The Web without an audience

Ars gratia artis In the digital world, everyone strives for your attention. Advertisements, content creators, flashy websites, news outlets, other people on social media... and the list goes on. Even you may have found yourself craving for those sweet precious likes, while posting cute kitty pics on the web (no hate, we have all been there one way or another). And I must admit I’m not immune to this issue, either. That said, I don’t want to talk about the already very much discussed “dopamine” hellholes of social media. Instead, I would like to focus more on how we perceive creativity and its value on the WWW. We are so used to thinking that our creative work is only as good as the amount of approval it gets (in the form of likes, shares and comments), that every time I start writing, I can feel that subtle pressure: “Will anyone even care about what I want to say?”. As if the number of interactions was the only indicator of the value of my work. A constant chase for validation which…