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❓Cryptoart Question of the Week ❓ Social media plays a huge role in how art is shared and valued today, but it doesn't always help the artists in the right way. What role should social media play in supporting artists? And how does it help artists? Please tag your replies with #CAQOTW.

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I think the whole “metaverse” meme is silly but social media is essentially an artist’s online presence. Your website does not automatically generate views - you exist online only so far as you act and post, not by default the way you do by having a body and taking up space. Social media, IMO is obnoxious because it makes you a slave to content algorithms - but pragmatically we haven’t figured out a better way to sort streams of posts. I think it has become kind of an analog for personal networking though - it goes better for outgoing and witty people who have something to offer consistently. It’s not fair, but it is what it is, right?

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i'll have to really think about this some more. very thought-provoking. but my initial reaction was to agree with you. but then i began to think of IRL existence. and for others we only exist in so far as we interact with them. the same is true of social. if you live in a cabin, live off the land, and only talk to animals for 50 years. that's the social media equivalent (conceptually of course) to not being on socials. this isn't fully formed. but very interesting. another thought I had was that once you put content out there via socials, it's available asynchronously. which means some people might not interact with it when created but can come to it days, weeks, or even years later. and you'll have done nothing to get them there. i do like the internet mostly because of it's asynchronous nature. it fits my personality as a natural introvert.

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Yeah that’s a good point - but it’s the same thing isn’t it in some ways - no one discovers the artist in their attic, but we don’t blame anything for it.

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the biggest difference is the scale and speed of the internet. that said, you're right in that it takes action from the artist in order to be put in a position to be discovered. i think the illusion of access to opportunity because of the ease of connection is why social media is easy to blame. expectations vs reality don't line up.

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If a tree falls in a forest, but nobody hears it, did it fall? does it matter? if great art is craeted but nobody else gets to cherish and appreciate it, is it art? would the mona lisa be the "mona lisa" if it wasnt' at the louvre reciving millions of visitors a year?

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the last one is interesting because the mona lisa wasn't even the mona lisa until picasso and friends stole it and it became an international incident. before then it was among the least know Da Vinci's.

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I was also thinking about the other DaVinci that recently got appraised and displayed on dubai. The christ with the sphere one... Didnt exist 20y ago. now it makes a louvre in dubai make sense (and the louvre rake in millions)

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yeah; a good story does wonders. it helps the lore that MBS owns it and apparently kept it hidden on a yact or something like that. there are so few Da Vinci's paintings though. i think less than 20 or something like that. there is even speculation that it's not his but might be an apprentice's word. but what makes more money for everyone involved? :)

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