Koala

6mo

Right haha I’d be happy if any of these teams win. Just gimme some good games

Noir

6mo

A late night personal post/rant:

It's 2026 and I've decided I want to unplug and find inner peace this year, more than anything else I could achieve.

I think a lot of us have reached a similar impasse with social media being increasingly toxic and depressing. Doomscrolling doesn't hit the same anymore, with the results revealing how harmful and dehumanizing it can be. AI is only accelerating that process. It's made every type of media feel more hollow than ever before. For me, this has been especially true with music.

My last couple years have been spent trying to find a small foothold in music with my band Escape From L.A. I had a few minor successes. We put out our album and the reviews were extremely positive. I mean, hell, a Mexican punk magazine called one of our singles a classic Our third-ever show was to over 100 people and I made fast friends with a promoter who helped us get another couple gigs where we've picked up a great reputation for our live shows. We also filmed our first big budget video - it's still in the editing phase.

All told, for our first full year as a band, it wasn't bad. In fact, it was pretty impressive.

Regardless, we have barely any monthly listeners and no traction on social media. I don't know how this will improve, because I have zero interest in making those numbers increase on my own. I've never liked the social media game; in fact, it's the one thing I really hate about what I do. I love writing, rehearsing, recording and collaborating on music, but I don't give a s*** about promotion. We have live performances sitting on a hard drive and I don't give af about cutting them up and having 20 people see them on IG or TikTok.

So, I'm at a crossroads right now. We have a music video dropping and we're starting work on album #2, which needs to be done by June. Both me and my drummer might be moving from LA to Chicago for personal and career reasons and we're going to have to rebuild the band when we do. Gigs are on hold to focus on the album. I have no idea what the future holds.

But it occurred to me tonight, deep in shower thought: I might be more OK having a really low key music career than I thought I was. It would be cool to be a studio guy who produces and records music for myself and, and I can do that at any age, but living on my socials to make my s*** pop off...at almost 35? I'm over it. I hate it. I even felt flat the day after our huge Whisky a Go Go show because I was ashamed for not promoting it more on my socials. It's f***ing stupid.

The main point I'm trying to get across: comparison is the thief of joy. I feel like the gap between what I've actually accomplished and how I feel about those accomplishments is a lot wider than it should be. If I focused less on raw numbers and how they compare to others, and more on the direct feedback on I've received from people about my art, I would feel so much better about everything. But it's hard to do that being terminally online.

Iridescent

6mo

I think you should just keep playing shows and making music bro. Do what you’re passionate about and love doing and the rest will follow.

Noir

6mo

Thank you. I'm sure I will. I can't not make music. I've tried and just ended up back in the game years later. It's what I was raised to do and I love every second of performing and writing music. A lot of people in music, even extremely successful ones, don't really love it like that.

Don't let anything steal your joy. There's not a lot of it out there, so take it where you can get it.

Iridescent

6mo

I think you should just keep playing shows and making music bro. Do what you’re passionate about and love doing and the rest will follow.

Noir

6mo

A late night personal post/rant:

It's 2026 and I've decided I want to unplug and find inner peace this year, more than anything else I could achieve.

I think a lot of us have reached a similar impasse with social media being increasingly toxic and depressing. Doomscrolling doesn't hit the same anymore, with the results revealing how harmful and dehumanizing it can be. AI is only accelerating that process. It's made every type of media feel more hollow than ever before. For me, this has been especially true with music.

My last couple years have been spent trying to find a small foothold in music with my band Escape From L.A. I had a few minor successes. We put out our album and the reviews were extremely positive. I mean, hell, a Mexican punk magazine called one of our singles a classic Our third-ever show was to over 100 people and I made fast friends with a promoter who helped us get another couple gigs where we've picked up a great reputation for our live shows. We also filmed our first big budget video - it's still in the editing phase.

All told, for our first full year as a band, it wasn't bad. In fact, it was pretty impressive.

Regardless, we have barely any monthly listeners and no traction on social media. I don't know how this will improve, because I have zero interest in making those numbers increase on my own. I've never liked the social media game; in fact, it's the one thing I really hate about what I do. I love writing, rehearsing, recording and collaborating on music, but I don't give a s*** about promotion. We have live performances sitting on a hard drive and I don't give af about cutting them up and having 20 people see them on IG or TikTok.

So, I'm at a crossroads right now. We have a music video dropping and we're starting work on album #2, which needs to be done by June. Both me and my drummer might be moving from LA to Chicago for personal and career reasons and we're going to have to rebuild the band when we do. Gigs are on hold to focus on the album. I have no idea what the future holds.

But it occurred to me tonight, deep in shower thought: I might be more OK having a really low key music career than I thought I was. It would be cool to be a studio guy who produces and records music for myself and, and I can do that at any age, but living on my socials to make my s*** pop off...at almost 35? I'm over it. I hate it. I even felt flat the day after our huge Whisky a Go Go show because I was ashamed for not promoting it more on my socials. It's f***ing stupid.

The main point I'm trying to get across: comparison is the thief of joy. I feel like the gap between what I've actually accomplished and how I feel about those accomplishments is a lot wider than it should be. If I focused less on raw numbers and how they compare to others, and more on the direct feedback on I've received from people about my art, I would feel so much better about everything. But it's hard to do that being terminally online.

Galaxy de list mon

6mo

and i've only received 2 lists so far but if you need inspiration, this will always be here to view: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bzqMOsDFYVXbfudUswQaRu7zCWvmcHD5xU2_bZMVxNs/edit?usp=sharing

@Aruji
@Bazooe /////
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@Bizzle
@Bourbon_Ben \\\
@branmalt
@demo
@drjdeponytail
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@Fella

lucid

6mo

whats the minimum again

Koala

6mo

@drjdeponytail @Bizzle

Nabbed a nice haul from a B&N closing up my way, everything 50% off. Not bad at all

Elric

6mo

Did you already catch a ban

Elric

6mo

Did you already catch a ban

rvi

6mo

mr yeezy gets a new account and returns to muteworthy posting habits, never seen that happen before

Elric

6mo

I wonder what thread he was yapping in

Koala

6mo

@drjdeponytail @Bizzle

Nabbed a nice haul from a B&N closing up my way, everything 50% off. Not bad at all

drjdeponytail

6mo

That This is Not Miami cover

Iridescent

6mo

I feel I’ve heard musicians (including some big ones) talk about the stress of “blowing up” and getting engagement and generally what I feel I’ve seen is them saying things benefited their career a lot more once they focused on their love of music and stopped getting so stressed out about marketing or “getting their music out there”.

S*** even someone as massive as Future at one point decided to stop making studio albums and just put out free mixtapes online and that boosted his career so hard

rvi

6mo

mr yeezy gets a new account and returns to muteworthy posting habits, never seen that happen before

Elric

6mo

did @RASIE just catch a ban

https://www.ktt2.com/nicki-minaj-joins-charlie-kirks-widowed-superstar-wife-erica-32594579/17#post-55242934

v003

6mo

this why the site a graveyard now man tf rasie a ktt1 legend