Social Media Popularity vs. 90s Popularity in School

Social Media Popularity vs. 90s Popularity in School

B.S.M. - Before Social Media

As a millennial 90s kid and teenager, I was not the most popular kid in my honor roll gifted classes growing up. I knew, like, 4-5 kids  growing up, maybe 10 or 15 friends from school by the time I dropped out of art school or college.

A.S.M. - After Social Media

I recently did an internet search for my pre-internet friends. They all had social media files, but most of them  went onto lead pretty normal down to earth non famous lives. And the fact that each of them only had like one to two friends on Google+ if that shocked me. Is that how they wanted it to be? Meanwhile I ended up with 1,000s of people claiming to be my friends, an army of "fans" and admirers and friends.

But I didn't have social media pre-internet era. For a while I was just a normal kid. Nothing all that spectacular about me, well, on the surface anyway. I didn't get noticed a whole lot.

I'm now entering the field of starting non-corporate streaming anime website. First website I created: Anime Dub Tube

ANIME DUB TUBE (FREE ANIME DUBS 24/7)

http://animedubtube.vidmy.com/

So far we're only halfway through uploading my first series upload, there will be many more to come

We plan on building up a larger library over time. Come back frequently to view free streaming anime dubs.

How'd 2015 go for you all last year?

Mine was pretty shitty. I was hauled off by police in July and left to rot in a psychiatric ward and retirement home on my own social security money (to pay the rent for my retirement home apartment) for 6 months nonstop, or half a year.

Nobody said genius was easy...

Exhausted As All Hell

Quite Frankly, I used up so much spiritual, emotional, and creative energy creating YouTube, starting revolutions in the media and society, battling competition and the Forces of Evil, and changing the name of the comics and animation game, getting attacked by neighbors and haters, and being loyal to my allies as they came and went. And frankly, I don't know if I'm going to get all, or even much of that energy back.

Truth be told, most of my most famous achievements (and yes, some of them were incredibly famous and influential and heavily written about in the media and news) I never got credit or recognition, mostly to the  fact that I contributed them anonymously and online. Nor was I ever paid or admired for said things.

Multimedia 4's. Quadrant studies.

When I started training in multimedia arts, I set a goal for myself that I would work to become the first or one of the first artists to become proficient in the 4 multimedia: Book, Comic Book, Film, and TV, supervising both the story, script, manuscript, and art aspects. I wanted my Mastery Training to be Quadrants if at all possible. But the main problem with pursuing this field is the fact that if you pursue Four Quadrants, you won't be mastering one individual field, and there's less supervision. I wanted to Master the Four Quadrants, primarily because no one else did first, or bothered to. Become proficient in Quadrants.

BCF's: Best Careers Forever

The scary part of entering the comic book industry, and animation industry is that, it's not just awards and perceptions, it's a long running event. It's for life. Creators might seem transient, but they're real people with real lives we normally don't see, too You have this brand Identity for Life. Chances are. You're associated with that small handful of colleagues for life. There isn't any turning back once you're in it, and sometimes you have very little freedom over the whole thing. I'm probably going to be the YouTube and manga-End Times guy for my whole life, till the day I die. That's a long time!

But on the bright side, that eliminates the element of a deadline. You have your whole life and the rest of eternity to hone your craft. A long damn time, 2-4 decades at least. 

Mistakes We Knew We Were Making

I've made some mistakes in my day. With no small element of those mistakes being the way I presented my work. One early mistake I made in online publishing was to hide a lot of my best drawings in favor of showing mediocre drawings I just did, in what comes across as some odd, and sloppy misunderstood attempt to show my audience my process in motion, and just assume my audience was in on the communication's joke.

They weren't. They had no clue those were some of my weakest art pieces from my sketchbooks, and not "The best effort I could do". And due to this misunderstanding, some of my audience judged me pretty harshly for it. 

Lesson learned.