This article is inspired by Charli Burrowes\u2019s Instagram post which is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Platforms are coming for every free second you have. We used to colonise countries, now it\u2019s human attention.\u2019 \u2014 Bo Burnham<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I know artists.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I know illustrators and cartoonists and animators and photographers, who are quietly holed up, projects paused, pencils down, learning how to turn a week\u2019s worth of work into twenty seconds of content because they\u2019re scared of not being seen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I know musicians.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Who make beautiful music that heals and helps and allows us to feel it all; now tasked with turning everything we\u2019ve ever loved into ten second of trending audio.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I know writers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I know film makers and storytellers; bold, ass kicking, risk taking sons of bitches that bring entire worlds to life, stuck trying to turn their tall tales into tiny ones.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I know performers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I know acrobats and actors, burlesque dancers and cabaret queens struggling to sell tickets, as audiences turn up their screen time, instead of turning up to shows.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Art isn’t content. But if we keep treating it as disposable, we\u2019ll lose it.<\/em> If platforms continue to encourage artists to create for an algorithm, and an audience to cheer for trends instead of a connection, artists won\u2019t want to create on here.<\/em> I don\u2019t want to create on here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Social Media is making us forget Art. Social Media is destroying Art and Artists. I\u2019ll use myself as an example. Whenever I come up with an article idea to write here, my brain immediately starts thinking of how I repurpose this one article for social media in a million different ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am writing that 80% to keep the algorithm gods pleased and bring in readers to read my Art \u2014 when it\u2019s ready to see the light. Art needs patience, effort and its own pace. These are something Content doesn\u2019t want to hear about. Content takes me an hour per article to create. Art has its own maturity time; I can\u2019t rush it or half-ass it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whenever I learn a lesson, I start thinking of turning it into Content. Or when I see something beautiful, instead of appreciating it, I have to take a picture \u201cfor Instagram.\u201d<\/em> And while doing that, I could hear my Art screaming inside of me to come out. But my reply was \u2014 \u201cNo, I need to create this content first to bring in the audience to whom I can sell my art.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I now understand I am looking at it all wrong. Content has its own place. And Art has its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Content can never, should never, come at the cost of Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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