This is such a good essay. I have a bunch of bands I adore that have less than a thousand monthly listeners and their music is always somewhere in between profoundly brilliant and too personal to be relatable, and therein lies the zone of the unprofitable. Either way, their work is inspiring. long live amateurism!!
casually saunters back in with a gigantic essay
also hot damn, we zoomed past 10000 views at some point and that's a bit of a silly number
This is such a good essay. I have a bunch of bands I adore that have less than a thousand monthly listeners and their music is always somewhere in between profoundly brilliant and too personal to be relatable, and therein lies the zone of the unprofitable. Either way, their work is inspiring. long live amateurism!!
@lupinus fucking amen. also, the unprofitable zone is a great name for something, maybe a band?
Great essay, thanks for writing it.
thank you!