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we're trying :(

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oh amazing incredible. @support why you do this

I've had a couple of posts get legs in the last year and I have to ask, is there any way at all to mute activity on a specific post? I don't want to be getting updates every time someone reblogs a certain post for the rest of time, and I'm missing comments and reblogs on posts I care about because of it @support

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aaaaah see I have all notifications turned off forever, but reblogs and stuff still turn up in my activity feed

I've had a couple of posts get legs in the last year and I have to ask, is there any way at all to mute activity on a specific post? I don't want to be getting updates every time someone reblogs a certain post for the rest of time, and I'm missing comments and reblogs on posts I care about because of it @support

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maybe it's just a desktop thing??

I've had a couple of posts get legs in the last year and I have to ask, is there any way at all to mute activity on a specific post? I don't want to be getting updates every time someone reblogs a certain post for the rest of time, and I'm missing comments and reblogs on posts I care about because of it @support

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I've had a couple of posts get legs in the last year and I have to ask, is there any way at all to mute activity on a specific post? I don't want to be getting updates every time someone reblogs a certain post for the rest of time, and I'm missing comments and reblogs on posts I care about because of it @support

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yep. i've had massive dips and boosts to my listenership that objectively weren't the result of anything i was doing right or wrong because i wasn't releasing new work at the time, and the temptation to turn into a dancing pigeon in the face of Numbers Go Up is intense

you have to stay detached from The Numbers as best you can or you risk going insane whenever the tide goes in and out for reasons beyond your ken

Small artists you need to understand that when you see an artist who you think has 'made it' tells you not to worry about the numbers and to not fret about getting more likes than reblogs they are not telling you it because they think you are stupid for caring or because they dont need to network to survive they are very likely telling you that because they have witnessed first hand the way the numbers game tears people to shreds in terms of mental health and motivation

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this is my favourite of all time. IT TOOK SIXTEEM PEOPLE TO WRITE TIMBER BY PITBULL

S I X T E E N

you can't convince me this isn't a scam

i'm showing my ignorance and how unconnected i am to the industry here, but i wish i understood how this works. seven writers and five producers on one song???

like that can't be right. it can't be. it has to be grift of sorts surely. or at best a case of non-writers/producers requesting to be paid in the form of writing/producer royalties rather than the less lucrative options

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i'm showing my ignorance and how unconnected i am to the industry here, but i wish i understood how this works. seven writers and five producers on one song???

like that can't be right. it can't be. it has to be grift of sorts surely. or at best a case of non-writers/producers requesting to be paid in the form of writing/producer royalties rather than the less lucrative options

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okay i feel bad now. it's not a good album but y'all tearing all the lyrics apart are crazy. if artists aren't allowed to acknowledge the toxic parts of being a human then hahahaha oh no i'm in danger

in line with the trends, i'm going to release a bad two hour album that could have been a passable 35 minute album

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yay

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get affectionately yelled at by the scottish person 💜

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i got out of bed with my large squishy emotional support seal, and i dragged myself to the spare room which gets a little more sun than my bedroom, and resumed my sleeping plans in there

someone should invent a form of staying in bed and napping all day that also lets me go out for a nice walk in the sunshine

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Matt can you confirm tumblr is better than instagram my friend doesn’t believe me but he’ll trust you

i miss twitter :( i never should have publically threatened to guillotine that australian billionaire

but also yeah tumblr is good. too many pictures on instagram. i just want to see people be weird af and not know what they look like

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I am so sorry, I was editing the ask and it sent on accident. Please disregard that ramble, TLDR here:

Do you feel that it's possible to be friends with someone who started off simply as a fan of your work and you? Or does the fact that they started as a fan have a large impact on the dynamic, therefore making an actual friendship impossible?

iiiittttt's possible but unlikely

there are a small handful of people i've become friends with who were fans first, largely because they are chill and cool. and also because it felt like they didn't super want to be my friend or need any validation from me. i'm very easy to scare off

i'm a cat. if someone really wants to be my friend, and this is true even in non-fan interactions, then i tend to run for the hills. if someone acts like they don't really care either way i'm more likely to be like "hey what's this person's deal"

anyway. the safe and simple answer is no. the complicated answer is yes very rarely.

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I hope this question has not been asked yet, but why is a lowercase i used in tracks like i think i'm going to leave my phone at home?

multiple choice

1. I wanted to make it more eye catching on streaming sites

2. Long titles look weird with capitalisation

3. A secret third thing I was trying to do and have since forgotten what it was

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when you write music do you tend to have the words first or the melody? when does the storyline or theme tend to become apparent to you?

neither, the caffeine comes first, then i black out and come to with a song