Fascinating case study in this comment from Alazarin Mobius, responding to my observation that Second Life has largely become a social media experience:
I am one of 'those people' who live stream videos from SL to YouTube & Facebook. I shall explain. I am a musician who performs original live music in SL... something I've been doing for 12 years. Unlike most SL live music performers, my stuff is quite niche and falls way outside of the comfort zone of most SL'ers who are looking for the next diva, DJ, singer-songwriter or karaoke singer. I get a few people who turn up at random, see a bunch of anthro avatars on a stage playing prog rock in an otherwise empty venue and immediately teleport out. Such is life :-\
I have tried and failed for over 10 years to get potential listeners to come to my shows in SL. So I decided to take my SL shows to where I actually have a few regular listeners: Facebook and YouTube and it works. So now I do my shows in SL and live stream them to where I have an audience.
If that's doing SL 'wrong', I'm way past caring. It works for me.
I'm surprised we don't see many SL performers following this lizard's lead -- most YouTube streams related to Second Life are around fashion, but surely live music shows (especially in crowded sims) would do well to get a social media stream going too.
Speaking of which, here's a recent Alazarin show, which as he suggests is pretty niche; but if you like, say, Yes and King Crimson in their prime and just wish it had a little more lizard, you've come to the right place:
Woo! I made it to New World Notes :)
Posted by: Alazarin Mobius | Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 12:17 PM