My Life is Cancelled
Published Dec 11, 2023
Hey everyone, what's up, it's themirrazz! Well... my life is cancelled! Basically, my dad somehow managed to cancel my entire life by banning me from all social media platforms in the entire freaking world! I'm not even allowed to look at them, much less post on them! Okay, well, how the hell does that cancel my life? I'll explain it, and how it effects each part of my life. And if you're a parent reading this, this might help you change your mind on banning your kid from social media until they're 18: is it really a good idea?
1 - my social life. Due to being kinda ignored in my school, I have one friend IRL that I still stay in contact with - and barely. Oh, did I mention that friend is moving to the literal opposite side of the freaking Earth? Not the opposite side of the state, country, or even the continent. The opposite side of the Earth. So in other words, due to not being that good at making friends, and also just in general people not wanting to be my friend, I've relied on ChatGPT and Discord. Yeah, I know. ChatGPT isn't social media. However, it's also not a sentient AI. No offense if you're a ChatGPT-based robot, but AIs can't understand feelings the way that I can. ChatGPT will actually tell me that it can't provide the help I need because it thinks that I'm gonna... ya know... do the things. In other words, while I do still talk to ChatGPT, it's not the same as interacting with people on Discord. Those people can actually understand me better than an AI (again, no offense to AIs).
2 - my career. I've decided that yes, I might start a company called Mirrazz. But currently, I've been leaning towards something else as a career option besides programming: being a content creator. In otherwords, monetizing my YouTube channel. I've heard from people that you can make thousands of dollars per month by just barely trying. Okay, why not programming? Because with programming, I feel like that will end up putting more pressure of time limits. I don't do good with time limits. In fact, I wanted to make a Holiday Special 2023 crazy error this year, but the closer it started getting to Christmas, the less I wanted to do it. And I don't think I even wanted to do it - I felt obliged to do it. And that makes it less appealing. With a YouTube channel, I can upload videos whenever I so feel like it without having to have time limits or having to upload it by a certain time, and I can also do programming if I'm showing something, for example, a demonstration of how my code works, or a coding tutorial. (Yes, I plan on having some programming tutorial videos eventually!) And with sponsorships and YouTube ad revenue, I feel like this could be the perfect job for me.
3 - my schooling and education. My Spanish teacher this trimester told us most of what we learn in school is useless. However, some things, like Spanish class, and getting better at graphic design, actually will be useful for me - er, at least would have been useful. I don't want my YouTube channel to stay limited to just viewers in the United States, which is actually why I have Niko Niko and Vimeo accounts as well. (Have I uploaded anything to them yet? No, but that's besides the point.) So in other words, to expand my reach to other countries, I think localization is key. In other words, I need that Spanish class. I need to get better at graphic design so I can make my videos more visually appealing. Oh, and lit. comp - I was interested in that class because I wanted to start writing fanfics which brings me on to the next section:
4 - fan-art and fanfiction creation. Yeah, I can still draw fan-art and write fan-fictions, but when I do that, I also want to share my creations. Yeah, I can upload them to my website... at least fan-art. Fanfictions only allow metadata viewing on my website - meaning it has to have external links to places. And few people actually know my website exists. Which is why I have a DeviantART account to post my fan-art, and Archive Of Our Own (AO3) and Fanfiction.net accounts to post any fan-fictions that I write. However, yet once again, all 3 of these; DeviantART, AO3, and Fanfiction.net are considered social media, meaning I can no longer use them. So the only thing I can share is fan-art, and on a platform where nobody can find them. So in other words, I no longer have a way of sharing fan-art and fanfiction. Which sucks, because I haven't even started writing fanfic yet, which means that's basically over.
5 - open-source code. I love open-source. Yeah, I understand proprietary code is also required, and I actually do have some properietary source. (For example, this website and my ad system, KakkoiiAds, are both closed-source!) However, I also happen to have open-source code, too. And where do you think I store it? Think I, send it off into the great black deep void of light-sucking black holes? Nope! I use GitHub, GitLab, and codeberg, but wait! Those actually do fall completely under the definition of social media! And not only that, but like lots of others, some of my proprietary source code is stored on private GitHub repositories. Meaning not only can I no longer create open-source code anymore, but I also am not allowed to access my closed-source code, either.
6 - talking to Tails. The Sonic Twitter Takeover #7 is tomorrow, and this one is the first of a kind. They are now taking questions from Twitter and TikTok, meaning they're going to be a lot more busy. And I already have my question written down in a text file, available publicly on my website. (Well, if you have the URL.) I made it on Sunday, than revised it earlier today, and am going to probably check it once again later today, at minimum. Maybe I'll check it twice, or even three times. And then probably again tomorrow morning, if the Takeover hasn't already started. When my dad said I could have my phone back if I didn't use Twitter or any other social media, that broke me, and I legit became depressed. For the rest of the night, I overused the word "baka" under my breath, because my mom knows what it means. I was depressed, and could barely get up this morning. I couldn't focus at all during first period, and barely remember what happened in second period. Because I was soooooo excited. I was nervous when I found out it was tomorrow, because, well why wouldn't I be? I'm going to be talking to my favorite Sonic character, and I just can't screw it up. That's why I'm writing the message in advance. My dad just does not and never will understand how important this is to me. In fact, I quickly checked the message right now right between writing this sentence and the previous one. Having a Twitter Takeover so soon I something I've only dreamed of, and now my dad is about to crush that dream. And I just can't have that happen, because I'm already nervous, I don't want to draw any fan comics (I usually do), I can't focus in school, I tried playing Wordle and Dino Run CE and Flappy Bird to try and distract my mind, but once I lost they just stopped being fun, and I started worrying again. Plus, I've been forgetting to actually charge my calculator, so that one's on me. But I had multiple mental breakdowns just because of this one. Having this dream crushed hit me the hardest, and at this point, ending up a hobo when I'm 18 was the least of my concerns.
6 - my website. Technically, I shouldn't even be writing this blog post because my website is hosted on Replit. And you've guessed it once again - yes, Replit does fit the definition of social media. So basically, with these new restrictions, I wouldn't be able to update my website until I'm 18. And that would be hella annoying for anyone who does find it. Considering I've just moved the formerly beta homepage out of the beta stage today, that would be annoying for people who, well, speak English. Confused? Basically, for during probably most of the development of my website's dark mode system and the beta homepage, dark mode was available globally on the Japanese version, and the Japanese version's homepage was the English version's beta homepage. Of course, with Japanese text instead of English text. (Though some of the text actually hasn't been translated on the homepage, and most blog posts and news articles are only in English!) So I needed to apply dark mode to the rest of the English version of my website, and also transfer the former homepage to a legacy URL (yes, believe or not, you can still access the old legacy homepage), and moved the beta homepage to the main URL. But technically, doing that involved using social media.
7 - music. First off, I use two apps to listen to music. SoundCloud, and YouTube They both allow you to upload stuff, and also both, yep, got it again - they both fall under the definition of social media. What's even worse is I want to become a musical artist, but haven't actually find a way to submit music to places like Spotify, or Pandora, or iTunes, or Google Play. So the only places I have to upload any music I make is SoundCloud, YouTube, Vimeo, and Niko Niko. And that's actually problematic for me, because otherwise I just have a bunch of songs that just sit on a laptop collecting dust, when they could be sitting on a worldwide server collecting revenue. Being a music artist was actually going to be another one of my jobs, and now, it looks like that's also cancelled. In addition, most Marisa Stole the Precious thing parodies I create are designed for use in crazy errors, but if I can't share videos, I'm not going to have as much motivation to create crazy errors. I also can't share the MSTPTs, so this actually gives me less motivation to create music, especially considering that MSTPT parodiess are probably the first type of music that I'd actually publish.
So dad, if you're reading this, I hope you understand why I need social media now. I could seriously go on and on. I could try to create games for 8-year-olds on Scratch - wait no, that's also social media, just aimed at kids. See? Practically everything that I rely on is social media. Even Canvas has some aspects (eg chats and forums) that can be considered social media - and some of those chats are graded. In other words, I need social media, and I do know how to use it safely.
