I quickly realized this early 2021. NFT art sales are essentially just like traditional art sales. In order to sell, you need clout, you need a following, you need collectors and galleries checking for you.
It's funny because I'll see people on my TL with no following at all, talking about, "They're about create an NFT" and I just laugh and scroll by it. Not because I'm salty or hating, but because people have no sense of how shyt works. They see a headline and think they on to something new, when really it's the same game for the most part. The people who have eyes and attention garnered in Web 2.0 are going to continue to win with Web 3.0... Your popular digital artists now really benefited from this move if they were on it early.
If you're a dope illustrator/digital artist, but you don't have a big following, you are going to have to build up your network in this space for you to do numbers
I have a college friend who is absolutely obsessed with NFTs and won't shut up about it.
She's constantly trying to explain it to me, even tho I already know what it is and how it truly works but she is always so excited over it I just let her talk.
I work in television media and I also draw (character art--Marvel/DC style stuff), do photography, play guitar, and produce music at home as hobbies. Shes someone that up until now didn't aspire to much other than "getting a job" straight outta college, thought being lightskinned and under 140lb with a college degree would automatically get her by, and she lacks any personal artistic talent herself. She really didn't put in that extra mile to have the career success she hoped for. So she's all into this and constantly trying to get me in on one her little hustle. Swears the moment we make NFTs together we gonna be millionaires overnight.
I know better and tried to explain to her that it's not as easy as just making it and selling it off for seven figures. If I have no profile in the world of music or art--traditional, digital and otherwise--no one with millions of expendable income is buying my shyt. But she wasn't tryn hear it.
She the type of person that lives off social media, is obsessed with taking and uploading selfies, and listens to ANY shyt she sees in a meme or a Youtube link. She was totally anti-vax, she's becoming more and more of a TLR-esque "anti-mainstream media" fake militant, and she's always trying to get me to believe some shyt that just ain't true. And now she's all caught up in "get rich now" "how I made a million dollars in ten days" Youtube, including all the misleading NFT hype.
It's sad. She's just kind of naive and bubble headed, but we mad cool so I let it rock.
