I’ve mentioned this a handful of times and it’s been brushed under the rug as jealousy instead of becoming an actual discussion of ‘why do you feel that way’ so i concur with the above statements. I’ve had timed where I spent 8hr+ days (we probably all have at least once during this hobby) dressing up, filming, editing, refilming and then finalizing only to have nothing happen at all. No response. No likes. No critiques. Nothing. It got to a point where I wanted people to leave hate comments because it meant they saw what I created and didn’t like it…Which meant they took the time to tell me they didn’t like it…which is interaction. And that’s when I started to beat myself up to a pretty concerning degree. I spent hours of time burying myself in cool editing techniques and things to be flashy and amazing and eye-catching (I was never doing anything I didn’t want to do, because I always wanted to be better but still) so I could have a wow-factor and just ignore the fact that I wasn’t at the same level as other RPers (and didn’t have the time to truly advance on) only for it to fall flat and I felt my time was wasted and my effort poor. Before I post online, I felt like I’d done an amazing job, but because others didn’t think so, I believed I was wrong in liking what I thought others viewed as mediocre. I loved every second of what I did (minus editing because who likes editing) but it felt useless. So I stopped. It effected my offline life too, haha. To where people would ask me what was wrong, but I couldn’t explain it because it wasn’t a conventional problem so I just internalized it (that’s personal problem, but it did stem from lack of interaction online and offline).
Something that’s true is you should never focus on the likes and reblogs and notes and what have you…but we post online to get interaction. I’ve seen a few posts go around over the past year on this subject, and you can’t tell me you post on a public forum for no one to see what you do. That’s the point of it. You might not want popularity from it, but maybe you’d find a few friends from it. Whatever the reason may be, you post (creatively) online for interaction/connections. For example, people post their incredible makeup skills on Instagram because they want to…but also to gain interaction of people sharing their opinions, spreading it around, etc. Eventually a lot of those people end up being sponsored due to interaction. A lot of y'all post polls on things you don’t really need to ask the public about because you want interaction. This is clearly something that has me a little peeved, so I’ll stop here but I’m more than willing to have a further discussion on this.
amandla
izzy806
gummygunk
stormborns
2087
