can someone explain the payment made to the cascio’s by the estate after leaving neverland came out in 2019.
i have read that the estate paid this money to the cascio’s for the “harm caused”.
can someone explain the specifics of this payment to me and how it’s not evidence of guilt? i am not convinced that jackson is guilty, im just having trouble finding info on this payment aside from tabloid articles.
hi again…it’s me lol.
i handle social media management + content creation for a small but extremely successful family business in the automotive industry.
i started working with this client in the fall of 2024. at first, we developed a good working relationship which i’m sure was supported by the fact that i came in and immediately we started seeing results. we started gaining followers and views rather quickly, and got a lot of input from clients and friends of my client saying they loved our social media. i was literally once stopped in traffic on the way to work by a follower of ours that wanted me to know how much he loved our content lol.
i grew the account by 10k+ followers and brought in millions of views in less than a year, which also translated to higher sales. the entire time, i was careful to tell my boss that we shouldn’t focus on the followers but rather on the content we were making.
at some point, i don’t really know when why or how at this point, my client and i stopped seeing eye to eye on a lot of things and he kept rejecting my content and ideas in favor of his ideas which is felt were always better (they were not). at one point i requested a meeting with him to talk strategy and he asked me where my content for the week was. i told him i had not created anything yet as we hadn’t spoken about strategy and it was unclear to me what exactly he wanted us to be posting. he freaked out at me, accusing me of not doing my job. since then things have been weird.
anyway, we just lost a lot of followers in the bot purge (like around 150) and before that we hadn’t really been gaining much. our follower growth really, really stalled quite a lot. i have been doing what i can but when facing my client and his insistence on doing things his way, i don’t see how we can fix this.
he has started bringing up the fact that we aren’t gaining followers and asking me why that is. i try to explain but he doesn’t understand.
i should also note, this is a person who recently asked me to explain the difference between a post, a reel, and a story on instagram. he has had a social media manager since 2022.
i have also attempted to print out our analytics and stats to show him, but he doesn’t understand what he’s looking at and doesn’t see why it’s important.
he has also called my (multiple) viral reels “one hit wonders”.
anyway…i can’t afford to lose this client rn. but this has become a very, very stressful position. any and all advice would be helpful lol.
(analytics are from this month)
my parents lost everything in the 2008 recession and our family never came back from it. i grew up in a really rich area of the country (US) and was surrounded by people who had money and never worried about it. even my less wealthy friends were never quite as poor as me. my parents have spent almost 20 years trying various get rich quick schemes to get back on their feet instead of trying to slowly build back up, and it’s resulted in a lot of hardship for our family. i wasn’t able to go to college right after high school because my dad technically made “too much” for me to qualify for any student loans, but his credit score was so low we couldn’t take out private loans. i had to pay for college by myself, and as a result i didn’t end up graduating until eight years after i graduated high school (in addition to taking less classes at a time to save money, i also had to take two breaks).
this on its own is nothing bad and i know a lot of people graduate “late”. but for me it’s put any type of professional career on hold. i’m nearly 30 years old now, competing for entry level jobs with people nearly a decade younger than me. i have some professional experience but not a lot. i’m trying to build my experience on my own outside of the office space, which has been relatively successful, but i am still routinely turned down for higher paying jobs and the reasoning is ALWAYS that i “lacked the right experience”.
i do not have room to take risks. my parents are still broke, my partner doesn’t make too much money, and i can’t risk losing all of my savings. job application processes take SO long and just to be told no????? i literally cannot take this anymore.
i don’t even need to be rich. i just want enough money so that im not scraping by every week. my monthly bills amount to more than my weekly paycheck so when the 1st of the month rolls around, and im already paycheck to paycheck, i am literally in the negatives after paying for everything.
i make like ~$38k after taxes. it sucks. this is just not enough to live off of. i feel like im just working to go to work. i don’t understand why things have to be this way. i put myself out there, i work hard, im a great interviewer…like i try to not fall into the trap of believing that something is working against me but i don’t know. i try to remain as positive as i can but its really difficult. i waited until i was 28 to move out of my parent’s house and im just struggling so much.
i am really scared that this is just it for me. low paying, shitty jobs that i settle for for the remainder of my life. endless struggle. never feeling safe or satisfied.
i need this to get better in some way.