white rice is just naked brown rice, stripped of its nutrients
most healthy egos understand that "the clown" is the egomaniac who wants to be the center of attention, like, ALL THE TIME, &so, it's interesting to have chosen "the clown" as your persona, but don't worry, you've all assured us that with this attention, you'll be a "good clown," the type that cares about all of the "friends" you made while you were a starving wannabe-famous content creator.
grow the fuck up.
okay, fine, we all donate $25K to struggling music "artists," &then what? what about the struggling visual "artists" or struggling dance "artists"?
okay, &then what?
you seem to think that you live in a world that you do not live in, &or you think that we should all be living in some world of your imagination, but you've imagined nothing beyond that which is self-serving.
it's one thing to want change; it's a whole other thing ... to create it.
&like The brilliant Hollywood Reporter writer wrote, you're a dime a dozen; you fundamentally do not-understand the world in which you live; you fall into the camp of those who simply want to be seen as change-makers (how can you change a structure you do not understand?) as opposed to being change-makers. you're cosplaying activism.
you are the embodiment of the antithesis of what we're striving for here ... as artists.
"esse quam videri"
like, first&foremost, you fundamentally do not understand that you are not an artist; you are a clown, figuratively, a content creator. you make things to attract the attention of others. you're not creative or clever or eccentric; you're a clown, literally. you're literally dressed up like a clown. through your sheer pursuit of being accepted into the industry, i.e. commercialized, you are a sell-out, a content creator, the opposite of an artist, like, fucking-duh.
&what you want is for there to be some sort of support mechanism for wannabe-famous content creators?
&what you want is for that thing to be "free money"?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
THERE IS A SUPPORT MECHANISM FOR ARTISTS ON THE RISE;
it's called a JOB!
some jobs, believe it or not, actually provide healthcare, btw.
there is no "right" to be paid for your content; that's absolutely absurd. if you do get paid, great! if not, your rights are not being "taken away;" you are not a victim nor are you a catalyst. *iroll*
"But I just want my art to be my job!"
THEN YOU'RE NOT MAKING ART ANYMORE, MORON!
[begin side note]
i've been seeing a lot of social media posts lately from wannabe influencers who are striking a line like, "I told my followers to give me $3 or unfollow me. 80,000 people unfollowed," but how much money did you get?, and "Why are you following me without paying for my content? I post [free] videos all day long, but nobody pays me for them, and nobody buys my services," and "My business is going to close if people don't support my business."
first off, just like right off the bat, why do you think that you're entitled to be paid for content you post, for free, on the internet? this is just like so fucking confusing to me. i honestly cannot embody the mind-state required for this conclusion. if what you want is for your social media to be income-producing channels for capitalism, then you have to play by the rules of capitalism, and currently, these days, capitalism-as-usual on social media is being driven by an algorithm, gAI. thus, if you do not play by the gAI game, you will not win. if you don't know how to play the gAI game, you will not win.
the "content creators" out there who think that they can some how make "art" and get noticed are kidding themselves. like i said, chappell took on the persona of a literal clown. in the "look-at-me" game, the fucking clown is always going to win, but like i also said, the clown requires an EGO of ungodly proportion, as we're witnessing IN REAL TIME, in the whitest of houses.
second, i've spent a lot of money on a lot of [race-redacted] women on the internet. i've bought products, and i've bought services, and i've even just given straight-up cash. &honestly, i just haven't wanted to spend my money again for the same products &or services. i'm the toughest of consumers. &i have a budget. i would love to fold a [race-redacted]-owned product into my budget, but so far, i haven't found one i'd repeat-buy, Laurence Basse, the only one of the lot who had the good sense to "like" all of the posts i posted, for free, to promote her products on socials, excepted; i am already a repeat customer of hers, because i like her stuff, but the vast majority of her products are still #goals.
that's capitalism.
&so, yea, i fully understand why all of these types of people loathe capitalism-as-usual so so much. trust me, i fucking get it. what you want is some parasitic fund that shells out cash to you for posting a post to social media, no matter the quality of the content. you want to create some sort of Union wherein you, like a parasite, suck money from those who generate capital so that you can be given those funds, like a parasite. you want to be financially supported because you want to be famous?
that's insane.
like, you're proving that you know so little about money that nobody should even listen to you. you haven't thought of any solutions; your solution is CHARITY. you want to live off charitable donations? businesses fail every single day. bad businesses abound. bad music abounds. you cannot assume that your very first business is going to take off. you can't assume that your first song is going to take off. you can't even assume that, when you do make it as some "influencer" or "music artist," you will be able to be an "influencer" or a "music artist" for your entire working life.
what's next? when you've phased out, you're going to complain that your music isn't making you any money anymore, &so, you're going to want us to give you money because you were famous? oh my fucking god. like, seriously?
PARASITE!
like, get it through your fucking heads. this is not a world wherein you're just given money, because you want it. if that's your approach to life, you're playing the lottery. you're not working hard, you're gambling.
third, i paid an aspiring influencer back in late 2023 to participate in a survey about financial literacy. we(the bodybuddy/lifemate&i)'ve learned that people do not like to talk about money, &so some poor people remain poor simply because they are unwilling to talk about money, &there's really no way to learn about money except through talking about it with someone who does know about money, but i also understand how risky it can be to talk to someone about money, especially if you fall into a group of historically, economically disenfranchised people, etc., and that's why we've learned that the best way to talk to people about money is by simply making available a set of questions.
people seem more willing to teach themselves about money, but again, if you're poor, how do you even know what the questions are? &so, i essentially paid an aspiring influencer to participate in the questionnaire. i never even see the answers to the questions. their responses are not for me to then assess. the questions are for them to assess their own situations, &then, if they have any questions, i am available to them if they want my input, etc. the thing is, though, that the money also requires their active participation. i ask that after they complete the questionnaire for themselves they contact me to be surveyed about generalizations regarding the questionnaire. i do not ask specifics (like an income range), but rather, i ask more about how the person might feel about their income range, etc., &this person has yet to fulfill the survey portion of the questionnaire, &it is early 2025. not that i'm still open to receiving their survey responses, i'm not. i would be, but then they went on some rant about how they can see how some people used to interact with them, and now they don't. as if they didn't initiate the lack of interaction. as if they are owed something. bitch, i'm not white. bark up a different tree.
[end side note]
my point is that hoops are proving to be quite the hurdle among these types, &hoops are impossible for the majority of gen-z. they don't want hoops; they want free money.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA! &they wonder why generation after generation of immigrants come through here and scoop up positions of power! BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
like, what fucking planet did you grow up on?
but with an EGO as seriously fucking enormous as yours, i imagine that it was difficult to be dropped by your label, because you thought you were some pretty hot shit until you got dropped, &the thought of you having to go out there and get some job AFTER being signed to a label is just, like, not gonna cut it for that EGO of yours *barf*
like, seriously, you fall into the cohort who thinks that the people who rise to the top didn't work their asses off to get there. sure, nepo-babies exist, &yea, they're soft as fuck (never sweat a nepo-baby, they never survive more than about two generations, if that), but everyone else, especially women (even nepo-baby women), worked their fucking asses off to get where they are, you better fucking believe.
the most ironic part is that YOU represent the person who did nothing to get to the top. you, literally, dressed up like The Clown, got everyone's attention, &then started saying even more attention-getting things, &now, while bringing ZERO SOLUTIONS to the table, you're so upset that nobody supported you.
&so, when you go up onto a stage and declare that when you were young, you decided that you would be a "good god" &that you'd stick up for the little people once you were "above us," just like fucking listen to yourself.
you're all EGO, kid.