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When social media validation becomes essential to creative identity

I only feel like a real artist when I get comments from strangers online and I know this is pathetic but I cannot stop needing that external confirmation

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The artist's sense of legitimacy has become dependent on the approval of an invisible and largely indifferent audience

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media and the creative voice?”

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