
Strawberry Singh, who became the SL community's top social media influencer and then went on to work for Linden Lab in 2019, has a new post celebrating her 15 years in the virtual world. It includes a surprising confession -- she almost quit SL entirely, mainly due to the tedium of posting credits to her avatar fashion reviews:
I had been feeling like the creative light Second Life had always been for me was diminishing because I was getting bogged down with doing mesh head reviews. I have to be honest with you, I absolutely hated doing those videos. I had come to a point where I loathed all the time I was putting into reviewing things and sharing style credits and not being able to just be more creative and have the time to do fun things in Second Life.
"Writing out style credits for every single item I was wearing in each post was a lot of work back then," she tells me. "I had so many blogs just saved as drafts at a time and I couldn't publish them until I took at least 30 minutes to sit there and write out all the style credits. It was time-consuming, exhausting, and not fun at all." (She hastens to add that she's still glad she made those reviews: "[A]s much as I was tired of it at the end, I know how important those videos were and many people have reached out to me and said that they learned a lot from [them].")
This is actually a common theme in SL social media, and a recurring complaint that comes up when Cajsa writes about Second Life fashion blogs -- either the creator credits are non-existent, incomplete, or not informative enough for readers to know where they might buy those listen items. It's the blessing and curse of a virtual world where everything is user-generated: If you're really trying to give credits to every creator whose work is depicted in a screenshot, it's a painstaking process where you will need to credit the creator of everything in view, up to and including the literal sky.
That to one side, Strawberry has ideas for how the community could inject more fun into the social media ecosystem of SL:
Comparing the BTC Apple to the L$ Orange (Comment of the Week)
Reader Joey1058 has a fair point about my comparing the oranges of Linden Dollars to the apples of Bitcoin:
This is roughly right. Though overall, I'd still say L$ and BTC is a comparison of tangerines and oranges, i.e. citrus fruit with more overlap than apples:
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Posted on Monday, May 16, 2022 at 02:02 PM in Bitcoin, Comment of the Week, Economics of SL | Permalink | Comments (1)
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