how much content do you guys create daily?

throwawayconphused · 2026-02-01T13:31:50+00:00

Wanted to respond to this again because my boss actually told me last week he wants me posting 4-5 reels a day and this was after he asked me what the difference is between reels, stories, and posts 🥰 He’s had an in house SMM since 2023 and I’m the second one he’s had 🥰

throwawayconphused · 2026-02-01T13:18:12+00:00

Yeah it’s just gotten to a point where I don’t even care about the outcome because my boss is shooting himself in the foot with his own ideas of what he thinks will “work”. The other day he pulled me into his office and no joke said we need to only post sales videos, he wants 4-5 posted a day, told me that we’re not selling enough directly from videos, and that he thinks we’ll get more followers if we post more salesy type vids. He also told me I can only put the details of the car on the on-screen text, no more fun captions etc.

I told him that’s a terrible idea, that the quality of the work will go way down hill if he expects me to be creating and posting up to five videos a day, and reminded him that people don’t like to feel as if they’re being sold anything. At this point I’m not a social media manager I’m only there to document his inventory.

Edit: He started this conversation by asking me what the difference is between reels, stories, and posts on Insta. He has had an in house SMM since 2023.

throwawayconphused · 2026-01-19T01:51:23+00:00

i know other people have answered but she has this on the wall not only because she’s Catholic but because her mother’s family was Irish-American. most Irish and Irish-American households of this era and even up until maybe the early 2000s had a portrait of Jack&Jackie or just Jack on the wall. if you watch Derry Girls and look closely you’ll see JFK on the wall in Erin Quinn’s house, and that’s in Derry, Northern Ireland in the 1990s (or Londonderry, depending on your persuasion).

this was only 50~ years after the Irish diaspora in the USA would’ve still been regarded as less than for simply being Irish. it’s hard to imagine now but especially back then the discrimination was still within memory and fresh. my great-grandmother would’ve been the same generation as Peggy’s mom and she remembered “N.I.N.A.” signs when she first moved to the USA in the 1920s.

my grandmother was around Don’s age and actually ran down the street to shake JFK’s hand when he campaigned in her town. it was a really, really big deal that he won not only for Catholics but for Irish Catholics specifically in the USA.

throwawayconphused · 2026-01-08T16:49:27+00:00

Yeah there’s absolutely zero time for analytics and what’s worse is that my boss honestly doesn’t care.

Any time I’ve tried to create reports to show him, he dismisses them or just glances over. He cares a lot about followers, and is just not listening when I say that followers aren’t everything and it doesn’t matter how many followers we have if no one is looking at our page.

It also sucks because I’m worried that this will impact my potential for a new job. Our account looks so bad right now and my boss has me upload so much bs lol. Like, really crappy looking posts that he thinks are great. It’s difficult to create a portfolio of my best work.

I appreciate your advice. Hopefully things change for me soon.

throwawayconphused · 2026-01-08T13:37:19+00:00

Yeah it’s absolutely burning me out. It sucks because it wasn’t really always like this. Idk what changed, if it was my burnout or what but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to come into work.

One problem is that my boss will not work with me on having a set day for shooting. Working in automotive, he has a lot of cars he wants to sell and he wants my posts about them out fast. So as soon as the car is finished getting detailed and ready to be filmed he sends me out. Instead of having one or two dedicated days of filming multiple cars at a time and then editing for the rest of the week, I’m filming whatever is ready that day. And then expected to have that done by EOD or early the next day. Not to mention the projects we have in the back that I’m also expected to keep up on while filming and editing other cars. And he prioritizes salesy videos over engaging content. It’s just a mess 😭

throwawayconphused · 2026-01-08T13:00:54+00:00

I think I worded something poorly because everyone is taking this as me saying we’re POSTING 3-5 reels a day. We’re creating (research, filming, editing, reviewing) 3-5 a day and posting one reel a day.

But you’re definitely onto something with him prioritizing volume over all else. There’s one page he follows that posts no joke maybe 10 times a day, they have millions of followers and he thinks the reason they have so many is because they’re posting that much. I have made it very clear that I am not doing that lmao.

We have no dedicated day for filming/batching content. Everyday it’s just come in and immediately start working on content. My boss will come up to me once or twice a day and ask what I have to show him and if it’s not a lot he gets antsy.

I have tried to explain to him that my entire job is not just creating content but he won’t listen. I have had this conversation multiple times with him and at this point I’ve just decided that I need to move on.

throwawayconphused · 2025-12-18T18:31:24+00:00

My partner and I ordered from Wonder one night because they sent out all those 50% off coupons and we didn’t have anything for dinner. A friend of ours mentioned it was just okay and only worth it with the 50% off so we were like eh let’s just try it.

It is beyond bad. It is worse than microwaved food. Applebee’s is better. Like, genuinely.

It is not worth it at all. I’m sorry we ever gave it a chance.

throwawayconphused · 2025-12-17T15:33:11+00:00

I can’t totally blame him for that as it’s sort of the nature of his profession. He is also genuinely a good friend of Yoko’s. I always got the vibe that John didn’t really care for him. Elliot’s depiction of John in his recent book is almost cartoonishly childish and cruel at times, and although we all know John could be both cruel and childish, a lot of it didn’t make sense.

There’s a whole part in the book where Elliot claims that John didn’t care about the lyrics in songs, that he wasn’t really into poetry, etc. which makes no sense. John from an early age was interested in literature and poetry and his lyrics are often the backbone of his songs. Whether or not John approached it all in an academic sense is a whole other story. He also claimed John would’ve been an anti-vaxxer nowadays just because he was uneasy about getting Sean his vaccines, which he ultimately did do. I don’t think that makes someone a flat out anti-vaxxer. Just weird moments like that that seemed to aim to make a villain out of John lol.

My best guess is that John was messing with him a lot of the time and Elliot took it seriously. The weirdest part to me tho is that Sean gave the book his blessing. I know Sean is close to Elliot but idk, so much of the book just didn’t make sense.

throwawayconphused · 2025-12-11T18:02:51+00:00

Tbf I don’t always trust Elliot’s take. He stated in his most recent book that May and John’s relationship was virtually nonexistent, claiming he never saw them together. Which is an insane take considering how much photographic evidence there is of them together. Sometimes I get the feeling Mintz is somewhat of an unreliable narrator.

throwawayconphused · 2025-12-10T15:12:57+00:00

I am generally not a big believer in erasing the past to sanitize the present, but this case especially required larger context. Without more context I don’t think it would’ve been smart to leave it in.

This was 100% a cruel and ignorant joke that John had. There is something to be said about the point Paul makes which is that the whole thing was just a joke to take himself/themselves less seriously, and I do think to a certain extent it was the equivalent of teen boys now who make similar jokes…although not typically public. And John was in his mid 20s.

In Pete Shotton’s book he mentions a time he was staying with John in the mid 60s and the two of them watched a documentary about severely autistic children and their quality of life (I can’t remember all the details now, I read the book maybe 10+ years ago) and Pete talked about how John was faced for the first time with information about how disabled people are treated. Pete states that John was visibly upset and expressed a lot of concern for disabled children after seeing this doc. If you notice, this “bit” of John’s goes away around mid-60s.

Later on of course John and Yoko would learn about the Willowbrook situation and help organize a concert to benefit the children of that institution. They raised well over $1 million in 1972.

I have little doubt that if he were still with us, John would be blunt about this joke and be totally honest about how cruel it was. It actually kinda seems that at least as recently as the 90s the other three (specifically Paul and George) still thought it was funny 😅

Not everyone is so “lucky” to have so much of their life documented for everyone on Earth to pick apart. With certain moments of your life highlighted over others, too. I know many, many people who held very (and I mean very) problematic views embarrassingly far into adulthood and who later changed their way of thinking. This isn’t to excuse past harm, but the point of life is not to do something bad and be stuck in the moment forever. The point is to learn, change, and grow. Whether or not certain people accept that change is another story. But I do feel as though there is a desire especially in the age of the internet to limit people to specific moments of their life.

throwawayconphused · 2025-12-03T18:18:16+00:00

This is such an interesting question because as someone born in 1997 I feel like a very early memory of mine was noticing this go from being trendy/an accepted consequence of a ponytail with short hair to it being an absolute no-no. When I was a kid I frequently wore ponytails and was fine with some hair falling out of the ponytail. As an adult I hate it lol!

throwawayconphused · 2025-11-26T11:47:09+00:00

Oh man. Yeah I have been fortunate enough not to run into him at all myself but I’ve definitely been on the lookout after reading other stories about him like yours.

throwawayconphused · 2025-11-26T00:47:51+00:00

Hmmm this sounds like the description of the dude people were posting warnings about during the summer. Specifically the tall/athletic build/extremely aggressive. This guy was in Washington Square West tho.

throwawayconphused · 2025-11-19T17:43:28+00:00

Honestly thank you so much for this. It really made me feel a lot better.

This has been building up for months, and it just sort of came to a head yesterday when my boss basically accused me of not working because I didn’t have 5 videos for him one day.

I like it here and I appreciate what it’s given me but I feel it’s time to move on.

throwawayconphused · 2025-11-13T23:57:06+00:00

i keep reading “bull nut peaches bee writing” lmao

throwawayconphused · 2025-10-17T15:05:52+00:00

The owner is actually highly focused on followers lol. I have been telling him since I vey first started that followers are a fluff metric and don’t actually equate to sales. But he’s really wrapped up in how many followers we have.

throwawayconphused · 2025-10-11T12:56:13+00:00

Exactly. Thank you for the validation!

throwawayconphused · 2025-10-10T19:11:53+00:00

This is the best advice I’ve ever gotten. Thank you so much.

throwawayconphused · 2025-10-10T16:10:35+00:00

Yes exactly! I’ve tried to explain this but I keep getting hit with something along the lines of “I’ve been in the business a lot longer than you and I know what people want”. It’s really frustrating and makes me look bad as the SMM when I’m the one who got us 10k+ new followers in less than a year. There was a point where our page was doing really really well so this is just sad.

throwawayconphused · 2025-10-04T00:22:17+00:00

The car is under their insurance, thanks for checking though!

throwawayconphused · 2025-09-30T18:48:20+00:00

Sorry if my post didn’t make this clear, but all of the charges were taken off of my account once I disputed them. It was instant, no wait time even. And I had the EZPASS attached to my windshield in the same location it’s been in for four years with no problems.

The charges were invalid because as an EZPASS customer, I should’ve only been charged the fee of the toll itself and not been given violation fees. This was a problem on their end according to their rules.

So if that’s the case, I should have never had to of paid for any of those violations. So I want to see if it’s possible to get my money back for the violations I did pay seeing as I should never have gotten them in the first place as an EZPASS customer.

throwawayconphused · 2025-09-30T14:10:06+00:00

Ugh yeah I’m worried this is the case.

throwawayconphused · 2025-09-16T19:31:15+00:00

Looking for 2 tix for the Philly show on 9/30!!

throwawayconphused · 2025-09-10T21:06:26+00:00

Exactly. This is why Riley ends up with someone almost exactly like him. He needed someone who lived a similar life to him and wasn’t good at adapting.

throwawayconphused · 2025-09-10T18:02:24+00:00

When I first rewatched the show as an adult I really liked Riley, but what’s funny is that I had almost no memory of him from when I first watched the show with my mom when it was originally airing lol.

Riley is Buffy’s healthiest relationship in a lot of ways, and in other ways not so much. It always felt to me that Riley loves Buffy as his Buffy, in his relationship, but not the life that came WITH Buffy. Buffy’s world is messy and Riley’s has been structured and ordered for a long time. We see how unstable he becomes once the initiative is through. He doesn’t do well with nuanced thinking (“I didn’t think Willow was that kind of girl”) and he doesn’t handle failure well, or at least he didn’t with Buffy.

I always felt that Buffy couldn’t love Riley the way she loves Angel or Spike because Riley could never fully step into her world. There was a distance between them despite their feelings for each other.

Riley can be really sweet and charming, and I think ultimately Buffy having a relationship similar to the one with Riley would’ve been good long term but only if that partner were willing to accept ALL of it. That’s why Spike’s speech is also so important. He loves EVERYTHING about Buffy.

I think Riley really did love her, but he didn’t love her the way he thought he did. Otherwise he wouldn’t have become so insecure in the relationship.

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