So me and the wife were talking today about maybe trying to find ways of making more than £20 a year from making music. We both agreed that the first step involves expanding my audience beyond the safety and security (but relative obscurity) of the Elektronauts family. Given the current impossible nature of good old fashioned local gigging and grafting, the only real option is to create some social media profiles and network the shit out of it. Other than here, I’m only on YouTube, which I only use to post videos on here, so a bit of a cul de sac there.
Then we came up with the bright idea of signing up to Instagram, because I like making videos for my tracks, which is kinda what they do, right?
Anyway, long story short, I’ve signed up and posted two things and now I feel fucking sick because I’m going to have to go round social media following and liking people in the vain hope that they might follow and like me back and in turn might buy some of my fucking music, which I won’t be making as much of because I’ll be throwing all my spare time peering into the friend-smeared abyss of public self-harm that calls itself Instagram trying to get people I hate to like the me that I’m pretending to be.
Needless to say I’ve sacked that shit off.
Back to obscurity for me, after I’ve had a bloody good bath.
So my only real question is how do you guys on Instagram or wherever do what you do without becoming the news story that ends with “before turning the gun on himself”?
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