why im pretentious
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i dont want to play the game. i dont want to be a part of the souldraining whirlpool of slop - i opt out. everyone else in ottawa is doing it, and it hasn’t worked for any of them, so why would I keep doing something that doesn't work? 

its not even about popularity - i cant think of a single ottawa band that has been influential in a genre or a scene. we can try and carve out our own special little area without getting fucked up the ass left right and center, by venues, by promoters, by streaming services, by the general public, we can make something nice without being exploited relentlessly and spit right out. go ahead, make zuckerberg 5 dollars in ads and fade into obscurity for the rest of your life if you want to. 

people will only see your stuff if you post it on social media? yeah, they'll see it between ten videos of people getting hit by cars in a drooling haze of fog and misery. you might as well flash the old testament to a toddler watching cocomelon and ask them to start praying. if something goes on social media, its dead. its part of the corpsecart, part of the endless wagon of content and stimulation, and the promise of authentic experiences a few weeks from now will NEVER compete with instant gratification as far as the eye can see. if you want to advertise an authentic experience, you cant do it in an inauthentic environment. go up and walk up to people with flyers, put shitty posters on bus stations, tell your friends, draw it with chalk on the pavement on campus, do something that will catch peoples eyes in real life and not on the internet. 

also a websites cooler than an instagram page

