#popular market

[gideonsgirldick]

I just realized that The Locked Tomb series would be waaaay more popular than it is right now if one or both of the leads were male cause people go nuts for hogwarts esc houses, enemy's to lovers romance, and lore as deep as my fingers in your mom.

Someone please talk to me about this I am genuinely out raged.

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #like its litrually a recipe for success #houses with specific personality traits that are easy to attach and easily marketable #enemys to lovers #the lore oh GOD THE LORE #girlies should be going nuts for it but for some reason everyone hates women and thats the true tragedy here #and lesbians. they also hate lesbians #maybe its for the best. they could barely handle Catra so i dont think theyd handle Harrow very well #both a blessing and a curse. not popular enough to be able to buy merch at a convention but at least we arent getting garbage hot takes like #the she ra fandom did

[hootiee]

After re-watching the new Blue Exorcist anime episode (ep.4) I can't stop thinking about how this arc should have been adapted soo many years sooner. it came out 10 years ago. And THIS is the true quality writing this series is known for and what truly pushes fans into really getting into it. Yes, this series is a slow burn/in-for-the-long-haul and the waiting always pays off tremendously, but I still believe it should not have taken THIS long for it to be adapted into an anime.

And it just sucks. It sucks even more that even the biggest anime-only fan's sole interaction with this series was nothing more than the mere introductory premise and never got to the true plot of this series for over than a decade since the first season. I can't help but pity them, at least in the manga it took around 5(?) years for this arc to start, it should not have taken any longer than that after the kyoto saga adaptation imo.

This series has soo much to say with so many stories left unexplored in the anime and yet the wider anime community still calls it "mid" based off the shitty non-canon season 1 ending that unfortunately left everyone with false impressions of this series. It says A LOT how the majority of people who have read the manga agrees it's phenomenal, miles better than the anime.

And it just frustrates me because Blue Exorcist could have still kept up the huge audience and the reputation & recognition it deserves for it's level of quality writing, especially for shonen. Instead of bearing the fate of its audience whittling away over the years due to the anime's mistreatment and the only fans remaining are the loyal manga fans. This series deserved better treatment years ago, but late is better than never.

#blue exorcist #ao no exorcist #aoex #blue exorcist season 3 #ao no exorcist season 3 #always fighting between 'this series deserves so much recognition' vs 'i must gatekeep this from shitty anime fans at all costs' #but this series at the bare minimum deserves THIS arc to be adapted. #it also just sucks that the only way for a series to get popular is thru anime adaptions but whatever that wont go away anytime soon #the marketing for this series in the west by viz is definitely partially to blame for its audience declining over the years. #anyways watch the new season. and better yet read the manga too! ITS STILL ONGOING NEW CHAPTER DROPS FEB 1ST #READ IT ON VIZ SHONEN JUMP OR MANGAPLUS BOTH ON DESKTOP AND APP. LEGALLY. AND MANGAPLUS APP HAS THE FULL CHAPS FOR FREE #me when i have the aoex autism instead of the good at math autism and writes an essay abt it at 10pm at night when i could be doing smth el #also hi new fans or returning fans. im chase u probably have seen me or my posts/art around #im arguably the most autistic aoex fan ever 😁😁 can u tell

[sweet-potato-42]

From a meta perspective bolas team did a perfect job in becoming the most popular team and marketing (whether intentionally or not). like its quite impressive to see:

they set themselves up as underdogs day 1

they had a fun insane behavior thing that people were attached to

they had awesome imagery with the gas masks and being red

they had a group of ccs who were very close to each other beforehand and had great dynamics and were great at rp

They streamed all together at the same time

I have to say they did a great job at making themselves seem like the better team and painted blue as the enemy (like its fair of them to have done but anyone can say some of their comments were kinda biased)

the BOLAS chants are peak way to rally people together

Had the advantage of bigger ccs with intesne fanbases

the rivalry with bbh was also fun to see

they were sometimes the targets and victims and losing (highlight sometimes, they were not weak, they won a lot) and did a great job and focusing on that and using it as fuel

In the end they were great at what they did, too good at it, which caused the fanbase to be super biased towards them and some elements of it was what caused so much drama.

New ccs: please be worse at marketing for our sanity

#qsmp #qsmp purgatory #qsmp bolas #I kept thinking why is that team so popular #its more than just having big ccs #It made sense #Its classic marketing and seeing how govenrments get people to follow them #A similar thing happened with soulfire #I could write a whole thing as well explaining why soulfire fans became so intense to the point of now disliking all bolas mentions #I am a big soulfire fan btw #This is all based on what i observe from ads and from historical cases of governments and organisations that had dedicated followings #bolas was called a cult for a reason

[dualitysdownfall]

in the episode where travis introduces ab-nimals justin creates the sentence "his brain does not function like many other popular brains you might be aware of" and it might be my new favorite way to describe myself

#mbmbam #mcelroys #harper babbles #My brain does not function like many other popular brains you might be aware of #Whats the most popular brain out there #The top two competitors on the brain market #harper highlights

[moonsidesong]

If you don't mind me asking what's the uhh. origin of agent fwee

if i recall correctly i think she technically started as an inside joke of my sister and i saying "agent 3" in like, a silly babyish voice?? but in 2018 (about a month or so before i made 14 crush) i made these little joke doodles of agent 3 during class.

she wasn't at all tied to 14 crush until someone had a silly idea that just. happened to line up almost exactly with fwee as a concept, so i brought her up and showed my followers the art above.

people liked her a lot so i ended up keeping her as part of this semi-canon state where i think she exists in the 14 crush universe but she'd never have a real tangible role in the blog (maybe she wouldve had a cameo at some point if it kept going, who knows)

she got a lot of fanart with different designs attached (since the original drawing of her was just agent 3's octo expansion look with a silly face and red ink) so i decided i should give her her own (rather simple and easy to draw) design in 2019 (lifting the color scheme directly from Strange Klug from puyo puyo lol)

and thats where she's at now! just a silly gal who is either just a weird teenager or an immortal all powerful being or anything in between. up to you.

(her birthday art from 2019, 2020, and 2021 respectively. looks like i missed last year... sorry fwee)

#14 crush #bri talks #sometimes i depicted her with mark the marketer octoling as having a father/daughter or maybe older brother/younger sister type of dynamic #but he was a whole other much later thing lol #she was always the more popular of the two anyway #long post

[kastlequill]

im so fucking tired of gaz erasure from both activision and the fandom.

what justification is there to keep gaz off these shirts when there’s so much empty space that could easily fit him?:

also the only one to not have this style of shirt:

this is the only solo merch he has and it’s a silhouette. this same design + that of the other three in 141 together on a shirt/hoodie/mug is the only group merch he is part of:

like it’s fucking ridiculous at this point. gaz is one of the main characters who we spend a lot of time playing as. what could possibly be the reason for this? popularity difference isn’t an excuse either, because how can you gauge selling power when you don’t even offer stuff for him in the first place???

fuck off

#kyle gaz garrick #cod gaz #task force 141 #elliot knight #call of duty #cod #discourse #like i understand ghost having significantly more merch than any of the other three #he’s the face of the marketing and most popular undeniably i get it #but gaz getting paid fucking dust? #its simply catering to racist cod fans at its finest

[hentired]

A lot of people are missing the point for that marketing post i think about Barbie / Oppenheimer / Grimace Shake challenges etc.

Its not about not posting about seeing a movie. You can see a movie and tell your friends about it, post about liking it or whatever. That's fine. The problem is that it's becoming a trend to go see these movies or participate in these challenges. People aren't doing it out of intrinsic motivation, but because they want to be part of the trend. This is what makes every corporate marketeer cum their pants.

Marketing is not to cater to people who would watch these movies nonetheless. Its to convince the people who normally wouldn't to do so anyway. Its about making people who don't participate feel left out so they'll go see it anyway and post their pink Barbie-watching outfits on Instagram so everyone else knows they're in on it. Its social manipulation to convince people to be part of something. Its very healthy to be conscious about it when you post about these trends and its also good to remind yourself that you shouldn't do anyone's marketing for them for free.

Again, there's nothing wrong with seeing a movie and posting about it. There is something wrong with making people feel left out for not seeing something and pressuring people to see something to belong in the in group.

#The exact same thing happened during peak popularity of game of thrones #where people who normally wouldnt give a shit about this genre watched it anyway just to be part of the fad #with is one of the most manipulative ways to market a product #the idea here is that when someone hasnt seen Oppenheimer or some shit you go “ok thats fine!” instead of “WHAT you havent SEEN IT YET???” #which is the part that manipulates them instead of motivating them

[silkyloathe]

do any aces still do the black ring thing? i kind of want to sell these resin rings, plain black or sparkly "space ace" as pictured... i have 2 made currently for $10 each and i can add other stuff for 5 more

#why am i marketing to the ace community? because i think the black ring thing was cool and i made black rings #i know a lot of this stuff got less popular when people were weird about all that a couple years ago but idk. anyone? #ace positivity #asexual #acespec #space ace

[somecunttookmyurl]

i have had a terrible awful no good very bad day

they moved a bubble waffle place into the (built in) unit right behind me. and when i say right behind i mean like.... 4ft.

i've had people shoving into me all day, leaning up against the back (working side. where i work) of my stall and generally crowding right over my shoulder because there is simply no fucking room back there

which also meant it was nigh impossible for me & babs to watch each other's stalls when going to the bathroom or whatever because people were just. in the way of that line of sight all the time. at the back of the stall. where the cash and personal belongings are. i've never had to pee so much in my LIFE

couldn't even pack up when i wanted to because i couldn't get around the outside of my own fucking stall

and of course, the noise. it's been so loud all day directly behind my earballs that i haven't been able to hear anybody on the other side of my stall. they haven't been able to hear me. the result of which is massively increased foot traffic but an 80% loss in sales.

everyone in our little corner did "worse than a slow quiet day" today but i took the biggest hit on account of being the one directly in front of it. turns out it's really hard to sell things to people when you can't talk to them! or get out to go around and show them things! who knew (sarcasm)

the icing on the cake then being having theft from my stall for the first time ever bc it turns out that crowd cover will help people do that so more than half of what little i scraped in today was wiped out

#would it be a dick move to email the market manager like #if their activity doesn't nosedive off a cliff VERY sharpish then they cannot fucking stay here #like it's just not viable to have an even slightly popular food stand DIRECTLY behind traders it simply is not #megan's cake place is ok because that unit is a walk-in so theres space #and the pizza guy is down in the corner with no stalls in front of him so that is also not disruptive even if it gets busy

[rukafais]

I played Never Grave's demo so I could see if it had any ambition at all beyond smashing a bunch of popular things together to create something kind of interesting and in short:

no lol

The unique mechanic, possession, is so sidelined you might as well be playing as the Cutesy Witch Character that is the mascot despite being a hat that possesses corpses, because it's not actually a hollow knight style metroidvania, it's smashing hollow knight's style and pacing into dead cells' room generation and enemy placement and creates an unhappy compromise that makes me wish it would shit or get off the fucking pot. It also has drops which are supposed to incentivize replay so you can get upgrades and whatnot, but what it mostly does is make me resent how transparently shoehorned the mechanic is.

also why is the build mode so crusty

Oh also this area is like 50% of the demo (since it is the area you actually do all the combat exploration in):

If you have a game that is making me think, at all times "man i wish i was playing another, better game that looks like this/plays like this that I enjoyed more" you've failed to give your game a unique identity and that, more than anything, irritates the shit out of me. The video game industry is built on clones, at least make it a fucking GOOD clone that isn't creatively bankrupt.

Also they have the whole roguelike random upgrade thing going on but they all feel pretty meaningless because there's no real indication or sense of balance. Everything feels like it's there because it has to be there, because it's popular, instead of trying to have some kind of creative identity and stand on its own. It's deeply, agonizingly mediocre. It feels like it was designed by a fucking marketing team because This Is What's Popular, Right?

Which sucks. Because I would play a game about being a fucked up little creature that possesses corpses to get around! But it doesn't even commit to that premise enough to get me interested, DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH OF A SUCKER I AM FOR EVEN THE SLIGHTEST BIT OF AESTHETIC PANDERING?

Also there's no flavor text or lore or plot which like, if there was SOMETHING i could be interested. There is fucking nothing. It feels like someone slapped this together from a bunch of premade templates and expects you to get excited about it.

ALSO IT'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER EARLY ACCESS GAME, FROM A STUDIO THAT SEEMS TO PRODUCE NOTHING BUT EARLY ACCESS GAMES THAT NEVER MAKE IT OUT OF EARLY ACCESS, JESUS CHRIST POCKETPAIR

#this is also my beef with palworld #at best it's an amateurish smashing together of things that the devs think are cool with no attempts to synergize #at WORST it's cynical marketing jargon #i shouldn't be thinking 'this feels like it was synthesized in a lab' #I don't hate Never Grave for being ''a hollow knight ripoff'' #i hate it for being mediocre and creatively bankrupt #either its soulless because it was made out of components that were individually popular #or its too cowardly to have a creative identity

[titsthedamnseason]

i fear some of you need to accept that rep tv is not dropping tonight…..

#ENOUGH IS ENOUGH #AND WHY WOULD YOU EVEN WANT THAT? #rep tv and ttpd are separate projects that i would like to dedicate my time to accordingly #that would be too much and honestly a bad business move from taylor #rep is her most popular / most marketable era. she’s not double dropping it alongside brand new work lol

[anonymousweirdo]

#sorry for like never posting here #also sorry this is off brand lol #been prepping for an art market and made prints of this cause it was popular at my last one #blitzø #blitzo #helluva boss #fanart #helluva blitzo #helluva fanart #helluva boss fanart

[rntsuoka]

big buff hot nerd

#i just know hes the most popular dude at uni #i KNOW #and oiks would call every two hours to check in #and be like 'hmp guess what hajime chan i the great oikawa san got asked out 10 times today! 10! #and iwa would just be like thats great #and then their phone call gets interrupted when someone stops iwa to ask him out #and its like the 12th or 15th or whatever time today already #iwas sort of lost count #and oiks overhears #and even before iwa can gently let the person down #oiks is screaming IWACHAN U BETTER NOT ACCEPT THIS CONFESSION #OR IM NEVER SPEAKING TO YOU AGAIN #and iwa just sighs #giving the person (who accidentally heard the whole thing) a look thats like 'see?' #he cant hes technically already taken #by some annoying guy whos obsessed with milk bread and volleyball and aliens #and whos basically his forever already #and then news spreads like wildfire that iwas off the market which gives everyone depression #very canon #absolutely 100% canon #iwaizumi hajime #haikyuu!! #art

[heph]

Hey, I remember you mentioning on your IG something about two types of popular artists and one being good at social media and the other being good at art or something like that (I can't really remember lol). But it got me thinking, any tips for how to be good at social media? Cuz I'm certainly not even after posting art for six years lol

Heya!

What I meant by that is that there are traits that allow you to grow on social media, and traits that determine what a highly skilled artist is, and those traits do not always necessarily overlap.

I've seen so many amazing artists that post artwork that blow my head off, and yet they don't have many likes. On the other hand, some artists at the same skill level who draw more popular things will get way more attention.

That is not to say that either is the correct way to create art, but there is definitely a formula to social media that is in play.

There are a lot of posts about how to grow a social media account, particularly on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram art spheres, and imo you really need to examine what you want from your art before jumping into social media mode

The stuff you create to pander to social media might not be art that you want to create at all - I'm lucky, because I am less artist more storyteller, and what I enjoy is telling jokes and silly stories to liven up people's moods :] this, of course, conveniently does well on social media. On a personal note, I have a history of being a recluse and not connecting well with people, and art is my way of trying to communicate my feelings, one way or another.

So of course, if you draw for any reason other than my own, my approach to art and it's relation to social media might be inappropriate for you.

All that being said, if u take a look at those "get big on social media" videos they always cite the same few points... And you can look into that, for sure, but this video sums up how I feel about all that.

I spent like 20 minutes drafting words after the above paragraph, but I really ended up regurgitating sentiments from the video... So really don't listen to me, listen to that video

EDIT:

I just realised I didnt actually answer the question with my anecdotal experience, so here's a list of things I did

1. Posted like 3 doodles a day on social media

I did this for 6 months on a side account on Twitter recently and got the account to 11k followers... And I did this for 3 months on Instagram a few years ago and I think got 3.5k followers. Of course, do not spam maliciously and make sure your art is still of good quality, but for those artworks I posted quickly, I did not colour, and mostly did clean sketches. This also trains you in the matter of line confidence haha. Again, this worked for me because of my set of circumstances (love for the media, want to tell stories, simple art style)

2. Focus on my favourite aspects of media

This helps with respect to burnout - kinda hard to burnout when you love what you're making! For me, it's character interactions and comics. I want to see my blorbos kiss and if I'm not the one drawing it who will?!

3. Interact with people

People eat up work that they can interact with. A choose your own story situation, one of those like/rt to strip a character 😭 those do numbers for a reason.

Additionally, if you post stuff people love, people will respond to it with comments, maybe their own headcanons, adding on to the work... I've gone into long looong Twitter thread conversations with people who added onto my ideas that I threw up onto the screen and I think it's also a nice thing to do to respond to positive comments haha... I'm not very good at this (read: bad at communication)

I think that's the key points... Hope this helps!

#people who are good at social media are good at marketing basically #theyre their own hype man who has something cool to show #and would like to show everyone that cool thing! #its not purely about art its also about charisma and trying to get people to be convinced that youre cool as well #thats why there are social media influencers #people who vlog and get popular because of the way they present themselves #me i am very much my own hype man #not really because im particularly good at art (im not) but because i have so many thoughts in my head that i want to share #and i need people to also be poisoned by these thoughts so i enthusiastically promote it #side eyes the blood soup comic i dedicated like 20 pages to #on my end it comes from the love of media and my desire to build upon the established canon #but i understand that not everyone is so intensely passionate about their own work... but yknow #you need to love your own art in order for it to succeed #just like you need to love yourself before you can grow as a person #its easy for me to say because i do have social media attention though #i remember so desperately chasing social media validation when i was 16 #so really i cant really say much regarding that haha #but do watch the video and hopefully it helps! #i wrote so many words... #heph answered

[torchiiko]

does anyone wanna hear a little spam hc i have. ok here goes:

part of the reason spamton crashed & burned so hard is bc addisons, by their nature/code/whatever, arent Meant to be famous or anything. theyre not rlly supposed to stand out as individuals or be celebrities, theyre just there to do a job. spams whole dream of being a big shot was unusual in itself bc most addisons are in fact content just doing their jobs

in that sense, him ever being successful to the extent that he was defied his code, his fate even. and perhaps thats why hes corrupted? that wasnt part of my original hc before but i think it could work... weird things happen when you make programs do things they werent meant to

#addisons are. Ads after all & ads themselves dont tend to be popular.. they either do well or they dont #an addison could market for their own business or someone elses but either way it wouldnt be Them as a person that got popular #their business might get a bit popular but its not like theyd be a celebrity or anything. helping a product succeed is literally their job #just a lil idea i had is all #torch chatter #spamton

[project-sekai-facts]

The release of Haruka's fifth banner, the One-Day Trip Before Setting Sail event and its accompanying Bon Voyage・Sailing and Bonding gacha marks her first permanent banner in 720 days (10 days short of two years). Her previous permanent banner was the Break Time for the Hardworking You! event and accompanying Welcome to the Penguin Cafe ♪ gacha, which was also her first banner.

Haruka's second, third, and fourth banners all had a limited gacha. She currently holds the record for most limited banners (with three), as well as most consecutive limited banners.

#project sekai #haruka kiritani #fun fact haruka is statistically one of the least popular characters so i do not know why colopale thinks she is a strong source of income #these banners mostly contain other low-popularity characters as well so really what is going on in the marketing department