@Lady dang it kibi now I’ve got a mental background thread trying to come up with a hyper-personal performance art style based on whispering to the intended audience.
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@Lady I think all artists have the base Potential to go viral, but certain subsets have a higher Chance to go viral, if that makes sense
@coriander i mean more concretely WILL all artists go viral, like, is it possible for every artist to go viral, not necessarily at the same time necessarily, but every artist, at least once, having a moment of virality
@Lady ohhh I see
I think given an infinite amount of time, eventually every artist would get at least one good meme made out of part of their body of work, yeah
@coriander a more precise way of saying this might be "is it possible that an artist will never go viral?"
@Lady Yeah I just misunderstood the initial question
@Lady Nope! And not all artists can amass followers, either, however much it'll be possible here.
Like I don't blame people for WANTING it, and don't think they should feel bad for that, but expecting it or setting yourself up to need it is a rough sort of gambling.
But I dunno where the best place of interaction to express that is.
@gaditb i typically approach these questions from the position of a designer, like, “assuming that there are artists who won’t go viral, and assuming that those artists are potentially the most interesting and radical artists and the least supported, shouldn’t they be our focus?”
i think changing the conversation from being about “all artists” and instead acknowledging that the field of artists is not flat and there are some which need our support rather than others… you have to start there
@Lady Yes absolutely that should be our focus in how we try to understand and decide on what our desired ends are, to start, but also we're not ACTING from the position of a designer -- we're acting just as individual unpriveleged nodes in the social graph and need to shape the resulting actions we decide to take based on that.
@gaditb hmm well i mean technically I’M acting as a mod and developer of a fork but :P
@Lady some go bacterial
if the answer is “just a subset” i’m pretty sure i’m more interested in the complement