Greetings from struggling creative types
Hello GFY friends!
This site has always fascinated me - I've been lurking on-and-off for more than fifteen years. Thank you all so much for participating and contributing here. This really is a unique and valuable space. Also, it's really commendable that y'all are still on an old-school forum format; everything else is kind of bullshit imo.
I finally have a reason to post - a plea for advice.
My partner and I are both artists who have an interest in creating pornography. We're on our second attempt at creating unique content - something completely novel. Both times our thought was that the novelty would give us an edge over the competition, but so far the return has been lackluster.
It's a common pattern that artist types often innovate, but fail to capitalize. It feels like we're embodying that cliche every day. With both ventures, the feedback was always amazing, some people just "got it" and were completely mind-blown. This doesn't seem to translate into sales, though.
Are there any members on this board that have experienced the same issue? It doesn't seem like it would be that rare of a problem; between models, photographers, designers, producers and so on, how have you overcome this? How did you break out of what feels like a non-stop development phase? Are there any big-picture revelations that illustrated where you were going wrong?
Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated!
This site has always fascinated me - I've been lurking on-and-off for more than fifteen years. Thank you all so much for participating and contributing here. This really is a unique and valuable space. Also, it's really commendable that y'all are still on an old-school forum format; everything else is kind of bullshit imo.
I finally have a reason to post - a plea for advice.
My partner and I are both artists who have an interest in creating pornography. We're on our second attempt at creating unique content - something completely novel. Both times our thought was that the novelty would give us an edge over the competition, but so far the return has been lackluster.
It's a common pattern that artist types often innovate, but fail to capitalize. It feels like we're embodying that cliche every day. With both ventures, the feedback was always amazing, some people just "got it" and were completely mind-blown. This doesn't seem to translate into sales, though.
Are there any members on this board that have experienced the same issue? It doesn't seem like it would be that rare of a problem; between models, photographers, designers, producers and so on, how have you overcome this? How did you break out of what feels like a non-stop development phase? Are there any big-picture revelations that illustrated where you were going wrong?
Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated!
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