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The ‘Truth About Social Media Presence
Confucious SunZoo
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INTRODUCTION:
STILL FAKING AFTER MAKING IT:
Social media is a fantasy world! The average person doesn’t want to know how fabricated and irrelevant social media presence is. How can a TikToker have 50M followers but can’t afford to paint the funky-looking baseboards of their house? One of the prerequisites for record label A&R to consider reviewing your material is having at least a 10K social media following. You can buy 10K followers. But even if you have 10K followers, only a tiny percentage of those ‘fans’ are paying customers.
What about those big names that brag about millions of followers? Math is math! Simple mathematics will prove that a fake social media presence, like boasting 17M to 100M followers, is hype. Record labels must cast the illusion that their artists are elite and above the plentiful nine-to-five social media “influencers.” Tired social media platforms like TikTok probably compel record labels to boost their artist’s social media presence.
The Math Doesn't Add Up!
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17.2M Followers17.2M Followers appears to be an impressive illusion. But something is amiss.
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17.2M Followers
Conversation: 1.6K
Retweets: 22.2k
Likes: 232.8K
People Who Saw But Didn't Interact: 7.3M -
17.2M Followers
Conversation: 1.4K
Retweets: 7k
Likes: 82K
People Who Saw But Didn't Interact: 6.7M -
17.2M Followers
Subscribers: 31.1M
Views: 15M
Likes: 558K
31.1M subscribers, yet only 558K liked Is There Somebody Else?
For example, how does the Weekend claim to have 31M YouTube subscribers and millions of video views? Yet, on average, The Weekend, and every other ‘superstar’ artist, has 350K to 3 Million video likes but boasts 31M YouTube channel subscribers. Do the math! If only 3M people like your videos, yet you claim to have 31M subscribers, the math is off!
Similarly, The Weekend claims 12.2M Twitter followers. But if you peep The Weekend’s Twitter feed, on average, there are between 100 to 3M retweets, replies, conversations, etc. So again, 3M is a far cry from the alleged 17.M following. That’s simple math!
Also, take a gander at the placid content superstar artists post on Twitter (ass, tits, ‘they kids”). Most household-name artists are burned out, trying to stay relevant because there’s very little ‘superstar’ about them. How can you boast 100M followers if your feed contains the same thing your followers have seen for five years or more?
THE CASE OF ELHAE: The Truth About Social Media Presence
I started listening to an Atlanta-based artist named Elhae in 2013. Elhae was hailed by many to be the next Drake. Rick Ross’ failed Maybach label signed Elhae, who worked with several mainstream artists and has a decent SoundCloud catalog (please see Elhae’s SoundCloud below). Elhae was also signed to Motown.
Yet, in 2013, Elhae had approximately 1.5k Facebook followers. By 2019, Elhae had around 65K Facebook followers. Finally, in 2022, Elhae had only amassed an additional 35K FB followers, and his Twitter following was just as impotent. Do you know why the industry stepped on Elhae? Because he would have been too much competition for Drake, who’s been irrelevant since 2017!
THE TRUFF HEARTZ:
But the first thing cheerleaders of played artists like Drake and The Weekend claim is that I’m “hate’n on their gods.” Please explain what there is to hate about TikTok-level Twitter celebrities like Drake. I can do much more than most superstars and Tik Tok celebs combined.
But you don’t see me bragging, showing “goad teef,” or pretending to be rolling in royalties (but busted for selling dope because of not making money from music)! NERP! But if I were a hater, would I even acknowledge Elhae, let alone put his SoundCloud feed on an FYOP Records Inc. post?
WHY BTG CAN'T USE SOCIAL MEDIA:
From experience, I say we’ll see how “great” social media stars aren’t when they do something against the powers who silence them with a frozen social media account. We can’t use social media because we’re politically persecuted and blackballed, and social media is corporate-controlled!
For Your Own Protection Records Inc. recording artists, BTG hasn’t been able to use Facebook since 2015. Moreover, The number of likes, etc., for BTG’s PYROHYDRO SoundCloud doesn’t reflect the crowd reviews and professional critiques we’ve paid for.
Click HERE to watch what happened when I tried to add BTG’s SoundCloud to this page. You’ll notice the other artists’ SoundCloud pages featured in this post rendered fine. Like all the other bureaucrat scum, SoundCloud will play dumb, hiding behind plausible deniability!
We’ll reveal how the FEDs, YouTube, and other corporate bullies work to silence and contain threats to the bureaucracy. The PYROHYDRO INCIDENT and TAXI MUSIC INCIDENT 1 & 2 perfectly demonstrate how corporations work concertedly to control the public and keep people in their places.
The same political capitalist bullies harassing BTG’s social media also interfere with their website. However, you have a bit more control when you own a website domain than using government and corporate-controlled social media!
SOCIAL MEDIA IS A CONTROLLED PLATFORM:
Our adversaries, the federal government working concertedly with the music industry, continue using underhanded methods, trying to snuff our belief in Heaven, self-confidence, and hope.
How many times have you struggled to gain impressive social media stats only to resign from overwhelming discouragement? The Powers, Princiapites, and Authorities manipulate our social media presence with the same intent.
Our political perscutors and every corporation, from Bluehost to WOW, have worked concertedly to try and contain and undermine every move we’ve made. Our Bluehost website was down from 2019 until June 2023. When we tried to move to WP Engine, the same harassment began (our site disappearing, server problems, etc.).
After BTG’s Facebook page was mysteriously frozen, we started to focus and rely upon our www.magiccmag.com site. We’ve paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for web hosting packages in the last fifteen years and have always been plagued by unexplained server issues.
In 2019, after ten years of maintaining www.magiccmag.com, and months before BTG ‘s original April 14th PYROHYDRO Starlight Music publicity campaign, our political perscutors froze www.magiccmag.com, forcing us to purchase a new domain, www.thatbdpfyop.com.
We’ll see how viral and influential social media stars are when the bureaucracy works concertedly to silence them. So, please spare me the All-America BS about how free America is and that capitalism is the greatest system on earth.
THE CASE OF WISH: Social Media Strikes Out Again
Another example of the industry snuffing out competition is the talented R&B singer WISH. I first heard about Wish in 2012 with her Me Against Her mixtape. I played Me Against Her and didn’t get tired of listening.
Wish reminds me of Mary J. Blige and Faith Evans. But when I checked Wish’s social media presence recently, the stats didn’t add up to her talent and commercialism. Wish’s management team is partly to blame. But Wish would have been too much competition for mainstream Pop R&B and R&B artists. According to SoundCloud, Wish only has 228 likes and only 28 reposts.
SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE DOESN'T MEAN BANK:
Social media presence doesn’t always equate to making bank! As Elhae’s case demonstrates, building substantial social media followers is often a fabrication and doesn’t reflect your income. Furthermore, social media blows up mediocre civilians’ egos, making them think they’re phenomenal.
So, those types of “social media stars” visit gifted one-percenter social media pages and automatically hate when they witness genuine talent. Finally, others might enjoy your music or presentation but decline to like or follow you to prevent expanding your ego.
Therefore, struggling artists shouldn’t let so-called stars’ boosted social media presence discourage them. Likewise, don’t equate success with a substantial social media following. Elhae didn’t have millions of people following him, yet he made plenty of money between 2014 and now. Large crowds might not fill your social media page, but they will buy your product! Supporters are diehard. Fans often ‘Tik’ today and ‘Tok’ with the next fad!
BIG TYME FAKING:
But TikTok is also saturated with fake follower stats. How do you have 64M Tik Tok followers and can’t afford to paint your house’s funky walls and baseboards? If you’re making so much bank from TikTok, WTF are you still doing in the ghetto, bullets flying around your ass while filming another generic TikTok video?
If I spent five years driving a Front Loader and playing with it during downtime, I could also learn to light and extinguish a match with a Front Loader, something else I saw on TikTok. TikTok celebs burn out quickly, trying to compete with themselves and others, just like VINE!
PAST THE OPTIMAL PRIME:
The “Weakend” recently released a remix of one of his songs, a duet with Ariana Grande. Why revive a song instead of creating new content? With seemingly boosted social media presence, how are superstar artists drawing millions of additional followers when they’re barely releasing new material, and their Twitter feeds are full of regurgitated, inept, and vapid content?
How often will you show your ass that everybody’s seen thousands of times? There are billions of asses in the world! Some asses are five-miles-long, and others are speed bumps. But they’re all asses! But what sets one ass apart from another? Oh! Even if your p—– could snort coke while molly-popping, it would get old! Social media’s thrill is gone and quite corporately controlled!
CONCLUSION:
But please ‘Balee me when I say IDGAF about divas, dicks, and degenerates. However, trying to act imperial because of boosted social media stats ain’t nothing to boast about! Moreover, IDGAF what “the internet thinks or is talking about!‘ IDGAF about obsessed and fanatical fans making death threats when people speak the “truff about “they gods,” either! There are practical ways to deal with that type of threat and menace!
If 100k or more people can do what you can, what’s so special about your act? One person on TikTok starts a unique and fabulous trend, while 100k generic copycats try to beat it (but can’t come up with anything original?). There should be some kind of infringement litigation against generic copycats who take your idea and try to compete. But that’s muggles for you!
Another problem with Social media is that there are so many generic haters who think they’re phenomenal. So, you’ll have 100k visitors or views with only 3K likes. A hater will visit your social media, like your music, but not give you a thumbs up “because they don’t want you to get the big head)!
The facts and the math prove social media gods and celebrities are mortal, with nothing phenomenal about them, doing anything to boost fake social media presences while hating on anything that resembles a legitimate phenomenon!
