Yeah! So as you may have noticed (… you probably haven’t) I have been slacking with my posts as of late. Slacking as in they are non existent.
I’ve been posting and sharing my style, inspirations, all around taste here for 3-5 years now, I’ve lost count a long time ago. I didn’t start Proprpostur having the intentions of being “famous”, “popular”, or “cool”. It was and still is just a gateway to just share stuff I like. That’s just pretty much it, no more no less. But I guess that’s the generic answer that all “bloggers” give off right?
I was never a fan of being referred to as a “blogger”, but I guess I have no one else to blame but myself for that. Putting myself out there the way I have done over the years, but in my mind it was never looked at as blogging really. I also feel I was never really transparent enough through my blog. But all in all I have never been much of a transparent person. I tend to stick to myself and keep a tight circle of hoodlums around me who I love to death since they have to deal with my weekly bottled up rants.
I’ll let a bit of this frustration glow for a moment!
Reasons why I hate being looked as a blogger :
• A large majority of brands do not have a genuine respect towards bloggers.
• Strangers/brands always feel like they can email you and get content, work, etc for free…or well in exchange for clothing. Without even considering building a relationship with the blogger.
• The line “we don’t have enough money in our budget, but we can give you loads of exposure”. But then drops $1000 bucks on a sleeve tattoo just to flex on Instagram.
• Oh and this line “Blog this”….NAH BRAH! I’m not a walking billboard!
• People feel as if they can’t interact with you on a normal basis. I mean as in cannot hold a regular conversation, as if we are robots and we don’t get turnt up once in awhile. Not everything has to be about how many hits my blog gets (which I don’t even look at anymore). Who are my favorite designers, or how I dress myself.
• PR AGENCIES WHO DO NOT DO THEIR HOMEWORK BEFORE EMAILING YOU!! NO I WILL NOT WRITE ABOUT THE NEW TOYOTA VEHICLE OR PAMPERS FOR TODDLERS!!!!
With building Proprpostur I have attracted a great amount of following / readers, that I am grateful for. But at the same time bewildered and humbled that people actually find things I may post interesting and take a liking to it.
But now I’m at the point in my life where I’m asking myself “What’s next ?“. Sure blogging has opened a great amount of doors for me and has somewhat set me a kind of a direction I would like to pursue. But still….what’s next? We can all wear all the fancy clothes we want, look all pretty in pictures hell maybe even get invited to a few private events and get free clothing here and there. But when the smoke clears, who are you?, what are you made of? what can you do?, what do you believe? These are all questions we will have to ask ourselves (bloggers). I have been working on unfolding my own answers to these questions for the past year or two now.
I’ve been getting myself out there more into the real world and not sticking to my Internet guns. There is so much to explore and to experience that the Internet just cant compare. By doing so I have a picked up a lot of great opportunities that I cannot share just yet since I’m still piecing everything together. But you’ll know soon enough. Stop hiding behind your computer and get something.
There has always been this image bloggers give off (not intentionally) of being scary, too serious, vain, etc. But to the contrary, I’m a 25 year old aspired art director who is socially awkward and shy. Do you have a friend who sometimes just blurts things out loud but didn’t mean to and didn’t think any one would hear??? That’s me. I’m not serious really, more like scared of life & frantic to know what I will be doing with my life 5 years down the line just like every other normal kid in their 20’s. So I feel like I have to make every single day count for something. Oh yeah and I curse uncontrollably.
To brands we appear to be snobby brats who can’t do shit for themselves, who can’t get a real job, do not know the meaning of hard work, and who want free shit all the time. Is it true? Most definitely and I agree 100%, is every blogger like that? No, but the majority yes.
This is where I would go into “Paying your dues” but I shall save that for another post in the near future.
So in conclusion to this long overdue rant of confused frustrations, I will continue to post here. Without getting lost along the way, which I can admit that I have on many occasions. A lot of times I look through my page and feel it is not completely authentic to who I am as if I hold back too much. Proprpostur started off as a style site, but from between when I started up to today I have grown tremendously and grab inspiration and ideologies from various artistic standpoints. So it’s only right that Proprpostur reflects that.
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