Want To Gain Internet Fame? Mind These 7 Things
Gain internet fame is really easy nowadays. Everything can become viral in a matter of seconds, a little more intense than just gossip between our neighbors. Netizens can easily click the share button for every content they find interesting, especially on the social networks like Youtube and Instagram.
As a result, many people take advantage of this ‘opportunity’ to become famous, especially on the social media commonly referred to as celebgram, which may be short for celebrities of instagram. More and more netizens are having a desire to gain an internet fame by competing to create contents that they think is creative.
Not infrequently, I find a number of people who switched professions to become Youtubers, or celebrities, or virtual artists from their main jobs with their fix revenues.
Is being internet celebrity a bad thing? No, of course. It depends. But it would be nice for you to pay attention to several factors that I summarize into 7 things before choosing to search popularity in cyberspace.
It is not a real fame
By gaining internet fame, some people in the real world may recognize who you are, or even some of them will invite you to take a welfie like a real artist. Who does not want this to happen? We consider being an artist on television is not easy, but everyone can now create their own channel in internet.
But remember, we are nobody. People who might greet you might be just to say “hi”, those who become your followers are 90% likely you will not meet in the real world. Nothing suddenly makes you a Hollywood artist in a blink of an eye, or even the people prefer to be busy with their own jobs, leaving you confused about how to get more attention from their.
Intense competition
As a result of how easy it is today in creating content and media, everyone is competing to build their ‘brand’ on every platforms on the internet. Millions of people do not even realize that millions of them also participate in the same sector.
You want to be famous as a gamer? Remember that millions of people might think the same thing. Do you want to be famous as a photographer? Designer? Musician? The other millions are doing the same thing. What makes you special? What makes ‘fans’ would put you in their hearts?
Or you will be juxtaposed with 90% who failed, which has never been told by most of the media.
Haters
It is truly common that the more widely known a person is, the more the person hates him. The factors that cause a person becomes hater of you may vary from just envy, jealousy, pure dislike, or indeed they perceive something wrong from you. You will not be able to please everyone. But what can a haters do?
The smallest thing a haters do is mocking you in social media. And then some of them would like to look for your mistakes, or do some threats and terrors to you every day and night. At that time you will go awry and confused about how to respond to the haters because your fans will watch your attitude too.
Build the perception of the others
What happens when people upload their luxury holidays onto their social media? Amazed people might flood the comments section, both known and unknown netizens. Isn’t that a fun thing? Right, if indeed it matches your reality.
But don’t forget the perception that every viewer you built. They don’t want to know how you are in the real world, they only know that you are a lucky people where they can only watch it on social networks. The viewers might not believe or even care if one day you have the same complaints as most people, because the viewers might also be tired of their own problems until eventually the disrespect arises from the audience.
Privacy
Now it is a matter of how you respond and treat the fans. You might be ‘disturbed’ by fans at every opportunity, from requests to chat via private messages, asking for autographs, gathering, to the activities from sensitive fans that are very disturbing like stalking you on every platform on the internet.
Your time might be taken up with so many demands from fans so you should update your content very often. Just manage your time and your attitude as best as possible because the fans have different characteristics, which maybe if you don’t respond them in the middle of your deadline, they will likely become your haters instantly.
Media joke
Is it necessary to be proud if you are interviewed by the media, both local and offshore media? Certainly! But be careful not to make the wrong move because you already built up your image for years, while destroying it will be finished in minutes.
Your media is like two sides of a knife, which if you get the wrong side, then negative news about you will be able to spread throughout the world in seconds. Moreover, the media only prioritize their own content to gain profits via advertisements, after that they will look for another person as fillers of their empty content.
Going quickly
As I mentioned, millions of people are ready to become your competitors on the internet. No matter how great an artist is, the other artists will try to knock out the artist’s top position. Plus, people in cyberspace nowadays are very easily bored with millions of content with the extremely similar theme even from different creators.
Year after year, where did people that ever become viral and famous on the internet?
Now you know the risk, please go on your media carier with so many considerations to be the success one. 🙂