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[kradeelav]

 one of these days i want to write one of those annoying think pieces called "the 'it's not fuckin worth it' calculation: and why it's ruining the internet"

(something something calculation of [time it takes to make a creation] x [perceived edginess of the thing in proportion to certian circles] x [chance it has to go violently viral in a bad way] x [amount of actual care of the author has towards their audiences] = is it or is it not Fucking Worth it to make the thing)

don't get me wrong i am entirely guilty of not making a thing or two based off the calculation. it's just. annoying. how often even "I" still run through that pretty much every day after deliberately trying to shed externalities that might bite me in the butt.

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[cmdonovann]

it's interesting to me that the assumed end state of making these calculations is "just don't make the thing" when the obvious answer (to me, anyway) is "make the thing but only show it to your three closest friends and never post it publicly online". i guess it's probably different for people who NEED a large audience response to their work for either emotional or financial reasons, but personally i'm more than happy to write and draw stuff that the internet at large would hate and just send it to one person to go heeheehoohoo about together XP

[kradeelav]

also very true! good lord close fandom friends are so very important for that exact kind of comradeship-over-stories that you mentioned.

that said i know i dearly miss those kinds of creations across the internet as a lurker, stumbling on somebody's gallery that they clearly made for themselves and that's it.

[cmdonovann]

true, true, it's definitely a loss when people's "it's not worth it" calculations keep them from sharing their delightful weirdness, even if they're just creating for themself or for an audience of one or two friends. i guess i hadn't considered that people might be lurkers on my work in that way, but now that you mention it, i wouldn't know if they were!