Hello, my dear friend.

Today, I’ve made a decision: I’m leaving Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, and stepping away from Meta’s social media system.

The use of creators’ work to train AI is a major concern for me. Images, music, drawings: these are works created by people, and sharing them online should not mean giving up control over how they are used.

Meta already uses public content shared by adults on its platforms to train its AI, with a right to object available to users in the EU.

Its updated commercial terms, now scheduled to take effect on November 20, 2026, raise another concern: the collection of content from websites associated with business accounts. Publishers’ organisations warn that this could allow material from those websites to be used for Meta’s products, potentially including AI. Meta disputes that interpretation and says website owners can still signal their crawling preferences.

As an artist, the possibility of my drawings being used in this way is unacceptable to me. That concern extends beyond what I post on social media to the work published on my own website. To me, using creators’ work for AI training without their agreement feels like legalized theft, plain and simple.

On top of that, my posts no longer reach everyone who chose to follow me.

Take my Instagram account, for example: it currently has 111,000 followers. Yet lately, when I publish a post, only 3,000 to 7,000 accounts actually see it. And 7,000 is the absolute maximum, a number I reach only on very rare occasions.

All of this has led me to take action: first, to protect my work by removing it from Meta’s platforms; and second, to develop my own website as a more sustainable, long-term alternative.

There are now three main ways to follow my work.

1. Cre.O.N A GO! GO!: follow new posts for free

To address the problem of followers not seeing my posts, I set up Cre.O.N A GO! GO!.

It serves much the same purpose as my social media accounts. Anyone can follow my work through push notifications delivered directly to their web browser. Once you’ve signed up, notifications can let you know whenever I publish a new post.

Just like on social media, you can view the image featured in each post, leave a comment, like it, or share it.

The biggest difference is that the aim is to notify everyone who signs up—100% of subscribers, or as close to it as possible. An algorithm does not choose which followers are included in a notification about a new post.

Your decision to follow my work stays in your hands, too. On Instagram, people have often contacted me to say they’d had to follow me again after discovering they were no longer following my account, without even being notified.

So think of Cre.O.N A GO! GO! as a much more reliable and secure long-term alternative to my social media accounts.

And it’s still free.

2. The newsletter: news about important releases

There’s also a second way to keep up with my work: The Art Of Cre.O.N newsletter, which has been available for a long time.

The newsletter will keep you informed about important releases, such as my sketchbooks, new prints, and more.

There are two ways to sign up:

• From The Art Of Cre.O.N’s homepage: click the large yellow button at the bottom of the page.
• When joining Cre.O.N A GO! GO!: click Follow Cre.O.N. During sign-up, you’ll see two checkboxes: one for notifications about new Cre.O.N A GO! GO! posts, and one for the newsletter. Tick the newsletter box to receive The Art Of Cre.O.N’s newsletters as well.

Cre.O.N A GO! GO! lets you follow new blog posts, while the newsletter keeps you informed about major releases.

3. Cre.O.N – THE PATREON: follow my work more closely

Finally, there’s a third way to follow my work: Cre.O.N – THE PATREON, my Patreon page, where you can get a much closer look at what I do.

For a very small contribution, you’ll get:

• Access to private posts.
• Exclusive artwork.
• Early access to sales.
• A digital print every month.

As you can see, I’ve worked on The Art Of Cre.O.N to make it fully independent, so it no longer has to rely on any outside platform, whether social media or anything else.

Your email addresses and personal information are now stored securely, rather than being passed around on a platform that uses and shares them indiscriminately.

Finally, as you’ve probably gathered, I’ll no longer be posting on Meta’s social networks. However, in 2026, giving up social media altogether would be commercial suicide. It remains the most effective way to share my work and help new people discover it.

So I’ll probably continue using X solely to promote my work, most likely through temporary posts.

Thank you for taking the time to read this article all the way through. Above all, thank you for your support, and a special thank-you to everyone who signs up for Cre.O.N A GO! GO! or the newsletter.

I’ll keep giving my all to my work. Expect some really cool things in the near future.

Peace,

Cre.O.N