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As a person with an audience – you get to a point where the audience feels like an insatiable beast that just wants wants wants and never gives back. Soon you feel like a monkey dancing for peanuts to a jeering crowd that will move on to the next monkey immediately when you stop. You are only as good as your last [new] piece of content.

Social media has long since stopped being a bazaar of ideas and stimulating exchange. These days to most people it’s passive entertainment fueled by semi amateur creators. It’s no linger social media, now it’s social media.

It's pretty draining if you’re on the creator side.




And unless you possess an extraordinarily wide creative range, people will eventually get bored with your work. Note how most YouTube channels are only popular for a few years at most. You discover one, it's new and interesting, you watch, can't wait for the next post. After a while the videos start to run together, the next one seems the same as the previous one. You start to look around at what else seems interesting. And that creator falls back into obscurity.


Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

Is there another alternative between dancing monkey and despair? It seems like many rock'n'rollers settled on a more artistic approach, with some 'dancing' thrown in for fun.

(Also, to be clear, I'm talking about a pattern that, IMHO, extends to every corner of society, from government leaders to non-profit leaders to artists to doctors to my friends and neighbors.)




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