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The Term Selling Out

KevinMao133

KevinMao133

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I was looking at my blog and noticed my traffic has gone up and down

I want to increase traffic however I worry about some things

This is where this term come to use

While it be good if my content got more views, I am afraid of selling out

I don’t want to change my content just for views. I don’t want to lose my originality due to some numbers

Can’t say I’m not being affected but I’m doing my best to minimize the impact
 
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I’m curious what getting more views does for you. Is it something where you earn money? Something where you feel validated? What is the benefit of getting more views?
 
KevinMao133 said:
I was looking at my blog and noticed my traffic has gone up and down

I want to increase traffic however I worry about some things

This is where this term come to use

While it be good if my content got more views, I am afraid of selling out

I don’t want to change my content just for views. I don’t want to lose my originality due to some numbers

Can’t say I’m not being affected but I’m doing my best to minimize the impact
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Good concerns to have, Kevin.

Something I think about each time I access YouTube and see images designed to promote "click-throughs", yet have absolutely nothing to do with the actual presentation once a viewer watches it.

Shameless promotion at any cost. Yeah- selling out.
 
KevinMao133 said:
Well I’m not doing it for views, nor is it for money

But the pressure to do what society wants is looming
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Why feel pressure if you are doing it for yourself? In thinking about society, just remember that half of those you meet will be below average intelligence and have few ideas of their own.
 
I think I know what you are getting at. I have been a part of entertainment work "officially" since 2002, but I have been around entertainment professionals my whole life. It's a great feeling to entertain, being creative, doing things that I can do and enjoy...but I can NOT handle the popularity part of it, don't really want it and really don't like how there's a set formula to have to "sell one's self" to even become and then further maintain the popularity. The hard catch-22 is that by not doing such things, you don't get to better secure any kind of profit where you get to keep doing those same things (or just not near as much).

Is this what you are talking about?
 
Dagan said:
I think I know what you are getting at. I have been a part of entertainment work "officially" since 2002, but I have been around entertainment professionals my whole life. It's a great feeling to entertain, being creative, doing things that I can do and enjoy...but I can NOT handle the popularity part of it, don't really want it and really don't like how there's a set formula to have to "sell one's self" to even become and then further maintain the popularity. The hard catch-22 is that by not doing such things, you don't get to better secure any kind of profit where you get to keep doing those same things (or just not near as much).

Is this what you are talking about?
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Yep

I was reading a story about a man winning 50 million. He’s from the city that I’m living in

While money is good, the unwanted attention wasn’t something he expected

I don’t need extra attention, I don’t crave attention
 
You may want to do what I have done and create a pseudonym (or several). I do creative works using five different pseudonyms, actually. With how technology has become, it's easier because you can have something as simple as whatever specific email address name attached to a cashapp like pay pal or something. So many entertainment professionals use "stage names" since forever, and so none of the big companies out there care what name you choose for the public. You basically never have to give your real name, save for the formal contracts you have to sign for whichever company hiring you - tax purposes, etc. If you really don't want to do any personally directed promotion, you could always do cross-promotion. I actually do better and feel better by promoting and talking about all of my influences and their works instead of struggling to talk about myself and whatever project. I feel like any attention gained is more on merit, as well. I just feel way better about it. Projects and work for other companies thankfully have their own marketing team to try and sell whatever.

Film distribution is the toughest nut to crack of all in the entertainment industry. The gatekeeping allowed is because controlling the bandwidths and such for streaming or even getting into a theatrical showing is so very costly, plus it's harder to host or screen due to the huge file sizes of a film. Music, comics, book publishing and the like are mega easy to release on your own and at little-to-no-costs. Again, though, the marketing and promotion of them will be the hassle, unless you can pay someone to do that for you.

I learned all of these things first hand, too. I didn't enjoy a single minute of that education, haha.
 
Seems to me that, since you notice your traffic fluctuations, and since you say it gives you confidence, you have already determined to pin your self evaluation to something as ethereal as internet vagaries. It could be argued that ‘selling out’ equates to letting other people decide how you act.

Not to say that that’s an evil thing. I make a conscious effort to avoid offending others, but frankly I don’t think highly enough of other people’s opinions to attempt to mold my behavior to them. If you don’t want to mold yourself to please them, why check your traffic in the first place? If you check to see that you’re pleasing them, why say you’re unwilling to change?
 
Orange Chocolate Crunch said:
A lot of things online just struggle to gain traction anymore.
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The internet is definitely not as good as it used to be since social media "platforms" emerged. Most of the forums I look at now are dead. People moved to Facebook. On top of that, Google may find a million results but will only actually show the same 60 or so over and over again. So good luck running an independent website. And if you do try to run an independent website, get ready to deal with bots bots and more bots. When I did my last wordpress blog, I had to close the comments because all I got was spam bots spamming.
 
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