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contrarianarchonI just got two follows in rapid succession on bandcamp. I was not, I must say, aware that this was a thing that could happen. I wonder why?
(TBH still mildly in shock that there are people who are willing to read my blog here, let alone people who are willing to follow me for my ... good taste in music? What?)
On an unrelated note, I figured out to make good teriyaki! The secret is that the sauce is literally 1 cup of soy sauce and one cup of brown sugar and garlic!
(TBH still mildly in shock that there are people who are willing to read my blog here, let alone people who are willing to follow me for my ... good taste in music? What?)
On an unrelated note, I figured out to make good teriyaki! The secret is that the sauce is literally 1 cup of soy sauce and one cup of brown sugar and garlic!
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Date: 2019-07-11 02:26 pm (UTC)One time I got 500 followers on my (empty) Instagram in one day. I wonder if that one was a "here's a taste of our fake-followers-for-hire service, would you like to buy more?" If so, joke's on them: I myself was a fake follower for hire, just in a more boutique and freelance way.
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Teriyaki's too sweet for my taste, personally. Protein should not be sweet.
At the local Indian food store they sell jars of garlic-ginger paste, which has been very useful for our cooking endeavours.
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Date: 2019-07-12 06:14 am (UTC)(Both have primarily bought from the same artist, who I've never heard of, but who, on examination, is right up my ally, so the plot thickens.)
I would not be insulted by someone not caring for my taste in music - even if I somehow thought it was worth looking at, synthwave and gothic industrial are not for everyone, and that's a solid percentage of what I listen to, esp if you go by my bandcamp library, which is not representative. (Since piracy and physical media)
And I want to emphasize that I have no idea what these people are getting out of following me - I don't, like, generate content or anything, I just buy music, and then listen to it. I don't even listen to it on their app very often!
(Boutique and freelance follower-for-hire? That sure sounds like a thing. How did that work?)
Garlic-ginger paste sounds tremendously helpful - I can get garlic in my food in a number of ways, but ginger has been quite annoying to process. Previously, I used a micro-plane and frozen ginger, but I have neither a micro-plane nor a freezer now.
I will cop to being a big fan of sweet-sauced protein. This borders on being chicken jam, when it cools. It's wonderful - I just bought another packet of chicken thighs to make more. I think I will add some miso paste this time, and make miso-coleslaw to eat with it.
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Date: 2019-07-12 03:02 pm (UTC)Many people/companies with strong social-media presences (I mostly worked with romance novelists, fashion bloggers, and parenting bloggers) hold very nudge-winky ""giveaways"" in which one gains entries by interacting with their stuff. They *ideally* want people to be lured in by contests and then start genuinely reading their stuff, but given how many of them used things like "your message will go out to over X thousand Twitter followers!" as a selling point when trying to attract advertisers, I expect a lot of them would consider [anything that makes their apparent engagement numbers go up] to be helpful to their goals.
(Some of them have gotten caught playing the metrics: I was there when the book-stuffing scandal came out. I'd worked for book-stuffers (though not in that particular aspect; no Kindle Unlimited subscription), but hadn't previously realised that book-stuffing was a metric-playing tactic. I'd been *wondering* why so many books came with several of the author's previous works...)
Getting paid in raffle tickets is annoying, but if you do, say, 10 contests/day for a year, and each one has an expected value of a few cents (the market for freelance followers seemed to be mostly in equilibrium, with the number of competitors in a giveaway scaling linearly with the size of the prize), it can average out in the long term.
I did follows, likes, sometimes comments. Most of them give extra entries if you signal-boost them, but an account composed entirely of paid signal boosts is too obviously fake, and I didn't want to put in the amount of effort involved in constructing a persona who actively posted. I merely put a non-default icon on the accounts, plus profile notes that I was a lurker just there for the content aggregation.
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Looking back at my previous posts that touch on it, I can see I've been getting increasingly less vague about exactly what it was I was doing. Probably because I've stopped doing it: I left my dedicated newsletter email subscribed to the more useful sources just in case, but I don't seriously expect to return. I've burned myself out on menial Internet labour, especially the kinds that pay erratically. And I have more access to minimum wage now (when I started doing paid social-media engagement I was unemployed, and for a while I was working 3 - 6 hours/week; currently it's more like 10 - 20), making ~$1/hour relatively less appealing.
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Date: 2019-07-13 03:53 am (UTC)(I'm glad you were able/willing to talk about in detail, though)