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Two of the pirates from : https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns Go check out their story! ---------------- . Tumblr analytics notes https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/230864187-Google-Analytics https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/223857628-Appearing-in-search-results Reblogs (If er not to someone’s currently dead end blog of things they like that isn’t shared with anyone are like networking: This is one of us, push up.)  If you reblog something, (say you are primarily a reblog tumblr) your tumblr, if the post trends, won’t really get anything from it. But if you are a reblog tumblr that is thematically consistent and you post stuff that a certain audience likes, you may get followers who like that sort of thing. The top page or front page (do people go there? I assume yeah.) is posts that get lots of notes, which you can get from reblogs. First five tags matter the most, then the top 20, so if you use more than that it’s probably a was...

Buy illustrations from me, or XD maybe not, I have hackers so it might not turn out well if I actually get an offer to get paid, damnit. sigh. Still, please come order. ----------------- Basic tagging 101 Sigh. I hate this part. It feels like making a resume for each art piece. This art piece is ‘list of positive attributes that might encourage a click’ You want this art piece. It has all these job requirements. It is digital, it is an illustration, it has humor, or ‘funny’ if that’s the kind of digital artpiece you want working for you. Anyway: Good description article, leaves out a little but for 101 it’s great: https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Boost-Your-Art-A-Guide-for-Tags-832523746 Think about what you would type in if you were trying to find this kind of image. What’s in it. What the subject is. What makes it different from a picture of a tree. Or a human if it’s a tree. What kind of mood. Is it a mystical tree? A magical tree? An ugly tre...

https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns One of the above chracters. ----------------------  Popular pins gleanings Some are pretty clear.  Glancing at a few of them, they are stunning in terms of art and composition and use of color.  People click on pretty things, striking things.  Studying composition of images doubles up for driving clicks and numbers. HomeWork:  Go look at pins from myself or small artists that I like, and compare them to ones that are doing well. Write down differences.

https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns One of the crossbones Pirates. You can find the stories at the above link. ------------------- Pinterest Analytics notes: Pinterest is dating: Etsy, youtube, instagram and small business. Have to have or use a business account. (Which if your primary intent is money/survival, then well, you should start there anyway.) You can pin a lot of stuff and kind of watch what does well and try to figure out why, it’s the only place on pinterest that shows you views or impressions. For our first one, we have a lot of semi-random stuff, but back to niches, again, limiting what you do to a very small specific niche would let you see the impacts of linking your stuff better. Impressions: Number of times you got seen.  Engagements:Saves, closeups, carousel swipes. Current rate just fumbling around and not hitting the ones I wanted to drive clicks or impressions for was around 1/1000 click throughs, last time I thought to check...

https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns Character Illustration for axlreigns. You can find this characters stories there. Deviantart In platform Anlytics related Old Deviantart dated Reddit, facebook, tumblr, twitter, livejournal, google plus, and stumble upon, so either anonymous or dying folk, mostly.  Interesting to note that facebook is under heavy attack with crowd publicity campaigns the last few years, and to look at the other affiliations deviantart had, sort of. (including hosting apples big campaigns.) New deviantart is dating: facebook, instagram, twitter, twitch, youtube, behance, dribble Cool Blurb on analytics: https://www.deviantart.com/danlev/journal/Google-Analytics-For-Your-deviantART-Profile-428755890 In platform : It’s handy if you don’t have a niche to see what of your randomness is doing well. Simple, cuts out a lot of detail, probably all you need for just that platform. For anything major, google analytics is just better cause it s...

https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns One of Axelreigns characters Aurus. The stories about them and the authors can be found at the above link. ---------- Plan for analytics or statistics   Read through all analytics help pages for each major platform with either paraphased notes required on each platforms takes, This will help you talk fancy and get jobs.* in places and companies that put high value on ability to talk. Or Run tests and give charts on them with this info. (this may be more valuable cause it’s the actual skill set, if you have uncorrupted testing ground, which we don’t, as we don’t even know if any platforms actually provide any of this information at all, since our computer has been corrupt longer than we’ve been looking into this.) We’ll start with in-platform side and then the analytics side.

https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns Scalebeard. The stories can be found at the link above. =) -----------  Analytics and statistics and link tracking We spent a fair amoount of time trying to understand how various in platform and google tracking of clicks worked. Hopefully it’ll help us stay safe later cause we’ll know a little bit about what information is available to anyone who puts the effort to look for it. Turns out, it’s a lot, and it can be useful for making money.

https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns The stories of these characters (the pirate lizards) Can be found at that URL. ------------- Original Characters Creation For the most part, it's unlikely any written or drawn character can be said to be the sole creation of any one person. We don't exist in a vacuumn of creative thought. Half the time I think anyone who appears to be original simply gets their inspiration from  areas unknown to the audience--so the best you can truly hope for as a creator is to find new sources of inspiration that are unknown to your crowd and bring the new in. Humans aren't very original.  I don't think it's how they work. I’ve never heard of or seen anyone who came up with something ‘unique’, and with the sheer bulk of humanity on the planet, any idea you could come up with has probably been come up with by at least 500 other people. Attempting to give credit to your actual influences is good, which is more than mos...

------------------- Emotional Security pre-escape Quick reminder:  They can say that you lie, whatever they want. They can bring up whatever personality flaw you have, you are human, you are flawed. You lived through it. It was real. Don't forget, don't let anything they say make you feel that what they did, have done, are doing to you was not wrong. You were a human being that was working, contributing to society, doing stuff. They raped you, blew up your mind, destroyed you, every aspect of you, even your willingness to get out of bed, framed you, told you they were racist, invaded doctors offices, video taped you and shared it, trapped you into aggreeing things you did not want or agree with, tried to force you into prostitution, so on. They can say or make it appear however they want. It doesn’t make them right, and you should just chill out. They’ve been doing it for a while. You can’t prevent it, but you don’t need to let it bother you. At all. What they sa...

https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns You can find the stories there. --------- Thoughts on Scheduled posts. Downside of backlog and scheduled posts, if you are strong or have a good fan base built,Kind of puts you in a terrible position where stealing your account is much more viable. If you have a strong product. Wonder if the art sites are more likely to defend their artists from this than google was to allow me into my account post rape. Dunno. Smaller companies, maybe, but I suspect it’s part of the buddy system of discriminatory platforms If people bring up that sort of creepy shit, start using the block button. It doesn't matter if you know no one, you need to emotionally secure yourself. If you have left and are running, if anyone gives away that tactic, be prepared and have a plan to dip immediately. Keep a bag packed. (Either that or you have to wait a long time and keep testing boundaries while they try to set you up the whole time. Better to have an exit p...

https://www.deviantart.com/lord-of-all-monsters Another version of the lord of all monsters inspired design. --------- Rememberies 2 Other note, I knew a glamor girl that was very popular on tumblr but unrecognizable in real life by her tumblr photos, so what she did was really smart. Worked with her, stalkers would show up at her work place, but not recognize her. She was popular and successful with the account, but safe in real life cause she dressed down and didn’t glam up so when they showed up asking for her they didn’t recognize her.  I think they asked her if she worked there once. It’s a smart thing to do. She never invited them or specifically meant for them to show up where she worked. Unless your niche is specifically based around politics, political upheaval, and similar (say that it’s your niche) Avoid political statements in your account as it lessens the likelihood of a broader base appeal, which means less money. It also tends to incite crowd attacks, ...

https://www.deviantart.com/lord-of-all-monsters Inspired by lord of all monsters mythological creatures. ----------- Location safe: Don’t post about where you are going publically.  Post pictures afterwards, when you are not at location. Pretty much best practice for anyone. Don’t share too much personal information, if you share pics of you limit them. Not the same as your personal account that you share with family members. Generally, less information available is better. If someone gets a serious creepy vendetta, all that information is available for them to use against you. If you share pictures of yourself, use them for specific purpose. It’s unprofessional and dangerous.

Rememberies: I met a girl with an active instagram who traveled a lot and had people show up where she was to give her gifts. Without telling her they would. That is fine, but it can work the other way. They knew where she was. At all times. XD cause of her instagram location being on and posting a lot while out with her phone. Strangers. Just showed up. With gifts.  If you aren’t rich enough to have body guards, that’s kind of sketch in my opinion, for a pretty girl who is pretty in real life. (as opposed to someone good at looking one way online but able to blend in and hide in real liife from stalkers who show up following them. Just saying. Being a chameleon in the age of the internet is not a bad thing or sociopathic. It’s defensive. If you want to leverage your looks for this, a set of pictures taken before you drastically change your appearance or even just ones found on the internet or something. So you have viable recourse after it has been hacked to get your ...

Fond of this character as well.  From  https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns/gallery/59531578/crossbone-pirate-crew ------------ Rememberies: I met a girl with an active instagram who traveled a lot and had people show up where she was to give her gifts. Without telling her they would. That is fine, but it can work the other way. They knew where she was. At all times. XD cause of her instagram location being on and posting a lot while out with her phone. Strangers. Just showed up. With gifts.  If you aren’t rich enough to have body guards, that’s kind of sketch in my opinion, for a pretty girl who is pretty in real life. (as opposed to someone good at looking one way online but able to blend in and hide in real liife from stalkers who show up following them. Just saying. Being a chameleon in the age of the internet is not a bad thing or sociopathic. It’s defensive. If you want to leverage your looks for this, a set of pictures taken before you drastically...

Pretty sure that working on this I had a ton of interfernce from whoever. It was super frustrating. Ah, well. At least I finished it.  https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns/gallery/59531578/crossbone-pirate-crew Stories are here for these characters. ---------- Trying to stay safe  Since we’re operating on the assumption that at some point our attackers will find us again even if we manage to disappear for a while, some thoughts on safe practices. Email considerations, probably what you should start with: Make an account email for this project, seperate from the accounts that have education/bank account logins, similar. Assuming you have a normal job (like grocery store or gas station, or whatever, and you don’t just go cash only, keep that separate. If you’re not completely broke, maybe even a separate cheap device if you think you’re more likely to end up on small websites or opening corrupt stuff.) Art is or can be worldwide, if you actu...

I like this guy. Messed around with animating him a fair bit. From  https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns/gallery/59531578/crossbone-pirate-crew Go there to read the stories. ----------- Flint Michigan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis Buy a house there apparently there’s a brick one for 4000  and get a tow-behind water buffalo or a really good water treatment system for under a thousand. Seriously america.  What is this shit.

----------  Removing water protections https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/climate/trump-environment-water.html Dude you’re supposed to be for us what is this shit americans innovate better answers they don’t do dumb shit like poison themselves...er….wait...do we?

West virginia water polluted  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill Literally have mutant cats in house. Actual mutants. Extra dangling appendages. Are these things correlated or causated? Is causated a word? I dunno. I just find the thought of children born that way because people value money over kids kind of appalling.