THE FUNDAMENTAL PARADOX (A PROOF OF THE DEAD INTERNET THEORY)
The artistic community prides itself on being a supportive and welcoming environment. But under the surface the truth is a lot more sinister. I am an artist, I draw using IBIS PAINT X and I frequently post my art onto the internet. And yet wherever I post, unless I already have a decently large (i.e. several hundred people) following, there seems to be a blank void of silence that follows wherever I post, a sudden halt in activity, that somehow instantly resumes upon the next person posting. Everyone's art is lauded and appreciated. Everyone except me and possibly a few other anomalies, that find themselves getting none of the welcome or support or love that all the others are getting.
So I ask you the following question: How can a community claim to be universally welcoming and supportive, when there is this level of social exclusion?
And to those that insist this never happens, in this folder is a log of screenshots that detail occurrences of these phenomena. The log begins 3.24.2025, the same day this page was created. Over two and a half years since I started drawing, and only now have I started documenting the Paradox. UNTIL THE ARTISTIC COMMUNITY BEGINS SUPPORTING AND RESPECTING MY WORK AS MUCH AS IT DOES EVERYONE ELSES' ... THIS LOG WILL BE PRESERVED.
What is logged here? When either the PREDECESSOR or SUCCESSOR (mostly successor, predecessor i don't really pay attention to) gets more interactions than or equal to the SQUARE of the number of interactions on my work. Interactions are measured by the number of people interacting.
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