While making a post on a social media platform the other day, I hit a viral status. Immediately I made the move, as artists often do, to share some projects I’m working on, things for sale, places to follow me, et cetera. I always have something going on, so I’m eager to share any of the many things I’m working on. Someone commented to let me know how “foolish” I was to link these things, and how by adding links I was apparently devaluing the post somehow or making it seem like an ad. The comment irritated me, and though I should know by now not to engage with what is effectively a troll, I did engage. I replied, and they got nasty back, but the reason I had replied in the first place was because I thought it was important to make my side public to anyone that shared the same opinion. It’s very simple:

I am an artist, not a content creator.

I don’t post a lot about computer issues and their solutions (after all, this is not a tech blog), but when I do, it’s because the solution is not readily available on a quick search. I want to post about this particular issue that may have you tearing out your hair, as I was tearing out mine working on it. If you just need the solution and don’t want to hear how or why, you can skip to the solution here.

It’s a tiny bit early, but I wanted to make sure that everyone got a nice holiday greeting (or two) from me this year, so I’ve decided to attach my yearly in review to this blog post as well.