SOCIAL MEDIA WAS A LIE
Maybe social media isn’t just a distraction like, while we’re making coffee, but a distraction from how we used to do business.
Years ago we’d set up at craft fairs, local markets, book tours, set up at zine fests and punk rock flea markets, open store fronts – all these wonderful things to enrichen our communities.
But then we’ve spent so much time trying to impress or reach 1000 people every other hour because it somehow worked for other folks who won the social media viral sweepstakes. “Hey,” we thought, “if they could do it, so can I!”
When in fact that viral-ness happened because the platforms were designed to bring in hoards of people and then focus the laser beam of attention on the winner each day.
It was never meant to last, or to benefit the artist. It was meant to increase shareholder value, nothing else.
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