Friday, November 3, 2023

Fanart worship, Differentiation

"It's okay Naive kid, it's the status roles the long tail of status roles inflicts on all, merely focus on your own journey now." Says Marketing Sam.

What differentiates a guy between one that gets arts freely and another that has to hire freelancers? Between a valid call to action for it and another. A naive question to ask, yet one I'll try to answer.

It's the permission and brand asset, technically speaking in a direct sense. Expertise is more irrelevant since they are incompetent illustrators out there, yet they make a connection to their audience.

  • Permission being that the artist has brought forward sociable, personal and related messages, where they'd yearn.

    Permission helps if they get in early, It's never too late to start now. To act now, on any social media site. With psychology, sunk costs and stories reinforcing this!

  • Brand, somewhat as in the one and only, that separates one from the mediocre baseline product demand. The mark of the artist's character that is measured.

    Brand helps to study the baseline and genre expectations, then playing at the edges. So they give the early adopters a reason to pick, not the laggards.

All this is unmeasurable, dependent on soft skills of the freelance or entrepreneur. It requires connection and practical empathy.

Pretty much how a business sees it. Goodbye Naive kid, you're dealing with an indifferent market with no autonomy, that self-regulates. Even with perfect calculation, the market itself with its disruption will be a crap shoot.