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   clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 18-May-2026 03:04:18 JST clarity flowers

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   • lauren boethiah

   @esvrld I airdropped my copy of ogdo iii with my girlfriend last week because she wanted to read the abaddon interview. but also, I tried sending it over discord first and the file was too large to share so that definitely didn't help.

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     lauren boethiah (esvrld@normal.style)'s status on Monday, 18-May-2026 03:04:19 JST lauren boethiah

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     but as a strategy to get people to actually read it i can at this point say it has been a complete failure. you can tell people that the work is free and that they can and should save copies and send them forward; and they simply will not do that. it will not filter anywhere, it will not find its audience, it will not spread organically

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     lauren boethiah (esvrld@normal.style)'s status on Monday, 18-May-2026 03:04:20 JST lauren boethiah

     the ogdo's guerilla marketing strategy was born from a series of constraints i had going into the experiment, among which were that i did not want to invest in any kind of permanent distribution infrastructure and wanted to excise any kind of marketing-brained thinking that might bind me to any criteria other than the artistic programme i'd set to myself. and in those respects it has succeeded