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| The ghost of a shell needs examination |
I don't think this is a tantrum, nor do I think it's a wailing of a fake underdog political pundit who wants to seek attention. "Telling it how it is".
This is me, taking the bullet out of my ribcage, examining the ashes of my burnout. Then growing up and moving on, if I can do that is. I don't want to make a mistake like last time.
If the social media ceo's like Jeff or their ilk, send me a hired assassin as I write this. Tell them that making others look at an excavator golem was worth it, I made it in good taste.
Social media takes one of the most valuable resources, time, for the nebulous carasoul of status roles. Not caring if one is burned out chasing the hours doing free 'publicity' within the social media chat boxes. Along inside the ways that's apparently a way to promote oneself, a brand advertisement for people looking for you. Unmeasurable, yet still a time sink.
A fair weather friend or a true friend is blurry. The tribal high school rules could dominate one's life within social media if one lets it.
Again, the double-standards of free work within art are too much.
I simply can't build a brand, a social media brand for everyone. It takes time. Time that one can't pay with a price. The bottomless chasm of free that comes with it with the social media.
Smallest viable audience applies here.
Could friendship really be bought? With Twitch subscriptions and server boosts? I hope not, yet the relative force of status roles are a thing. The stories we tell ourselves that others can afford.
Each free project is still a project, humblebragging premotion with high, made up social media stats that cannot lie. Who's moving up? Who's moving down? "I don't have much, but I have more than you do." I have to Tailgate the status media game if one has too, if somebody wants to stay within solvency.
Status media roles are simply the weather, present and neutral, same as the free price tag. Since once cannot see this basic sociological axiom, though, one can act accordingly with the artifice social media has constructed around it.
To leave like a good, polite customer. That's the only thing I've got. Thanks Seth, for the wisdom.
Thanks for letting me rant.