patrecon (-)
I made it through the first speaker singing the praises of how wonderful Facebook is. I made it through him encouraging people to Always Be Promoting on their smartphones, even while having a conversation with your partner-- that was a real example. But when he started talking about "giving your customers that dopamine" burst, I got huffy and looked for a nice quiet place I could play Slay The Spire. >_<
Also, everybody here is super-young and it's super-depressing.
re: patrecon (+)
We even got one "Furry porn?! Well, count ME in! :D " drawn in as as somebody's addendum to Peg's story. That warmed my heart a whole bunch and we might have to try to track this miscreant down. <3 <3
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@zebratron2084 I'm so glad! sometimes it just takes one person willing to speak up (or post up), and a bunch of other people who all thought they were alone look at that and say "hey, it's not just me!" it's very likely that you've made a substantially positive difference in somebody's mental health by kicking that off. <3
patrecon (-)
That just means you can confuse them with very old cons.
re: patrecon (-)
@001zlnv This is LA corporate "creative" culture. I get the impression that conning these people would be a bit like being the new guy trying to deal meth in Albuquerque. >_>;;
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Nahhh I'm suggesting less method in Albuquerque and more absinthe, either, and opium in Albuquerque.
Probably still a teeeeerible idea, but one so out of date that no one is even thinking about it :p
patrecon (-)
@zebratron2084 wow. That would do me in. And appropriate to the rest of the discussion, I tend to think of Patreon users as younger and artists, so it’s kinda gross to think of someone pulling that always promote stuff on kids who would rather be drawing than flogging their stuff. Ew ew ew.
patrecon (+)
On the other hand, their big kindergarteny "tell us YOUR story of creativilization!" wall turned out pretty good.
Peg and I both wrote extremely snarky, thematically honest things about our experiences there yesterday (mine involved spores and host devouring), and I walked away feeling so gloriously adolescent and subversive.
Today the wall was full of crazy stuff like ours, silly fantasy scenarios and frank admissions of being scared little artists who got here by accident. <3