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It's fine. I hope things get better for me in the future, but I kinda feel like the things that I want might have been reasonable in the past but aren't reasonable now. Like, what I'd like is for, say, a blog that talks about weird things online to discover one of my projects and write an article about it, then it would spread online like in the late 2000s/early-2010s. That's the culture I grew up in with stuff like Kanye Quest 3030. But, nowadays that culture is kinda dead.

I feel like the problem is that a lot of content creators are just lazy mainly because the culture on most websites encourages laziness, like Youtube rewarding creators for producing very similar content on a daily schedule and Twitch rewarding streamers for doing very little. I'm not expecting content creators to search for my games specifically to make videos about them necessarily, but I feel like in the past content creators used to search for Pokemon fan games to play for a quick video because they could say "This fan game has a PREGNANT PIKACHU," and that doesn't happen much anymore. I think there are a lot of reasons for it, but one that stuck out to me is a content creator saying: "Fan games don't matter, they're not official games," and that feels unintentionally revealing on a lot of levels, such as an admittance that apparently it's fine to make videos trashing Game Freak and the official Pokemon games because they're official, but it's not okay to do the same to a game like this because it's not official. I find it more offensive that my games aren't worth any time spent discussing outside of my own comment section than anything negative that someone might say about them in a video. Like "The story is crap, the art is garbage, and the creator is a loser," is far less offensive than "This game isn't even worth mentioning, and neither is the creator."

Anyways, thanks for your comments. Watch the space for my comic, which is nearly completed. I think it turned out pretty well, art-wise. The text is a bit rough, but I'll try to fix it.