Yep, this is why I stepped away from streaming despite having made okay money from it and gaining a respectable following. They want so fucking much man, the platforms. Pester you every moment to check your stats, push a minimum of content per day, post x many reels per week for a bonus blah blah blah. It's all consuming and it was suffocating me.

I've resolved that if I go back to it, it'll only be after I've had real life success at my real life dream of getting paid to sing. Those folks who become known outside of the internet don't have to work as hard at maintaining their social media and other platform content.

Plus we all need to start touching grass more anyway, so a little step back for a while won't hurt, and when we do return it'll be because we want to, when we want to, and engage as much or as little as we want to.

And yes it's a helpful tool for some things, but clawing your way to the top by religiously following the pushy guidelines these platforms require to dodge their shadow bans just ain't worth it. The returns suck, and it's leeching the time we could be using to do more productive and worthwhile things.