What’s happening???

Well!

Greetings artists, writers, creatives, and everyone in between! On the heels of my last post, I thought I’d lay out some of the most common art scams I’ve come across in my time doing business as an artist, working on websites, and things I’ve seen cross the desks of fellow creatives.

Hi, hello there! Chances are you arrived at this blog post because you did exactly the same thing I did after getting an unsolicited email from AATONAU staff saying they wanted to interview you for their art website/blog and you’re wondering if it’s legitimate. I’m writing this blog post to save you some time.

As far as I know, they are legitimate/not a scam, but basically, they want you to pay them almost $200 to write an article about you.

Update, November 5th, 2024: 4 days after this blog post had been published, I received a curious email from a “legal representative” of this brand in an attempt to strongarm me into removing this blog post. You’ll definitely want to read more about this below.

Have you noticed? There’s a chill in the air. With rising systems in place like “AI art” and image generation that seems to be creating a difficult and highly competitive environment for artists on the internet, as well as social media platforms that prioritize and reward creating “content” to game algorithms and have your posts be seen by the very people who have already chosen to follow you, there’s also a rising sense of hostility in general towards artists.