_sweat:

twitter tho is a whole new ballpark from IG. it's so difficult as there is no way on how to get a following
like IG has. so it's...very confusing lol.

But from what i learned tho it is always good to have multiple places where you are at
and have different sources of income.
like for example, having patreon, commissions, having inprint, and society6 and redbubble
as if you don't get paid through one or 2 ways you have backups.
or in my case...none of them.. lol.

Art is just all I can do which is why i be trying so hard.
But it also distracts me from overthinking too much. and i do enjoy it.
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@Wildfire: im not sure i'd be good at giving advice. i still fail at getting my art out there and marketing myself
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@Wildfire: life as an artist. always adapting to small annoying changes :vanora_sweat:

and i think its an IG issue for posting today as i cant even add a story post.
but the good news today is i got approved to a print shop site called inprnt.
so im adding my fave pieces on there.

i've been trying to get approved since june or July.
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@Wildfire: if you don't post at for example 1pm at the dot.
if you're even a minute late, the algorithm will hide your post and it won't get much attraction so barely anyone will see
your post for very long.
so i have to post it right at that very hour.

Yesterday i was only 1 minute off and the algorithm did not do well with my shop update post. :vanora_sweat:

So now i have no idea if posting it at 2pm will be a good idea
as if i post at wrong time, it won't do good lol.
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@Wildfire: it would but it's very unlikely to happen anytime soon.
So i will have to post my post an hour later than planned.
otherwise...the algorithm will work against me.
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@Wildfire: couldn't tell you.
just buffers forever loading my post after i click next arrow.
restarting it so maybe it'll work.

i so wish i could get a new phone. this one just has a million issues.