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If my head wasn't attached I'd forget it
Feb. 25th, 2025 10:03 pmYesterday it was the flash drive today it was my phone (on the charger) which means I can't get into my teaching software luckily I only need that to put in grades so the students had to wait until tonight for the test scores. They didn't do badly.
today was the soup potluck at work. My pasta fazool was a hit but only 2 of us remembered and the other soup was sausage/potato (one I don't like and the other I shouldn't eat) I sipped the broth of that. Not bad.
The nerve pain is better today, just a dull ache (getting worse as I type this) thanks for all the well wishes. I appreciate it. This is awful and because I forgot my phone I didn't get the scheduling call.
Fannish 50 this week is another why is fandom like this. Lately I've been seeing A L OT of content creators across multiple fandoms and some not-even-fandoms but they're creating for YouTube or TikTok (in my case it's either true crime, history or cooking). Several of them are railing back against people pushing them to create.
To be fair some of that is how YT and TT work. If you aren't constantly creating, you're demonetized and your channel is hidden or penalized. That is one helluva lot of pressure to produce and the fans take their cues for that.
What I see a lot of lately is fans pushing and pushing. The creator says stop asking, I have a day job, I'll get to it when I can. The fans don't stop and you get the creator saying ask one more time and I ain't doing it period and then fans jump in calling them mean etc. It's quite eye rolling. I will say the video and graphic artist who get hit with this more. Authors get a bit more leeway.
We also get the marching order type of fans. The fans tell YOU what you need to be creating. Not asking, flat out telling the artist what has to happen. We've already talked about how Maggie Stievater burned her series bible for the Raven boys due to this and ended any chance of future spin offs.
When I was writing Buffyverse in the early days of FFN I had two fans who constantly commented to my stories with marching order for what I needed to write next and what each character needed to be doing. It got to the point I'd wince when I'd see a comment from them.
This came to mind with this video (CW, graphic violence, blood)
I didn't look to see if the comment is still there but it was Oh I don't think Valentino is so bad. He wouldn't hurt Angel, he's damaged too, yadda yadda, I know Angel wouldn't hurt him back like this (obviously not watching the same source material as the rest of us because Val is canonically sexually, mentally and physically abusive on screen) That I could deal with but they actually said, see Val as I do and do a video bringing MY view of Valentino/Angel to life.
I saw that and thought, are you serious? You came in to tell them how they did their video wrong and expect them to redo it to make you happy? Who does this? I can't even imagine doing that to someone.
It's not a surprise that we're seeing content creators burning out especially on youtube and tiktok.
So again, be kind to your creatives. They're people too with lives of their own.
today was the soup potluck at work. My pasta fazool was a hit but only 2 of us remembered and the other soup was sausage/potato (one I don't like and the other I shouldn't eat) I sipped the broth of that. Not bad.
The nerve pain is better today, just a dull ache (getting worse as I type this) thanks for all the well wishes. I appreciate it. This is awful and because I forgot my phone I didn't get the scheduling call.
Fannish 50 this week is another why is fandom like this. Lately I've been seeing A L OT of content creators across multiple fandoms and some not-even-fandoms but they're creating for YouTube or TikTok (in my case it's either true crime, history or cooking). Several of them are railing back against people pushing them to create.
To be fair some of that is how YT and TT work. If you aren't constantly creating, you're demonetized and your channel is hidden or penalized. That is one helluva lot of pressure to produce and the fans take their cues for that.
What I see a lot of lately is fans pushing and pushing. The creator says stop asking, I have a day job, I'll get to it when I can. The fans don't stop and you get the creator saying ask one more time and I ain't doing it period and then fans jump in calling them mean etc. It's quite eye rolling. I will say the video and graphic artist who get hit with this more. Authors get a bit more leeway.
We also get the marching order type of fans. The fans tell YOU what you need to be creating. Not asking, flat out telling the artist what has to happen. We've already talked about how Maggie Stievater burned her series bible for the Raven boys due to this and ended any chance of future spin offs.
When I was writing Buffyverse in the early days of FFN I had two fans who constantly commented to my stories with marching order for what I needed to write next and what each character needed to be doing. It got to the point I'd wince when I'd see a comment from them.
This came to mind with this video (CW, graphic violence, blood)
I didn't look to see if the comment is still there but it was Oh I don't think Valentino is so bad. He wouldn't hurt Angel, he's damaged too, yadda yadda, I know Angel wouldn't hurt him back like this (obviously not watching the same source material as the rest of us because Val is canonically sexually, mentally and physically abusive on screen) That I could deal with but they actually said, see Val as I do and do a video bringing MY view of Valentino/Angel to life.
I saw that and thought, are you serious? You came in to tell them how they did their video wrong and expect them to redo it to make you happy? Who does this? I can't even imagine doing that to someone.
It's not a surprise that we're seeing content creators burning out especially on youtube and tiktok.
So again, be kind to your creatives. They're people too with lives of their own.
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