If watching a lot of SunnyV2 videos has taught me anything, it’s that sudden fame usually is followed by a sudden downfall. If you’re lucky, you simply wither away due to irrelevance, but in other cases; the downfall may be due to controversy. From a lot of the fallen creators, I deduct that there are a few points that usually lead to the beginning of the end, namely:
Narcissism; and the main character syndrome
Lust; the use of fame as a tool and lure to take advantage of women (also men and minors in some cases, e.g., James Charles 2021, EDP445 2022, etc.)
Corporatization; sinking in sponsorships and thus altering their style to fit company expectations to the point where personal authenticity and relatability (something they were originally liked for) completely disappear.
Drama; engaging in conflicts with other prominent creators.
Being a cleanup hobbyist first and a content creator second, I’m not really bothered by sub par performance online. I don’t mind climbing steadily or even stagnating in online engagement for some periods of time. My measure for improvement is from the numbers of KG of plastics I add to my cleanup record and the number of pullups I can do in a day, both numbers that are uninfluenced by outside factors.
I post on social media to entertain my future self with the memories of days past; which looking back to my old videos from highschool days makes me appreciate my journey and all the new things I have now that I could’ve only wished for back then, while also reminiscing the things from the past that I no longer have, with an aura of historic romanticism.
Another reason I post is to reach people who are like minded, which lets be honest, is a rarity to find in Indonesia. Therefore, the number of followers should not be the measure of success here, since most people out there aren’t the type of people that I’d want to be around in real life.
Anecdotally, I always find that bilingual Indonesian-English speakers tend to be of higher level education. Some also just happen to be privileged, nevertheless are generally more open-minded due to their media access being international. My sense is that English speakers in an eastern conservative country tend to have a broad and rich spectrum of ideological tolerance, due to their native majority being anti-west, all while being able to understand first hand the vibe of the west itself through social media. It's a lot more likely to find people who think globally by engaging in English.
In an ideal world, the only things I’d have are a solosan logbook filled with all of my mission logs, my house fully geared and ready to go for a cleanup mission 24/7, and I can interact and gather with people of my frequency at will. These are the things I aim to achieve.
Therefore in my case, the proper attitude towards fame is to just pretend nothing has changed, because as a matter of fact, nothing, absolutely nothing has changed. The only change that matters is the number of KG I picked up.
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