u/Eaglingonthemoor

I've deactivated facebook and instagram and I swear the only thing I miss about them is being able to scope out upcoming gigs and keep up with local bands. The only non-meta site I've encountered that lists gigs only has like, 3 bands that actually use it. I could just rock up at a live music venue and roll the dice, and I probably will, but then even if I did come across a band I like and want to see again, how would I find out when they're playing?

Does anyone know if there is some kind of workaround? The internet age is a nightmare and I am dying of lack of live music disease.

I have been getting a steady flow of comments to varying degrees of condescension who either a. clearly didn't watch the video or b. flat out admit to not watching the video. Today one just hit me in the wrong mood and it is taking all my restraint not to snap at them. I don't want to be one of those creators where you scroll down to the comments and they're brawling down there. But why call my video bad faith, then ADMIT you didn't watch the conclusion (and would have had to skip the intro too in order to get the thesis so exactly ass backwards), and then say "but thanks for putting so much effort into it". Like if you respected the effort I put in you'd surely watch the whole video!! Like it's not even long!!! It's ten minutes!! I am about to start blasting 🔫 I am going to kill everyone in this comment section

I have an app that spoofs youtube but without ads and with loads of customisation options, like you can force shorts to play in the normal player and etc. Does anyone know of something like that for studio where I can not have comments on the dash. I am tearing my hair out over here. There's a non-zero amount of misogyny in there too which I am NOT enjoying.

Every now and then I will just be smacked in the face with how absurd cptsd is and I find it so funny, but it's the kind of funny where saying it to people would just kind of make them furrow their brow in concern. But maybe someone here will get it.

Lately I have been keeping my childhood doll around more often. I live alone with no pets so it's been good for me to have something to hug in times of trouble. I've had her since I was a month old and I've been getting a lot of comfort from the idea that she's been with me for my whole life. But just now, I was thinking about that, and then I thought, and I am not kidding: "what if she doesn't actually want to be here though :/"

The attachment trauma on me to be splitting on an inanimate doll. Like pleeasseee. This is so funny to me. I've also split on a video game character I was romancing and ASMR girlies mid-video. Just suddenly for no reason at all like "no... I think you intend me harm actually." It is always just a passing feeling like a stray neural pathway is firing by mistake but boy is it indicative. Can my amygdala please relax 😭

Most talk I see around here is about the business side of things - metrics and packaging, theorycrafting about The Algorithm, etc. Important subjects, not knocking it. I care about metrics.

I don't see so much about process or craft, but I sincerely doubt that's because nobody cares about those things, it's just not the topic at hand. But the absence makes me feel like a pretentious artist in a room full of pragmatic business people sometimes. So question: how much of an artist are you about your channel? Do you think of yourself as A Creative?

I have never been a person with enough friends to really fill out a birthday party but this is the most alone I've ever been. And I'm badly burned out so I can't make it nice for myself in any meaningful way. So it goes. 🥳

Edit: thanks everyone, this was nice to wake up to. You're all very sweet.

A few viewers on a recent video of mine are not picking up on the theme I spend a good deal of time establishing at the beginning of the video and then get to the end of the video with no idea what point I'm actually making. And it's really hard for me to tell whether I need to tighten my writing or whether these folks are not my intended audience. Or perhaps if they are skipping that chapter assuming it isn't relevant. Or just not paying attention.

I see a lot of these types of uncomprehending comments on other folks' extremely good videos that I KNOW are tightly written so I want to think it's just that not everyone is going to "get it" and that's fine, but I am curious about other's experiences with this. I don't want to assume my writing is infallible but I don't want to "dumb down" for the average two-screener either cos my videos aren't for them. I want to attract an attentive and engaged audience.

Are your commenters kind of dumb and annoying too? How do you know when it's a flaw in your video vs a flaw in their comprehension?

There's such an odd feeling for me as a small creator in the first few days after releasing the video where I can tell people are watching and the metrics look solid but I have no idea whether any of those people actually enjoyed or got anything out of the video. Usually comments will start to come in at a certain point so I eventually find out what people think overall but the meantime is such a weird situation as a creator. Imagine showing someone a drawing you did and they look at it expressionlessly and then walk away - but you guess it must be good because they looked for more than 30 seconds. Honestly kind of an absurd medium.

Is this just me? Lots of talk about metrics on here but metrics don't feel like that good of a proxy for whether people LIKED it. Like REALLY liked it. I watch entire videos I don't like that much all the time. All these people all over the world who have seen my work and I'll never know if they liked it.