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I have begun the process of leaving huge social media platforms such as Intsagram and TikTok and replacing them with smaller platforms. I was tired of the censorship and toxicity happening on these bigger platforms. I was thinking about doing this for a while. What really gave me the push to actually go through it was TikTok selling out to a US company. I'll still have my accounts up and scroll, I just won't be actively posting.

The first one to go was Twitter and tbh it's been a minute since I got rid of it. And I do mean got rid of it, I deleted my account and deleted the app off my phone. Ever since it got bought up by Stinkrat it's become a cesspool of toxicity and porn. Tbf I never really used it anymore so it was best to just fully delete it. Anyway, I replaced it with Bluesky. I have to remember to post more frequently, though. Maybe I should start looking up some ice breakers, but I don't know it sounds like I may be trying to engagement farm or whatever if I do that.

Currently, I'm replacing Instagram with an app called UpScrolled. The amount of people allowed to get away with queerphobia, especially transphobia, on that app is unacceptable. Ntm, I don't think they really know their own guidelines. Not too long ago, a goth creator jokingly made an OF for their car (a hearse) and Instagram banned them. Yet, OF has an account and there are tons of sex workers showing themselves on that app. Let me be perfectly clear, I don't have anything against sex workers, get your bag, just don't promote their work on app crawling with unmonitored kids. UpScrolled, currently, has an influx of sex workers promoting themselves (but it's more like something you would see on Twitter, like full on nudity), but the creator is super active on the app and they are doing something to get rid of them. My posts do get a good amount of engagement but it's still slow growing.

Next, Lemon8 will be replaced by two apps: Reinbow and Flashes. If you didn't know Lemon8 is owned by ByteDance, the same company that owns TikTok and CapCut, so any censorship happening on TikTok will happen on Lemon8. Reinbow is an alternative for TikTok but I'll be using as it as an alt for Lemon8. I used to post book-ish content on Lemon8 but that will switch over to Reinbow, along with doing live readings of banned books. With Flashes, it's Bluesky's version of Instagram. I also used to post my artwork on Lemon8 but that will, eventually, switch over to Flashes. Flashes is currently out only for iPhone but it's in beta testing for Android. I'm hoping it comes out on Android soon.

That leaves TikTok. TikTok will be replaced by Skylight and 3Five. Each one will host a different series I'm planning. I currently have a name and some characters planned for one of them: The Real Alts of Salt Lake. I don't know if I'll have this one 3Five or Skylight, yet. The other one I haven't really started planning, yet, but I do have an idea for it that I've had for months now.

Anyway, the only large platform I'll still be using is YouTube. It'll mostly be used to promote my other platforms, except for 3Five and Skylight. Those two will be used for trailers and such to promote the full episodes being posted on their own YouTube channels. I don't know if I'll ever return to the other platforms. A lot of things will have to change in order for me to even consider going back. Let me know how you feel about what's going on the larger social media platforms and if you would like to know more about either of these series let me know and I just make a couple journal entries explaining them.

I have something to ask to all of you. I am currently planning out a scripted series for social media. It's a "reality" series called The Real Alts of Salt Lake (reality tv is a huge guilty pleasure of mine). I'm currently planning out the characters but I'm stuck on the goth character(s). I don't know if I want to do the wide range of goth subgenres (trad, vampire, gothabilly, etc.) or take the lazy route and just do one generic "goth" character. So I ask you all, would you rather see all different goth subgenres or one generic character? I won't be doing pastel, cabaret, gothic lolita or fetish goth subgenres as I'm not comfortable doing those myself but I'll probably do this as a collab with other creators. Bare in mind some of these genres probably won't be shown for a bit since it will take time to acquire the clothes needed but they will be shown eventually. Anywho, let me know!