Social No Para: Conversations With CJ The X (Patreon)

TLDR: read the last paragraph

What should I post on Patreon? Behind the scenes videos? Exclusive livestreams? Bonus videos unavailable to the larger public?

Behind the scenes tamper with the audiences reckoning with the final product. Deleted scenes are deleted because the final product is better without them.

I’ve decided I like livestreaming and I’m good at it and it’s a viable source of income, but I am uncomfortable being required to do them by schedule and I am uncomfortable leaving hours of riffing and banter public in perpetuity to be dissected and held against me as though it were calculated performance.

I don’t do reviews, reactions, bite sized commentary. I don’t take requests. A bonus video would inevitably consume me into obsession with quality and passionate execution, at the end of which I would want as many people to have it as possible. I know I could make money through artificial scarcity by hiding things behind a paywall, but it’s messy, and I’d constantly impulsively leak my exclusive #content. It’s not me.

What should I post on Patreon? What’s the exciting version of this? Is there a part of me that is yet untapped that is appropriate to this medium?

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I fucking love interacting with fans. I simply think Twitter or the Youtube comment section is an insufficient manner in which to do it.

I’m also haunted when stopped on the street for a photo. God I wish I could do more, but all we have is one minute. It’s not your responsibility as an audience member to cross an unbridgeable divide in a minute. I wish I could do more.

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How about this?

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A show!

30 minute conversations with fans.

DM me on Patreon, tag your DM “Social No Para”. Tell me a couple sentences about yourself and tell me a couple sentences on something you would want to talk to me about.

Once a month I pick a conversation that seems productive. Once a month I have a productive conversation.

I record it, I whittle it down to its highlights. Once a month I share that conversation with the rest of Patreon.

Starting January 2022, continuing every month this year.

Social No Para: Conversations With CJ The X.

I can do this. This feels meaningful. This makes sense.

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ENUMERATING THINGS CLEARLY:

Any Patron of mine on patreon.com is welcome to Patreon DM me seeking to feature on Social No Para. Tell me who you are and what you want to talk about. I’ll sift through these and pick the one that vibes best that month, then will schedule the call, which will be about 30 min. The calls will be recorded and edited and published to Patreon.

I will also be responding to Patreon DMs in general more regularly, and there will continue to be sporadic moody prose drops.