Social media, inspiring or discouraging?

Veena · 2014-07-10T11:58:09+00:00

I started this topic because of a few comments made on a different thread about What's hot for pole tricks right now. https://www.studioveena.com/forums/view/53b9f94f-c380-4b6b-abd1-138e0a9aa0eb#bottom My reply became a bit long and decided that instead of derail the conversation I'd start a new one. :) It was interesting to read in the thread posted above, the comments about social media and only seeing really advanced pole work. I hear that very complaint a LOT from other pole dancers, they explain that seeing only clips of crazy tricks and video of performers doing pole work that is unobtainable for most who pole causally, is discouraging and really the majority who purchase pole related products only pole causally. We need elite athletes to represent pole too, but right now we are a small industry and I'm not sure that representing only the elite is working? While I think it is frustrating to only see elite pole represented or shared, tell me this.... Who is making the impossible and crazy trick so popular? From what I've seen, it's us, the pole dancers AND companies that are pole related! On SV it's a different environment so I'm not talking about this site, we comment and appreciate all aspects of pole, at least from what I see. We respect the impossible trick, yet we share in the joy of the first pole sit and the beauty of "dancing it out" when we are down. So why are we only sharing the crazy sh*t on our social media? On FB and other social media, I find that the only way someone will share my work, is if it's pushing that "omg that looks so hard" or "wow, I've never seen that move before." It's beyond frustrating to me, I love to record and share my dances, but I've stopped for the most part because my work seems to fall by the wayside, (on social media) it's not exciting enough to be shared. My full length videos rarely get shares, the clips that receive likes and shares are those that look the most difficult. In fact I've found I can post several 15 sec…

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