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> It's an impossibly imposed elitist standard on someone who is unknown to get to the point where word of mouth sustains them. It's a very Marie Antoinette atti
by rikroots 4y ago
> It's an impossibly imposed elitist standard on someone who is unknown to get to the point where word of mouth sustains them. It's a very Marie Antoinette attitude. No one reaches that level without self promoting as well, they just secretly use veiled methods like botting, the buddy system, and paid advertising to get there.
Perhaps for many, or even most. All I can say is I've never resorted (secretly or otherwise) to the veiled methods suggested. Equally, none of my books have appeared on the NYT bestsellers list, or earned me a Pulitzer, so my word-of-mouth anecdote has clearly failed if the aim of the endeavour is fame&fortune/etc. Which, for me, it isn't.
- winternett 4y agoI can understand your account because the publications industry is foreign to me mostly... Possibly perhaps people who read dig more deeply for new publications? The experience, methods, and landscape greatly varies for each sort of content being promoted, yet social media only presents one particular success script for everyone, and I think that's a huge problem. I produce music, and it's a wasteland of major labels being featured while independent labels struggle over table scraps... heh... Quite a different playing field to most others, but also similar in many ways. The common thread is usually that big business and popular people are more often than not the only ones featured on the front page, and it's a very long, hard and winding road to get to limited placement spots there.