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diff --git a/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md b/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md index 4136d05..17c7d49 100644 --- a/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md @@ -1,17 +1,16 @@ --- title: "I want to be famous but I hate my fans" -slug: i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:47.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:47.000Z draft: false excerpt: "There is a contradiction at the center of this project that I have never resolved, and I am not sure I want to. I want SLIST to be the most … Read more" categories: - - { name: BTS, slug: bts } + - BTS tags: - - { name: community, slug: community } - - { name: format-long-form, slug: format-long-form } - - { name: identity, slug: identity } - - { name: tone-raw, slug: tone-raw } + - community + - format-long-form + - identity + - tone-raw featured: src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/cover.png alt: "Mirror reflecting duality of isolation and crowd, fame paradox concept"content: rewrite image URLs from slist.net/wp-content to cdn.slist.net/posts/<slug>/
diff --git a/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md b/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md index a57bc9f..4136d05 100644 --- a/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags: - { name: identity, slug: identity } - { name: tone-raw, slug: tone-raw } featured: - src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d2a734ada623.15309340.png + src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/cover.png alt: "Mirror reflecting duality of isolation and crowd, fame paradox concept" legacy_wp_id: 16106 ---fix(web): point upload URLs at slist.net (cdn.slist.net not wired up yet)
diff --git a/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md b/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md index 32e496a..a57bc9f 100644 --- a/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags: - { name: identity, slug: identity } - { name: tone-raw, slug: tone-raw } featured: - src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2a734ada623.15309340.png + src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d2a734ada623.15309340.png alt: "Mirror reflecting duality of isolation and crowd, fame paradox concept" legacy_wp_id: 16106 ---feat(web): visually mirror slist.net blog (index + single post)
diff --git a/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md b/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md index 9ed2465..32e496a 100644 --- a/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md @@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ slug: i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:47.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:47.000Z draft: false +excerpt: "There is a contradiction at the center of this project that I have never resolved, and I am not sure I want to. I want SLIST to be the most … Read more" +categories: + - { name: BTS, slug: bts } +tags: + - { name: community, slug: community } + - { name: format-long-form, slug: format-long-form } + - { name: identity, slug: identity } + - { name: tone-raw, slug: tone-raw } +featured: + src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2a734ada623.15309340.png + alt: "Mirror reflecting duality of isolation and crowd, fame paradox concept" legacy_wp_id: 16106 --- There is a contradiction at the center of this project that I have never resolved, and I am not sure I want to.feat(web): full posts+pages sync, browseable UI, curated pages allowlist
diff --git a/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md b/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ed2465 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2026/i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +title: "I want to be famous but I hate my fans" +slug: i-want-to-be-famous-but-i-hate-my-fans +pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:47.000Z +updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:47.000Z +draft: false +legacy_wp_id: 16106 +--- +There is a contradiction at the center of this project that I have never resolved, and I am not sure I want to. + +I want SLIST to be the most recognized dark music brand in New York. I want the events packed. I want the name on everyone’s lips. I want the inbound emails from booking agents and venue GMs and journalists. I want the scale. + +And I also started DJing specifically so I could avoid socializing while still being in social environments. + +## The introversion workaround + +SLIST as a system exists because I could not do what most promoters do naturally. Being social in person. Networking in the local language (in CDMX, my Spanish was mediocre at best). Working the room. Shaking hands. Making small talk at 4am while someone is telling you about their DJ career for the third time that month. + +The Instagram account was a proxy for social capital. It opened doors that being social in person could not. Every system I built — the flyer-sharing funnel, the guest list exchange, the commission codes, the SMS blasts — is an introvert’s answer to a problem that extroverts solve by showing up and talking. + +The operator mindset emerged from constraint, not ambition. I did not dream of building a rave empire. I wanted to get on guest lists in Mexico City and could not network my way onto them because I stuck out as a tourist who could not speak the language fluently. So I built a platform that made the guest lists come to me. + +## The fame wound +Diff truncated (54 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
