Hi Steemers,
I don't do reposts, but on this occasion I feel that I should.
I have been wrangling with whether or not to do so for the past 3 weeks as reposting I assume can be a pretty touchy subject.
The Reason For The Repost
I created a short motion graphics animation for Steemit on my second post which you can see here. I posted it under the hashtag "motion" as the primary and a few other hashtags like #motiongraphics, #creativesgettingpaid and a couple of others that never ended up showing up either.
There's Nothing Under "motion".
Have a sneaky suspicion that it might never have been created when I posted the article as I didn't check. There is also the possibility that it did exist and then after a server update or something like that it got deleted.
I know I posted everything correctly so a bit stumped as to what went wrong with the tags. If you search for motion, nothing comes up.
Invested 4 days on the animation and spent about 350 GBP (450 USD) on plugins, render farm outsourcing and licensing the music track from Audio Networks.
I'm not whining or anything....at least I hope I don't come across like I am, but it's a bit of a downer to have invested the time / money (for a wonderful cause) and know that if anyone searches the topic / tag that I posted it in, nothing comes up. As possibly the first professional creative on Steemit, would have been nice to start the category.
Don't get me wrong, people did see the post and up-voted / commented and I generated a few Steem dollars and am super stoked about that, but definitely exposure wise, I got the short straw.
The original idea for me here is that I want to see the feasibility of slowly migrating my professional animations portfolio to Steemit as well as be a contributing blogger on a range of topics. I'm also trying to spread the word among other animators and creatives in my field to check Steemit out and contribute some awesome original content.
It's a bit of a worry when smaller tags that could grow and become popular are possibly lost for whatever reasons and only the strong or trending ones stay like steemit, indroduceyourself and similar.
Motion graphics / VFX is a pretty cool industry and can really bring tons of engaging and creative content Steems way but stability of the Tags and Topics section needs to be addressed.
Would love to know if this has happened to anyone else or is it just me.
Feel free to comment :) !
Beers and cheers!
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