Community Is a Sales Funnel But Also Maybe ok

As I do about once a week, it seems I’ve been looking into new things, new ways to work on my music and to get it out there, and to make more music, and generally to keep writing all the time and composing. So what this inevitably leads to is finding a couple good people on YouTube, and they always have what they like to call communities, which is a super fancy word for sales funnel. I think they’re really good intentioned. Yes, they’re teachers, yes, they’re this and that, but it is kind of the modern kind of—so it’s their version of the shitty app subscription model. I’m not saying they’re all useless. I’m not saying they’re not worth it, because they can be cheap and you can get what you need out of them, but there are those people that exist within these communities that seem to only exist in that community, and they kind of start to get their own pecking order, and kind of the group think is led by these very nerdy folks, and it turns into them kind of maybe swinging their meats…