🔺🔺🔺Oji-Cree Anishinaabe Kwe | First Nations Internationally Exhibited Artist ~ Exploring Bias in Art, Film, Tech, & Environmental Science | Vegan🌱| Punk X
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i am tipi
making tipi
and you are tipi
collecting tipi from tipi
how's that for branding?! lol
100 metre of three tipi in times square
#NFTNYC2022
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As I ran a 10 1/2 hour space where I didn’t shill my own work I also missed
#PortfolioDay
I am an Indigenous lens based NFT Creator sharing Cree syllabics & also 8+month international community builder ~🔺🔺🔺
@opensea
:
@withFND
NEW Drop
I was feeling I had to conform to photographers in this space. But you know what??! I am a northern girl. I love my life. I share Cree language & syllabics through my photography.
Some people here have never been to Canada..
tânisi “hello” 👋🏼☺️
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My last work: Temporal Exhibition Times Square 06/20/2022
#NFTNYC
So honoured to Headline & host others on my collected frames🔥
I think I may be the only who created 1 piece utilizing the entirety of 100+metre digital screen!✊🏽👩🏽
All event media
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There exist Cree values that I recognize in how i interact in the world. It is important here as I have spoken about cultural differences specifically related to me. This thread is insight in how I function as a Lens based NFT Creator and in my role of community building
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Today “canada day”
I have listed:
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In this photograph I ask you take a moment to acknowledge the generational trauma & indignity that Indigenous, not only here in Canada, but globally are living. I am living ~🔺🔺🔺
#NFTCommunity
#CBC
Hello friends!
I have 2 collections that have only two pieces avail before are sold out!
As one of the upcoming Temporal Visions headliner in Times Square during
#NFTNYC
I feel I owe my current collectors more self promotion to sell out my current collections ✨
links in 🧵
“What am I working on?” here is progress capture (non vector for preview) Photo is mine. yes I use tipis in real life ;) I love sci-fi so also expect to see that. I say to my
#NFTCommunity
ᑭᓇᓈᐢᑯᒥᑎᐣ cree syllabics of kinanâskomitin “thank you I am grateful to you” ~🔺
People ask me why I spend so much time holding spaces to elevate the NFT Global community✨
My Genesis Tipi 🔺 dropped on Canada Day 2021 at 1:41 am. I proudly stand here to advocate for inclusion of all voices, today & every day ~ 🔺🔺🔺
more info here:
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I am happy to announce that I am 1 of 6 International Curators working with “NFT Bali Art Week”
@showupnftart
Frank, Stanley, & Ruanth!
A week long IRL event part of NFT Bali
@collective_eth
NFT Bali Art week will be live at the Superlative Gallery
Hi there
I am Tipi and I have many followers that I don’t know. Can you do me a favour please? Say hello and share your work? It’s so important to me to understand all this social media & to connect with as many ppl that are trying! Kind regards ✊🏼☺️
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I just bought this beauty!! I wonder… does this look like a piece that speaks to specifically to me? 🤔😉
I can’t wait until our very dear
@jota_surreal
discovers his congratulations email! 🤭😁
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I’m so excited to be 1 of 6 Curators for NFT Bali Art Week
Each Curator can select works for
🔥ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS 🔥
so please Submit work on any chain below
(i would submit work to all 6 curator threads! info on website lol 🤫)
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NFT Bali Art
AyHay! To those that came in to share indigenous perspectives from around the world for tipi tuesdays✨
Also taking a moment to recognize those that support lens based NFT creatives & us who are actively working in film industry.
Indigenous women in film✨
#NotYourStereotype
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#IndigenousFuturism
my first
#NFT
on my own contract!
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T8MM -1968
33 sec of mixed media including:
digitized 8 mm film from 1968!!
also tipi-fi (sci-fi themed digital art effect/animation blended from ai static imgs), photography, cree language &
I want to a moment to give a big high five for those of us that have worked really hard since the first quarter of the year!
We pushed aside our own work to further the growth and support of the NFT community .. BEFORE twitter spaces! I see you! Much love ✨Tipi
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Please join us Saturday morning Twitter as we discover more about “Sketch Poetic” and what Sheila has been doing with a healing journey through art✨
You know this applies to many of us! I am so looking forward to this✨
Join link here:
@sheiladarcey
28 DAYS OF GIVEAWAYS. As a token of my gratitude for preordering my book “Sketch by Sketch ”, I am gifting
#NFTs
, POAP, & products daily beginning 12/1 until 12/28. Simply fill out the form below on my website to enter. (1/6)
@MacmillanUSA
@HayHouseUK
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A huge thank you to
@patrickamadon
and the
@clickcreateio
team for including me in this months curation!
ᒣᐢᑯᒋᐸᔨᐏᐣ mêskocipayiwin “evolve”
Especially significant today
#TRC
which is the first year 2023 as a statutory holiday on Truth and Reconciliation
Miigwetch
✨Rising Star Airdrop✨
@NFTipi
is an Oji-Cree Anishinaabe artist who incorporates her deep indigenous cultural roots with a focus on pushing indigenous futurism using a blend of mixed mediums.
Everyone, please welcome
@NFTipi
, the final artist for
@patrickamadon
's “Digital
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i can’t .. i don’t know what to say… i literally cried watching this..
thank you Patrick for personally selecting me to be part of the
@clickcreateio
curator spotlight for the month of september
i am so massively overwhelmed with gratitude to see my artwork featured in
⚡️ ClickCreate is proud to present
@patrickamadon
's curator spotlight ⚡️
"I feel like understanding that the art and the artists are inseparable is kind of my role as a curator"
Learn more about how Patrick curated this outstanding lineup for "Digital Disobedience" in this
Please join me tomorrow as I host an afternoon discussion on diversity and inclusion in NFTs via the new
@eqqolabs
collection✨
Presented by dearest friends
@tayodamnshoes
&
@lem__ny
Confirm time for you on join link:
As I have had msgs & tagged on posts for indigenous connections.
I am now setting a weekly TIPI space for global indigenous creatives to share how they are bringing their unique world views & culture to NFTs. All welcome!
“Tipi Tuesdays” is a now a thing lol I just made it up!
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👋🏽👩🏽 tipi here!!
Ok if you have already submitted for:
✨Open Call for NFT Bali Art Week✨
Please Drop your work below for a chance to be one of my selections for Curator’s SPOTLIGHT at
#NFTBali
Art Week!
Don’t forget the theme is: “Show Up”!
How do YOU “Show Up” for
First day of my new web3 position of Chief Community Management Officer and it was a very fully day w 6 meetings! Phew! Welcome to the team indeed! Lol
How’s was your day fam? What did I miss?!
I created this “Tipi Links” google doc-now on my link in bio ✨
Is listing of 65+ on-boarding URL, YouTube & docs✨
I added what I think others may want to know as I did on-boarding tech/investment over past year 2021. How to, what is …NFT/Crypto ✊🏼☺️
This is little Tipi🔺
ᐅᐸᐢᐲᐤ
opaspîw “survivor”
I was 8 waiting to be adopted. Many didn’t survive the impacts of residential schools. I did and I shout out to all those who keep showing up and using our voices to be the change we want to see
ᑎᐱ Tipi means equal
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I worked since March elevating international community daily.
I will be running an NFT International Women’s space. It will not be the same speakers every week. It will be as inclusive of audience as I have always done. I see you & YOU will be included ✊🏼😊Translators please DM
I am so honoured to be invited to have my works in Dubai
I am too shy to submit requests so simply I don’t. I can’t explain how much it means for people to include me in these International venues
Imagine my foundation pieces my Genesis Tipi in Dubai✨
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#NFT
#Indigenous
Happening now!
#TipiTuesdays
Come share dance & music from your land based identity!
Did you know North American Indigenous did rain dance but also African & even Slavic countries did?
What is a jingle dress? What are hoop dancers?
Join link here:
This gal used to have a blonde Mohawk and go to punk rock shows, sip late night wine in coffee shops where you ordered a pot of tea with a wink lol
I am wearing a vinyl jacket I bought at a second hand shop because I am vegan, I wear chucks, am indigenous &
#NotYourStereotype
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Please check out the first 5/10 images I have on my new collector series on opensea. 5 editions each on slight bonding curve. Which is your favourite?! I have mine!! I will add to top of this thread lol
#NFTPhotography
It’s time lol
I invite you to join the 11th edition of Tipi Tuesdays!
We continue discussing global land based perspectives & merging of our sacred identities w blockchain technology✨
Topic: Ceremonial dance & music from around the world✨
Join link:
I work in film and tech and I don’t see ppl that look like me. I kindly remind that I and others like me are here on this continent and we been here for 10 000 years
Indigenous women are the most underrepresented and repressed✨ Prove me wrong.
#MissingMurderedIndigenousWomen
Our dear
@the_tara_b
has invited me to “share my story”✨
There is one thing I haven’t shared yet..I lost sleep over and over visualize ending the life of someone. It consumed me. Ppl ask why I am not more angry..believe me I have been. why?
Wed 6pm CDT
My NFTipi journey has been trying to understand social media-A genuine challenge as an Oji-Cree woman who walks the sharp edge of the knife between humility & pride✨
It’s been my honour and so I wrap up 2021 w this twitter 10k NOIR photography series✨
Well you know how sometimes I feel the Indigenous voice is buried under all the American and Canadian voices?
Well today I was seen. Only through NFTs have I ever had a voice.
Thank you my friends & thank you
@ParisHilton
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I am Tipi 🔺 in cree that means “equal”✨✨✨
I find it hard to hold such traumatic cultural truth
Often I would rather not say anything at all. As a little girl I used to hide under tables trying to be invisible. People scared me. I felt alone. This is the only photo of me as a child.
I choose to not be invisible anymore
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i am looking to help
@DarrenSRS
to gather Indigenous artists who want to be included in an Indigenous artist neighbourhood in the up & coming
@OM100m
metaverse spearheaded by visionary
@punk6529
Any Indigenous artists please DM me to get you on the form ✊🏽👩🏽
I shared back in spring 2021 how culturally self promotion is a challenge for me as it goes against our teachings of humility
I started
#web3
w 0 followers & held many many spaces for creators
I am still here working on art & collecting for 31 months now just more low key lol
Today in Canada I am dropping my new series of images. My 10 000 year old ancestors walked here. The shapes the ancestors laid out here include many incredibly beautiful animal icons.
I heal for my daughters✨
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Cree: Nehiyawak
“those who speak the same language”
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tansi! 👋🏽👩🏽
a new week! any plans? for me i have to wrap my website updates! there have been shares of my tipi-fi on facebook (i don’t use facebook) now i have requests for prints 🤭🤗
oh! we have our first week dropping below zero! ….winter is coming lol
mucho hugs ~tipi
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#IndigenousFuturism
You know…
I can see my future
i had to suffer much to be able to build my true story of not only survival but optimism
Every day I am manifesting how my First Nation journey will be shared internationally and the depth of experience in the beadwork of
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#Cree
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ᑎᐱ tipi ᑎᐱ added by
@misanharriman
to
#Tezos
Foundation Permanent Art Collection is the first in my monochromatic series:
ᒪᓯᓂᐸᔨᐏᐣ masinipayiwin “photograph”
a collection of cultural photography
w an emphasis of story telling🔥
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So I just showed my youngest the live gallery space where 4 of my foundation photography pieces will be displayed in Brooklyn NYC!
This is second time since my NFT Journey began in February. It’s so much honour for me to share with my mom and daughters! ✊🏼☺️
✨NFT Life 2021✨
I had a beautiful evening. I closed the
@withFND
auction and had my first party in 6months. Thank you all that are here supporting me.
kisâkihitin “I love you” 🤍
A gift of cool days for those around the world in the heat ✨
iyikopiwipesim “it is frosty month”
My very first bid ever! This is a new feeling & I am not sure how to express the overwhelming joy! the auction of my 2/4 pieces from my Medicine Wheel Series has started!
Sunjae ~
atahkohk kitohcîn
“You come from the stars”✨
(AyHay Dario for invite🤍)
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OMG!! My heart! We are all learning here & when i tried my first large project minting I ended up getting scammed! Wow! So super kind of
@Jparkedart
to gift me this beautiful Valkyrie! 🥹🥹🥹🥰
Holy Moly! Look Manuel & Sunjae
@mpiedram
@0xfermata
🔥i love our
#NFTCommunity
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I have supported a lot of people that are excelling in this space. Not just with words but financially. I am going under by supporting but I am not supported back to sustain myself here.
Something is wrong with this dynamic. Indigenous artist still at the bottom✨
I have been asked about the loss of my twin. Well not so much of a loss as she was Murdered. My twin sister is listed on the MMIW as one of the Missing Murdered Indigenous Women here in Canada. On our birthday there was a knock at my door & I was asked if I knew this woman…I did
So many lovely things ppl are saying about the efforts I do to onboard /elevate more into the NFTs but my thought are..
it takes a global village raise .. an ..NFT .. baby.. wait! .. what?! 🤔
you know what I mean lol So thanks all! 👋🏼☺️
much love .. tipi (or tipi-joon lol)
Open call for Artists!
NFT Bali Artweek
Theme “Show up”
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
1. Illustration and Photography - JPEG or PNG | 1080 px on the short edge | 72 ppi | max file size 2 mb
2. Video - upload to YouTube and share the link with us
3. No
Surround yourself with kind respectful people. I have found thousands here in my NFT life from all over the world. When I think of all you that i met over the past year, even if we haven’t shared a chat recently, just brings me pure joy✨
ᒥᔭᐚᑕᒧᐏᐣ
miyawâtamowin “elation”
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not everything is a shill
i am a real woman with real children
and a real northern lake home
i have real emotions
with moments of total elevation
and also devastating sadness
as an artist i float between
i am tipi but i am also clarina
and i am truly happy to connect✨
@CozomoMedici
hello there! i am tipi ~ thank you nice to say hello! ✊🏽👩🏽
i have new
#IndgenousFuturism
#Cree
🇨🇦 which i call tipi-fi 🛸 (sci-fi lol) these are different composites of ai and digital art that i am excited to share 🖖🏽👩🏽
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#NFTNYC2022
#Indigenous
My first peek at my Headliner digital composite for Temporal Times Square tonite!!
Thank you John! the best part was you saying that “ppl were cheering for me when it came on” 🥺
I am beyond overwhelmed with elation! Oh boy! happy tears!!
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Hi ya! So anyone that knows me knows I am not one to shill. I stand proudly independent as always filled with compassion & support for my NFT community.
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I want to add to my 65+ HEN collection so if you would like to throw your objkts below ~ I (& others) can check em out!
i have shared how i feel to market myself as a creative. truth is i often delete my own posts of work because i feel self conscious. it’s not in our oji cree culture to do this for ourselves. i had set op a co op for indigenous artists IRL.please recognize that i too need support
There exist Cree values that I recognize in how i interact in the world. It is important here as I have spoken about cultural differences specifically related to me. This thread is insight in how I function as a Lens based NFT Creator and in my role of community building
cont..
I learn to balance my teachings of humility with that of self marketing here w NFTs.
So to those that have or wish to collect my work - I plan to do better w a drop event for my new photography series:
ᑭᐦᒋᐦᑖᐧᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᐣ Cree:kihcihtwâwisiwin
“being sacred”
✨Oct 7th✨
It’s funny to see ppl say that there aren’t ppl holding international spaces with multilingual NFT Creators.
Hello! I have been doing that since February! I even created my own international “Celebrate” series. Sometimes as an indigenous woman I feel completely invisible
I try.
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#Web3
What I really miss the most:
is the people and how we used to spend time with each other
not just twitter spaces as much as clubhouse-sharing our international life experiences together not just as audience members w emoji laugh tracks
I really miss hearing ALL the
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gm fam! it’s tipi! aah please don’t mind my tweets about me.. i am creating a new work thread 🧵 and so adding but am getting really self conscious 🫢🫢🫢
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#IndigenousFuturism
#Cree
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i am so excited to share the ᓂᑐᐸᔨᐏᐣ nitopayiwin "warpath” piece i created for the “GUERRILLA GALLERY NYC 2023 w
@vizmesh
once again entirely made on ewaste & also photoshop 7 lol (as my piece last year on my pinned tweet)
i also did a tiny
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oh my gosh! i am so overwhelmed!!
i went to collect an incredible piece on Tezos today and discovered my 1950s tipi-fi was collected by our incredible artist
@patrickamadon
🔥🔥🔥🔥
chi-miigwetch patrick! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
ᐁᑯᐢᐲ ᓃᑳᐣ
êkospî nîkân "in the past/ future"
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i am going to say some words here and in the middle of these words i am going to say i am happy that my tipi-fi was selected for display during nftnyc so that is pretty cool and that’s it - the words are over ;)
Oh my goodness!! My wonderful friend just sent me photos of my NFTipi
@withFND
photography at the
DORDOR Gallery! Brooklyn, NY!!!
I can’t believe my Cree Syllabics and my tipi is on a wall in Brooklyn NY!Thank you so much for sending these images Soo Young✨
Follow thread pls.
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tansi 👋🏽👩🏽
most people that have known me in
#web3
since the start have heard or even met my eldest daughter in these audio apps. after all she was the one that on-boarded me to clubhouse feb2021 where i didn’t know one person aside from her lol
this is my eldest.. Saige.
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#IndigenousFuturism
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not everything is for sale and so I created this piece for you listen and take a moment
ᐸᑭᑕᑖᒧᐏᐣ
pakitatâmowin “exhaling” ✨
schubert, trio no. 2, op. 100, andante con moto
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hello hello! here's my artist vs the art!
with very intentional orange!
this piece was made not only for:
~National Indigenous History Month (June)
~National Indigenous Peoples Day (June21)
but also as a representative of my distinct Oji Cree nation in 2 Global Art
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you don’t relate to everyone
&
everyone doesn’t relate to you
the people that you feel connection to
are those on the same vibrational plane as you
we are all on differing parallel universes as we each shift to different versions of ourselves & existence
you are unique✨
the small artists can thrive supported by other small artists.
there is no hype for most of us. we just show up every day like myself for a year and make genuine connections
happy birthday to my web3 me NFTipi✨
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i feel like collecting more on
#Tezos
today so please feel free to share some works below!! 🔥
i just added
@TheCreep__
and
@ser_ocote
to my collection
.
miyo ocetow kisikaw!
(happy new year)
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I work in the film industry where every single frame, of every single film, is an incredible gift of story telling
so is every frame of photography from our International community
my photography is my… ᐃᑖᐱᓯᓂᐏᐣ
itâpisiniwin “world view”
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#IndigenousFuturism
#SciFi
.
“the brightest light
casts the darkest shadow”
jess c. scott
..
new 1/1 tipi-fi
#Tezos
mint today
ᓲᐦᑭᑌᐦᐁᐘᐠ sôhkitêhêwak “brave”
..
🎧 tipi audio mix (me at the end)
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#ArtBasel
well hello! 👋🏽👩🏽
as a three year advocate of international multimedia artists… please never feel that you are missing out by not attending events
for many it is not feasible and for others like myself it is not a decision i would choose to personally spend my
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#IndigenousFuturism
#Cree
i would love it if you would take a moment to check out my latest series
tipi-fi 🛸
ᐅᑕᒥᐦᐃᐍᐏᐣ otamihiwêwin "hinderance"
the first 5 imgs of 10 are listed
Ayhay! ✊🏽👩🏽
#Tezos
Tell me something maybe nobody’s knows about you.
I’ll start. The first job I ever had was an apprentice picture framer-i was 16 annnd still love cutting glass and matte and currently I have full framing shop in my garage ;) …now you!
My NFT crypto life today is quiet & calm: includes munching on oatmeal w blueberries, making a yummy lentil sweet potato curry for supper, & knitting peacefully on the couch. all while we get our first snow in Manitoba. 1 stitch equals a pixel. Wrap your head around that lol 🧶
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how are you feeling? i am doing a tobacco offering at the lake tomorrow morning
i would be happy to include you if you like otherwise you can make your own red cloth tobacco tie on a tree or a sprinkle of tobacco in the water acknowledging ancestors & respect for all life ✨
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i am a perfect example that with almost 15k i post enough daily w this algorithm i still get only 5-10 likes lol
i mean if i wasn’t pragmatic genX i could take it personally but nah! i was raised w/o internet ~ stomping around w a walkman and punk rock lol