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Iron Spike

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Kids just getting started trying to be independent artists will never experience or understand what a real "grass roots" support network on Twitter or whatever can be like. I've mentioned this before but early Kickstarters I ran? 1/3rd of the funding was from Twitter.

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Iron Spike's avatar Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social
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When Twitter was useful and humming along, I used to say (re: being an independent creative online) "It's never gonna be easy, but it's never been easier." And it fucking kills me to consider that THAT may have been the high water mark. That we've SEEN as good as it gets for us.

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Charlie Stickney's avatar Charlie Stickney @charliestickney.bsky.social
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100%. It's SO much harder now to build an audience on KS than it was 5 years ago. Social media is a huge part of that.

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Mick Beyers's avatar Mick Beyers @mccomicker.bsky.social
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I've never had a custom Twitter tag come in with more than five results. Some of us are always wandering in the desert.

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