Hehe I kinda like this.
People are very used to seeing short-attention-span success stories. And budding creators are often very self-conscious because of that expectation.
The stuff in the middle before people even notice the work sometimes comes across as “cringe”, and I think being afraid to cross that barrier stops a lot of people from improving or sharing themselves with the world.
Sometimes you gotta be willing to take that walk so that you earn the privilege of being able to turn around and laugh at the lessons learned later on…
I dunno am I missing the point? Lol
This. One thing I couldn’t stand about Reddit was seeing people who have so little going on in their lives that they thought it worthwhile to “background check” other posters.
This was a big thing with Twitter too. “Oh, they follow such-and-such in their list of 10,000 follows, who turned out to be bad in recent news, so this person’s views are worthless and they must also be bad!”
Like, being able to have a quick glance and be like "Ah this is clearly a bot / hate-troll / what-haves, can be handy for some sense of accountability, but purity-testing and association-mobs are the stuff of cautionary science fiction, and should be avoided.