SO, I'M BLOGGING NOW...
May 11, 2025 | 5:45 PM

Recently, I've come to a somewhat late realisation; I hate social media. I quit Instagram earlier this year because let's face it, it's a cesspit. It's like anonymity has sucked up every ounce of positivity in people, every comment section is just filled with the most heinous and degrading commentary. Remember when Instagram was just a photo-sharing platform and not a forum for homophobia, transphobia, racism and ablism; that was nice. And I hate how dependent I was on social media, like my brain had been hard-wired to doom scroll whenever I was in any close proximity to my phone. Like, what does it do for me? It's not like it made me happy, just overwhelmed.

So, why is any of this relevant? Well, If I want to grow as an artist, I have to promote myself. Unfortunately, Instagram happens to be the most convenient tool and it's what I've been using since I started college (about 5 years). But I feel like social media has shifted the way I create work. Each post I made didn't feel like promotion, more like a need for validation. And I think it made me lazier as an artist, like I couldn't be bothered make anything with the expectation of a post. And don't get me started on the algorithm and its preference of "Reels". Social media has made me feel uninspired as an artist, and having to conform to the algorithm's "game" is just tiring.

Blogging. I never really considered this as a form of promotion, but here we are. I feel like my presence on social media was very manufactured, like I wasn't truly myself. So, maybe this may work better for me. There has been a lot of work I would still like to talk about but I simply couldn't be bothered to post about. Like the work towards my final degree show; I am excited about the process, but very little of it has been documented. 

I'm going to treat this blog like a diary. A dysfunctional account of my ongoings and whereabouts.