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i went to buy art today, until i saw this (1st image). it's simply, sad. an artist asked me the other day, how the community has changed when i first started in 2020. answer in 3rd pic
no, i don't care if i lose some followers for this. those who know me, know my heart lies with artists here. let me explain...
1⃣ i've always told artists, get paid, not played. self-serving marketers, like @realkatoog, uses people as promotional tools for himself. there's a difference between temporary event tags & an ongoing self-serving pity party (#blamekato) for judgements against him, brought on by his own actions
2⃣ your art is; the visual/audio, title, & description. when you compromise any of those, you turn your art into an act of desperation with inherited, ugly, stigmas. it's as ineffective as a promotional flyer on your car windshield, but placed there by you (2nd image). you can't blame the community for 'not being about art' when you feed into that. there's several legit collectors & circles, outside of me/mine, who don't play those games with artists & their creations
3⃣ for non-events, if you constantly include such tags in your art's posts, consistently fruitless tags (name & hashtags) for the overwhelming majority, it causes you to inherit his negative stigma among other collectors & is more fruitless than fruitful in terms of being collected by either. simply do the math for his follower count vs what he can/will buy. the only 100% certainty of doing that is spreading his brand, not your identity as an artist
4⃣ people who are "real" about who/how they are, don't need to tell you they are. people here, who are real og's, don't label themselves as such. he started here 1 year, 2 months ago. the *real og* people/artists here, don't identify in such a way. they never had to because they earned their way to the top or becoming known- not bought their way there. it's just marketing & branding
5⃣ do i support artists who use his tags in posts? yes, but only because i haven't shared all i know from observations & the many artists' dm's to me. this is just me talking on a single topic, not all i know/been shared. every single artist i've opened up with what i know, has stopped using his tags. as i said in a past post, i welcome all non-artist roles here (curators/collectors), until i see red flags. earlier on when i first saw kato long ago, i even dm'd him since we shared/supported a lot of the same artists. i offered a nft from a well known artist at the time for him to giveaway to his followers, as a sign of goodwill. so just know, it's not like i started out not appreciating his collecting efforts in the community, until i saw & heard more as he grew
6⃣ as always, i'm here to share my opinion, but at the end of the day- i want artists to make their own decisions & conclusions. we all have our various moral compasses/factors & i respect that. i speak to so many who are just trying to be artists, they don't always see all that is going on. i understand & accept that, it's why i speak for awareness, not from an agenda
i can overlook his "litter" on the community highway here, but when i see it in artist's homes, their art where they "live" & express themselves, it just saddens me. have more respect for your art than i do 🤍
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