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Theres a guy I know who focuses on always getting high numbers. He's one of those startup weirdos.
Bragged that he got 100 likes with his new shirt.
Bragged that his photo of his smoothy got major engagement and was trending.
It seems exhausting to constantly perform like that.
I think about that quite a lot when I'm watching some of my favourite channels on YouTube. Just how much they have to keep on having ideas, and how much time and effort goes in to that 15 minute video you've just watched.
I don't have the energy for that.
My wife handles my social media for my company and does exactly what you say. 2 days on a simple clip just to get a few engagements. I appreciate her efforts from the bottom of my heart, but I hardly think it's worth it. I'd rather her use that time and energy to do something that makes her happy.
Depending on what you're doing, mind, the ends can justify the means. My radio show is two hours on air each week. But to get to those two hours...
Log all the suggestions from listeners: 1 hour Download the songs: 1 hour Decide which songs to play: 2 hours Programme the running order: 1/2 hour Writing posts and general admin: 1/2 hour Editing the recorded show: 1/4 hour (if I haven't fucked anything up) Uploading to Mixcloud (inc. tagging, etc): 1/4 hour
So that's 5 1/2 hours without once hitting play in Mixxx.
And that doesn't include the hour my wife puts in to making each week's running order into a playlist on Apple and Spotify, and the artwork she makes for each episode.
I love doing my show, but yeah, a hell of a lot of work goes into those two hours.
It's not the same, likes cost nothing. Imagine going around and telling every poster you upvote "good comment, I like this".
That's a good comment. Genuinely I nodded reading it.
Solid comment, A++++, would read again.
Thank you very much I like your comment too.
15 likes doesn’t make you a loser, 1000 likes does
That sounds like a challenge. C’mon fellas, this cup size connoisseur thinks we can’t make them look bad with our upvotes!
*click* aaaaand three. Take THAT, oh ye of little faith!
It’s just the amount of effort to build an audience requires not having a life so well adjusted/normal people don’t get into it
Yeah, in reality you are totally right. On stuff like Reddit not only did I ignore scores or engagement indicators, but I almost never commented in the first place. On Lemmy not only is is nicer to comment and interact because of the audience, it is interesting to know that a couple people or a couple dozen people agreed/disagreed, or that it resonated with them, etc.
And you have to love how my suggestion got ZERO buy in around here.
Dude I get pumped for even a few upvotes here, especially if it's something I'm enthusiastic about. That shit goes far with me 😊 I love you dorks
Awww we love you too!
I admit I was tempted to ironically downvote you...
You silly goose! We love you too.
It's definitely quality over quantity here. Every upvote means a real human person saw my post/comment and liked it enough to upvote it. And I can even see who on Mbin!
Two people told me the salad I was making at the grocery store salad bar looked good. I was like damn. I’m really good at making salads.
Don't knock yourself down! I'm sure your glitter is great too!
Every Monday night I do a radio show. Most weeks I get about 15 people listening, and have had to work really hard to stay at a place where I'm happy that it's as many as that.
Time is fleeting, we don't get back what we've used, so it blows my mind that 15 people choose to spend two hours of their week listening to my bullshit. Sure, I'd like it to be more, but I'll take what I can get.
Every week you have 15 people sitting in a circle hanging on your every word for two whole hours. And they keep coming back. That’s a lot of good friends, man! If they were there in person we’d all wonder if you were a cult leader.
It isn't a cult, I just really like robes.
Plug your shit man. I'll be number 16 at least once.
OK!
Well, I'm live at https://stream.djdarren.site/ between 1900-2100 UK time every Monday, after which I upload it to Mixcloud.
Man here, I am still riding the following highs:
2 months ago, a cashier told me that my leather jacket was cool
~5 years ago, another cashier said she thought my outfit looked was nice
~7 years ago, a clerk at a deli told me that I had a nice voice
When i was working out people started complaining i was too buff, when i wasn't working out people complained i was too skinny.
When i'm fighting for my goals people complain i'm trying too hard and when i'm not they are complaining i need to do more.
It's never right with them...hold on to those compliments, they are few and far between.
I had a convo on instagram with some guy (who turned out to be some kind of coach for life goals or whatever) and he started praising me for recognizing a certain hardship and it turned me off from conversing with him...it made me physcially cringe hearing someone praise something i did.
I'm probably a little messed up lol
I bought a new hat about 5 years ago. In the first year, I had a young woman tell me she liked my hat (random passerby in a supermarket), but she giggled as she said it. I spent the next long while wondering if she was being genuine and she was just nervous about saying something, or if she was making fun of me and had said it ironically. (She was with someone else, so that seemed to make the latter more likely).
A few months ago, an elderly woman at the pharmacy told me she liked my hat, and that one I knew was genuine.
I haven't left the house without that hat since. Still riding that high, too.
In 2011, I worked at a company that was near a small local sandwich shop, and I'd go in there frequently for lunch. At one point, when I got back to the office, I found that they clerks had written in sharpie on the bag something to the effect of, "You're always so bright and cheery when you come in here, we love your attitude!" Made my year. I still have that bag in a box in the closet.
There was a lady who came in my store regularly. You could tell she put a lot of work into herself. I mean, it had to take her hours to get ready every morning.
She always seemed so sad. Not rude or anything, just depressed or something.
It took me more than a month to work up the courage to say it, but one day I got the guts and I said, “Hey, I’ve been wanting to say this to you but I know how men can be and I’ve stopped myself a hundred times. I’m not hitting on you, I’m married. I just have to tell you that you are one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen in my life and I just love the way you dress and do your makeup. You’re always a pleasant sight.”
I never seen that woman with a sad look on her face again.
Had another customer, very old lady. Very hateful. Always in a rush but doing everything so slow. One of the meanest looking people I’ve ever known. I didn’t see her smile for years. She was probably about 85 years old.
One day I said to her, “You know, you’re one of my absolute favorite customers. I’m always happy to see you coming.”
She looked up at me with that mean face and flashed a short smile. I had never seen her smile before that. She didn’t say anything, just smiled.
Every time she came in after that she’d be her usual mean looking self, but she’d always smile at me and then go right back to grumbling.
Come to any part of China that isnt Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen. You can be the most average looking American and even in the most scenic locations on the planet random folks will ask to take pictures with you or just of you and tell you youre beautiful.
Last week at work two different people walked by me at lunch and said “your sandwiches always look amazing” and I literally can’t shut up about that now.
Tell me everything about your amazing sandwiches
On Sara Lee Artisano bread, in this order: Yellow mustard Two slices of oven roasted turkey breast One slice of cheese (baby Swiss or Gouda) Another slice of turkey Another slice of cheese Green or red leaf lettuce A thick slice of beefsteak tomato Onion Mayo
I pack the lettuce tomato and onion in a separate zip top bag and add them to the sandwich right before eating it. Makes all the difference.
I randomly made this the first time I actually took my lunch to work and at the first bite was like “FUCK that’s a good sandwich” and I’ve taken the exact same thing every day for weeks now.
15? I'm happy to see 2-3. I'm happy all day when I see a positive reply to my comment.
I don't have to imagine. I'm sure almost 15 people have complimented my appearance over the course of my entire life.
Look at Mr George Clooney over here
If "social media" is telling you that, then stop seeing "social media". Only spend time with those that pump you up.
You are wonderful, just the way you are.
I once had 1500 upvotes on Reddit for something, don't even remember what. I'm a celebrity now.
I managed to get 1,200 upvotes here on Lemmy 2 years ago during the Reddit API fiasco on my old lemmy.world account so I'm a super star as well :3
I remember my first 500+ updoot post like it was yesterday:
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I think the reason why being complimented by strangers feels so nice is because it used to happen to you as a kid alllll the time. Happens to my kids all the time for dumb shit you’d never compliment an adult for. I bet people take that for granted when they are kids and only notice it’s missing when it stops happening to them as they get older.
