Deontay Kyle (22:42)
Just on my video grape. You know what I'm saying? Just on my video when I get canceled so I can get their money. Cool, cool, cool. I'll do it. Now, what that does is open up the door for further censorship. Right. And further puts pressure on us to find loopholes in language around guidelines. Right? Now, though, what Jimmy Kimmel said wasn't crazy, and though I believe that his show will be reinstated, though all of the politicians sent out that scripted tweet that there is no room for political violence in our society. We have seen some of them push back. We've seen Gavin Newsom say that he's pushing a bill that you cannot be unidentified if you are an ice agent. They have to show their face when they're going out in these places. And we seen Jasmine Crockett propose a bill saying that the president can't have reach that infringes on people's free speech in the public or private sector. Right. I think it's just in public media. So with this Jimmy Kimmel thing, and this is something I want to talk about on our live show, I want to talk about the importance of independent media. If you are a tiktoker, an Instagrammer, a YouTuber and you have takes, if your, if your content is about current social, historical, political events, you should have your own website with its own domain and you should have a substack attached to that website. If you're not going to have a substack attached to that website, have a column on that website where you can print out your own articles and media, you are just as much of a. If Charlie Kirk, if Charlie Kirk is a politician and his death is real political violence, then if you have been making content on social issues for more than six months, you are now a journalist, okay? And you should treat it as journalism. Right now there are many ways you could charge for your substacks. Just charge a dollar, you know, I'm saying charge for your substacks. Have some simple, simple merch. If that is the case, if funding is a problem, right? But there is going to be a need for independent and unbiased media. Now a lot of times anything critical of the right is going to come from the left. But a lot of times citizens are not going to be as unbiased to things that are happening and being enforced by Republicans because they fall on the left. But we are going to see a lot of criticism about the right from the right as well. Just like we see criticism about the left from the left. And that binary system is just the system that we live under. I am still not a huge fan of the two party system because I don't believe it's a two party system. I believe it's two people in one trench coat calling themselves the government. So the, the importance of independent media is unless these niggas have make my on YouTube, take my page down, I can say whatever the fuck I want because I own this shit. I own my domain, website name, I own my. I don't own substack. But I can print, I can publish articles via substack. There's ways for you to get your message out. You're gonna have to integrate your audience. If you have been on Tick Tock for more than one year and you have substantial following of 85k or better and you have not started to integrate your audience off of there, you are playing a losing game. We're not getting money on Tick Tock like that no more. There's been there. They have clearly been bought out. The algorithm is completely different than what it used to be though. You see signs of it being more. It's basically just ads and bullshit. Now is the ad of this doom scrolling 101 and then when something major happens in American news it is floods the feed which means that it's owned probably by American corporation that wants to push a right wing agenda or a biased left agenda. So the importance of independent media and my call to action for all my content creators is don't just have your content live on these social media websites. I think YouTube is long standing insecure for long term media. I think, I don't even think it costs $10 a month to buy a domain. We're going to have to start utilizing websites again outside of just social media apps there is pro. We probably use less than 1% of websites that are available to us because we're on these apps all day and we get all of our information from these apps. We scroll these apps all day, we post all of our content on these apps where you can have your own domain and repurpose this content on your own domain and even have website exclusive content that's not available where if you know when in wrong bro, you don't got to break the rules all the time. You know what I'm saying? You don't got to buck the system all the time. If you want to keep your page and you notice that they're cracking down on people and taking people's page away from talking about things. But you still want your, you still want your message to get out there. Do it underneath your own domain. That way you can still have the reach that you want to have while playing the game. Because you ain't. It ain't gonna hurt nobody but you to but the system. Because if you don't amass 200,000 followers and they side delete your page, you knew you was playing with fire from the beginning. So there has to be some personal responsibility. We don't own these apps. And when you don't own things, you don't get to dictate the rules and regulations that they play by. Now, if you were to integrate your audience and just in most times, integration is only 10 people. I mean 10%. So if you have a following of 200,000, you can guarantee that, what, 2,000 or 2,000 people will follow you to the next spot you go to. That's not a bad following. That's not a bad place to start. Okay, you was at 2000 on TikTok or Instagram once upon a time too. So I would say because Instagram doesn't pay, they let you get away with saying a lot more because the incentive of payment is on tick tock. It's a little tighter over there. And, and they, and they've taken down the payment significantly. I ain't gonna hold you. Every month. I was guaranteed to do 45 to 4500 to 2000. Now I'm lucky. No, 4500 to 5000. I'm lucky if I crack 1500 now.
