Reddit Art, or Ads as Art, is the creation and purchase of @Reddit Advertising as a means of artistic creation. In January of 2019, @Ali Spagnola told me "art is art if the creator calls it art" and a week later, when I ran out of swipes on my dating app, I created @Stoned and Single (advert); purchasing Reddit ads to show my dating profile to women in Los Angeles. It hit 800 upvotes, was seen by 140k people, incited laughter, and only cost about $110. With my @Facebook Ads Prank from 2014 being a legend among friends, I was encouraged to keep going and created a portfolio of ads and web of stories.

Origins

The @frame of 'reddit art' materialized from @Ali Spagnola's prompt, that "art is art if the creator calls it art." A week after, in @Art And Evangelism (newsletter), I declared myself an artist and, later that night, @Stoned and Single (advert) was born. The attention it garnered, in part, prompted @John Zdanowski to later say "I'd fund that" in response to @Aligning Your Spirit (newsletter) three weeks later. Around that time, I was reading @The Ascent of Humanity by @Charles Eisenstein. In the chapter titled@Work and Art United, Eisenstein ponders the demolishment of "our culture's basic dualisms: work and art, work and leisure, utility and beauty." Later, he speaks of @Storyteller Consciousness; the conscious awareness that the stories we tell create the reality we see. Seeing myself as an "entrepreneur" for many years, these @frames—and much of that book—manifested my connection to the label of "artist". Now, as a @Citizen at One, I co-create stories, and @play, with @belief-driven organizations as a means to @Accelerate Humanity's Transition to the next stage of consciousness. The stories, and their context, is @memorialized in my @Mythos One and @Brian+ functions as a guide through them. You can explore them here: #my_reddit_art

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