you only need 1000 true fans

>>2701324

Having 1000 die-hard fans is difficult though, especially on the internet where attention you get is very ephemeral and after a year or two you might be old news.

Also having each of them spend 100$ per annum is quite a lot. It's more than $8/month.

Thinking in terms of Patreon, you'd have to be in the first 150 best creators. Even people in the rear are quite profilic and have been there for years.

Moreover, not every niche will be big enough for you to fill. Even dedicated and very long lasting communities, like the Quake 3 Arena/Quake Live community, are actually around 500 people actively watching streams and less than that donating to tournaments or subscribing $5 for streams.

Also, see at Mohrbacher: he gets like 300 people on Patreon and supplements it with sales of his $10 prints. Do you think he has 1000 people that will be dedicated to him for the next 5-10 years? Do you think his fanbase will grow if he will still speciallize in angels only?

It's a nice theory in OP, but it's kinda more difficult than "simply have 1000 true fans".

On the other hand there are people like Mark Carder that price their oil paintings between $30 000 - $75 000, but he is a guy who did, among others, portrait of George W. Bush when he was still a president...

>>2701324
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>>2701324
I don't want true fans. True fans are the kind of creep who will stalk you, send you semen letters and dry hump you in public. Then they are too autistic to survive on their own and you end up having to take care of them.

Lucky, most people care about art, not artists, so they will split their 100.

Also, instead of 100,000 income, 20,000 is a better target.

People spending $20-30/year on you is actually realistic.

>>2701349
>True fans are the kind of creep who will stalk you, send you semen letters and dry hump you in public.
wat

you can't "force" true fans so it's not even worth worrying about, you essentially have to get the 100,000 'fans' to have any chance at getting the 1000 true fans mixed in, it's an all or nothing deal

>>2701349
>True fans are the kind of creep who will stalk you, send you semen letters and dry hump you in public.
You have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

We're talking about fans, not autistic faggots. True fans like your work and are willing to support you for you to make more regardless of what it might be. They also understand that you're human. Autism is when the person idolizes you like a demo-god/celebrity while desperately trying to be your friend whenever they talk to you. That mentality runs rampant in fandoms, but fandoms rarely consist of true fans. Just autistic people who use what they obsess over as a part of their identity. Meaning it's about them at the end of the day, not you. They might throw ridiculous amounts of money at someone, but that's because of their autistic obsession, not because they are a fan.

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>>2701359
>We're talking about fans, not autistic faggots. True fans like your work and are willing to support you for you to make more regardless of what it might be.
That is some special kind of human and sounds like a rare resource. And however I think about it in my head 99% of these fans are screwed up one way or another.

And you will be together forever.

I want people to enjoy my art, not open a fucking cult.

>>2701349
>you will never get semen letters from your fans like this guy
>you will never get chubby slags sending you photos of their assholes or foreveralones sending you pictures of their disappointed, humiliated moms holding prints of your shitty porn like shadman
why even live

>>2701380
You are actually the one who seems a bit screwed up with this weird projecting there.

>>2701389
>chubby slags
that girl was pretty hot honestly

>>2701420
>he thinks there's only one

>>2701403
There is no projecting here, you are clueless about what you talk about. The moment you have fans which care about you, humane or not, you have a personality cult. I like my art like a competition where buyers go with what they like, not support me because my name is on it.

If I wanted to have true fans, I would become an idol.

>>2701436
>If I wanted to have true fans
>I would become an idol.
>become an idol
>for true fans

Are you mentally challenged?

>>2701603
You certainly are. But prove me wrong.

>>2701436
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I have almost 3000 followers on pixiv, how do i translate that into money without being a patreon street-beggar?

>>2702169
Sell merchandise, sell doujin, sell prints, etc.

More fans, more haters. The better my posted work gets, the more people on /ic/ say nasty, hateful shit to me. I don't care if it's because they're losers, or whatever. I don't want it.

>>2701671
>But prove me wrong.
That's not how that works, you made the claim. You have to prove it's true. You can't though because it's obviously false.

>>2702151
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>>2702227
Are you implying your greentext was something else than shortsighted bullshit? If that was actually something I should reply to rewrite it. Otherwise, the post is just an insult, which I replied to with an insult.

>>2702206
Quit being a lil scrub and just take it man, if you're too thin-skinned to take flak for what you draw how are you ever going to improve

>>2702242
Not gonna make it.