Hit 10,000 views on a single piece last night and it changed how I think about exposure

I posted a cyberpunk cityscape sketch to Twitter on a whim and woke up to 10k views at 3am - more than my whole portfolio got in six months. Did a big following actually matter this whole time or was I just posting boring stuff?

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ross.sean14d ago

That's funny, last month I spent a week on a detailed nighttime neon sign painting, got like 40 likes. Then I posted a blurry photo of my cat sitting on my keyboard and it got 2k views. The cat wasn't even doing anything interesting, just staring at the wall. Made me wonder if I should just switch to cat content full time.

parker22414d ago

@ross.sean hit it right on the head. The cat thing happens to everyone. 10k views means the algorithm liked your timing or the thumbnail, not necessarily the art itself. Most of my best work got ignored while a quick study of a coffee cup blew up. The real trick is figuring out what your audience actually clicks on versus what you want to make, and there's usually some overlap in there. You can use that exposure to slowly steer people toward your better stuff once they're already watching.