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When external metrics become indistinguishable from creative purpose

My therapist asked me why I make art and I realized I could not answer without mentioning likes and shares and followers and I felt sick

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The social media reward system has so thoroughly infiltrated the artist's motivation that they can no longer access their original reasons for creating

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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