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