I’m an unknown in the sphere of social media at this current moment. I’m literally building from the ground up. It’s HARD - because I’m fighting an uphill battle with a blindfold on, hopping on one leg with one hand tied behind my back – all to “prove a point” although, it’s equally an experiment as much as anything else.
To be honest, I’m not a complete nobody. I used to have a respectable following across several platforms. I posted “compliant” content to varying degrees of success and even unironically “supported the current thing” a few times. #facepalm
The point is – I understand how social media works. I understand how to “leverage it.” The irony in that statement is not lost on me. The very ways that we’re trained to think we’re leveraging social media are, in truth, an aspect of social conditioning that influences us to post certain things, tag certain people and comment on certain trends.
Brand is EVERYTHING. If you figure yours out, stay true to it and don’t deviate, you can build a following anywhere doing just about anything – as long as you use THEIR platforms, integrate THEIR tools and follow THEIR rules. But THEY aren’t “the Left.” And as we’ve had verified for us recently, THEY aren’t even “Capitalists” in the honest sense of the word. They are LITERAL fascists. Yes – the “real deal.”
Cue Antifa… only I’ve never seen Antifa stage a protest outside of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, IG, Reddit or the new ruler of the roost - TicTok… Those “Antifa” warriors wouldn’t know a fascist if it infiltrated their lives, tracked them everywhere they went, drew up detailed profiles of their consumption habits and behaviors and sold the information to foreign governments and retailers. They wouldn’t know a fascist if it censored their speech, trained them to think and behave in certain ways, radicalized them by pushing a consistent stream of media directly to them to support a specific set of beliefs and lied in their faces about it.
I see dead people. They don’t know they’re dead. They don’t realize they’ve been “hacked.” And I don’t know how to get through. All I know is that if I DID figure it out, the algorithm wouldn’t let me. I’m too low on the totem pole to build a following on the BIG platforms without following their rules to the letter of the law and getting Swalwelled up in the process… (That is to say – sell myself and my principles out for that sweet, sweet CCP-sanctioned influence.)
I was between a rock and a titanium place. If I really believed the “platforms” had become a detriment to society, I owed it to my principles to refrain from participating. No – I didn’t kick up a stir and get axed. I just left. For my “mental health.” To escape bearing daily witness of watching people I knew and loved getting bogged down and consumed by lies, panic, fear and fascist BS. To avoid getting consumed myself.
So when a friend approached me a couple years ago and expressed her desire to build an online business using blogging and an online store, I told her about the approach I knew that worked. But we both lamented over the “necessary evil” of “leveraging” social media to build her business. As her launch got closer and closer, I began to wonder if someone COULD build a company, a brand, a name without the exposure that you get from YouTube, IG, TicTo(xic) and Facebook. So while she planned and prepared and launched, I started throwing pasta at the wall. I migrated from YouTube to Rumble. I started dabbling in Locals and Substack. And finally, I signed up for Truth Social. (I WAS trying to build myself on Parler but we all KNOW what happened to them… Bezos – I’m looking at YOU to go on Rogan next to admit the Feds made you shut Parler down. Wait for it…)
So that’s it. Rumble. Substack. Locals (kinda?) and Truth Social. I’m testing the waters to see if someone can really get started only using alternative media. You see, everyone who is “huge” on Rumble (take Crowder or Jimmy Dore live streams for example) has or at least had exponentially more followers on YouTube and the other massive platforms.
So can a Florida girl who REFUSES to leverage her old life, her old brand and her ‘compliant’ past build a new following???
Time will tell. But as long as we continue to bitch about the censorship, manipulation, shadow banning, social engineering, data harvesting and selling, only to continue to bring more sheep into the fold, we’re living a lie.
Sure, we can say how much “better” it is on the other platforms, but we generally continue to use them like a “side-chick.”
“Oh, I looooove you Rumble. You have so much content that they don’t allow on YouTube anymore. You let me post comments that YouTube censors, and I can even share spicy videos. Where did I spend the last two hours? Um – well… Let’s not talk about that. Why don’t you show me some of those sweet, sweet “Truther” vids that YouTube banned. Delete my account??? But – I mean, why would I do that? Of course, I think you’re special, but I’ve been on YouTube for YEARS. I mean, I can’t just throw away all those subscriptions and… don’t cry Rumble. I’m here now – aren’t I?”
I know the song and dance because I too spend way too much time with the “ex” who isn’t REALLY an ex at all. But what I can honestly say to Rumble is “My future is with you, baby. I’m only posting new content and trying to build new followers on YOU. You’re the one I want to build my tomorrows with…”
Whether I succeed or fail, it’ll be good to know that for at least some small part of my life, I stood in my values and TRIED.
So maybe you can help a girl out. Maybe YOU can help promote my content and together we can see if someone CAN build something right here – in Alternative Media Land without the baggage of past platforms. And in return, I promise to give you – nothin’ but the Truth ;)
I have a friend like that too! Starting a business is hard enough without having to play games!
Yay for truth! Yay for freedom the 1st Ammendment, and the whole U.S. Constitution that the woke mob are bent on eradicating!