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You've Found Me!

  Hello and welcome! I see you've found me. Whether it was through my socical media or the various whiteboard doodles around campus, I'm happy to have you here! This is my blog for my Marketing class, but I post some other stuff here too. Stick around a while, see if anything catches your eye!   As a fun little bonus for anyone who's seen my stuff around campus; commenting on this post gives you a chance to choose what I draw next! Nothinng offensive, keep it safe for work, I have the right to not draw any suggestions, yadda yadda. So! Go explore my blog, see what secrets you can find. Tata for now!

I LIVE!! (An Update)

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 HELLO EVERYONE! I LIVE!!! This is just a quick update. Hi! Hello, how is everyone? Midterms just finished recently, adn they absolutley kicked my ass. But I passed! They're over now, so I have a bit more time to get back to work on what I love.    Recently (relativley), I saw Iron Lung! God, it was so good, solid 8/10. Really well done, I'm a sucker for practical effects, and the movie really sticks with you. I'm working on a larger piece for it right now, and as an apoligy for my silence these past weeks you all get some sneak peeks! Fishy fishy...... I never thought that the hardest part of this piece (so far) was making the fish fillet look correct. I think I've done a pretty good job though! Having personally gut a fish, i have a decent idea of what the insided looks like. You can still see the (pixelated) reference image I used though haha.... Anyways, that's all for me for now! See ya soon!

Social Listening: SEGA and their Fans

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 SEGA is a popular household name when it comes to video games. Almost everyone has at least heard of their mascot franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog, especially with it's series of blockbuster movies releasing to critical acclaim over the past couple of years. This year, Sonic is celebrating his 35th anniversary, and many fans are excited for special announcements the dev team has teased and for the future of the blue blur. Over the years, Sonic has been no stranger to ridicule and backlash, with a wide variety of his games from the mid to late 2000's receiving poor reviews and dissapointing consumers and critics alike. Just under a decade ago, Sonic had his biggest blows yet, with the glitchy mess of Sonic Boom releasing in 2014 only to be followed by the poorly received Sonic Forces 3 years later. Sonic Boom was a mess of bugs and glitches[5][6], clearly rushed for release similar to the infamous Sonic '06 had been a decade before this. When Forces came out, people were ...

How It's Made (Part 1: Brainstorming)

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   Something that forever intrigued me before starting my small business was the mystery of how fan merch was made. All these artists creating prints and keychains and various memerobilia in such large amounts. It almost felt like trying to figure out how a magician does their tricks. Now, however, I have some more insight into it. So, for those who want to start selling merch or are just interested in the process, I'll be going through it step by step! For this, I'll be using a new set of keychains I'm making as an example. Overall, no matter what the end product is, they all follow a similar set of steps: 1. Brainstorming 2. Pre-Production 3. Production 4. Formatting and finally 5. Release    I'll be touching on each aspect of these in seperate posts, going in chronilogical order. These will be done in real time, with Step 5 being posted the same day I launch the merch! Be sure to read thee carefully, as I may slip some discount codes into various posts. I'm no sa...

Marketing in the News: The Steam Machine's Value

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  The Steam Machine, or the "Gabe Cube" as some poeple have been calling it, is the next iteration of the already popular Steam Deck, a handheld pc gaming device released by Valve in 2022. This new console, unveiled in late 2025, boasts 4k graphics, up to 2 Terabytes in storage, and your entire Steam PC gaming library avaiable to you in fast, hi-def console form[3]. The Steam Deck pioneered the idea of tranferring your PC gaming to a portable medium, similar to the idea of the Nintendo Switch. However, the leap to your TV with the ease and accesibility most home gaming consoles allow has turned heads, exciting both casual and hardcore gamers alike. With no price point upon unveiling, gamers remained hype but hesitant, as the Steam Deck before it had a high but reasonable price point given the capabilities of the hardware.   Recently, the tables have shifted on people's view. According to leaked information from multiple major Czech retailers, the price of the Steam Machin...

SUPER EPIC INTRO POST!!!!!!!!!!

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Greetings, Fiends...   This is my blog..... You can call me Stego or Ahryn, either really work for me. You can use he/him or they/them pronouns referring to me. I'm a 23yr old student going for a marketing degree, and this blog is my first big boy step into it. My main thing, other than being a college student and working part time, is that I'm an artist! I run an online store that sells fan merchandise based around a variety of different forms of media. all of the work is drawn and designed by ME (no Ai slop to be found here) and shipped out from my base of operations direvtly to whomever wishes to purchase. Prints, keychains, pins, stickers, I'm even working on production of stationary items! My goal is to allow both myself and other epople to express their love for the media they consume with high quality products designed and drawn by a real human being.   I'm sure youre curious, "Well this man sounds quite charming and totally not like a huge dork! I wond...