4 tips for #ControlTV

Nov 6

Alrite, so I've spent a big chunk of the last few hours intermittently watching ControlTV. I was on it recently, but that's neither here nor there ... these people are the closest ones to what I ultimately want to do, so you have to understand my interest has been peaked.

Please note, this is not at all a personal attack. I'm Buddhist, totally not my style. But I literally live every.single.day. in this medium and literally place my life on the line every day for it by bartering social media to live. This is my passion, and something I CRAZY STUPID believe in!!! On that note ...

You're doing it wrong.

I know in life, there are no rights and wrongs blah blah blah ... but if you guys can make this work, it will make my own life a lot easier, so please know, there are ulterior motives here. Tristan is a great dude ... he's from Connecticut, good looking, whatevs, but could not be any more wrong for this type of environment.

I kid you not, when I say LITERALLY every person that I know that saw me on ControlTV, or has since tuned in when I asked them to ... has said the same thing, why is this guy so douchey?

And that's the thing ... he's a great kid, again, this is NOT a personal attack ... but rather an observation of the medium as a whole. He comes off as WAYYYYYYYYY too cocky. And not like even in a funny way. Like in a way that makes me just want to turn off.

I totally made some of the same mistakes in my old liveshow back on LiveVideo (brought to you by one of the founders of Myspace) back in 2007. I get it. It's a weird scenario to be placed in ... but please for the love of all things holy, I didn't give up everything I owned and start to barter everything in my life to have something like this mess it up!!!

Here are some tips:

1. You HAVEEEE to come from a place of constant gratitude.

For reals, this is the internet, we make you. We know we make you. And we want to own that. So let us!!! THANK US!!! And not in a douchey condescending manner. We can tell when you're faking it.

2. Don't call us fans.

Zuckerberg swapped out fan pages for like pages for a reason. We are now conditioned to classify people as "friends" online. We don't want to be your fan, we want to be your friend. Be a part of this journey with us. Don't place yourself on a higher platform than you deserve. Again, gratitude should be your only attitude!

3. Stop talking about your experience being filmed and livestreaming. It's annoying.

We want to be brought along into your life, not have this seperation of being constantly reminded that the person we are watching knows we are watching him. We are voyeurs. Let us peek, but don't run out and say ... I SEEEE YOOUUUUUU!!! That's just weird.

4. INTERACT INTERACT INTERACT!!!

Talk to us like we're your best friend!!! Dude, I can't write for shit. But I can communicate very well. Big difference. All the writers on this site write like they are talking to their best friend. We're not journalists, just a bunch of nerdy peeps documenting things in life that matter to us. We want to talk to you, but not as Tristan this mighty mighty being ... just like Tristan, my friend on the other end of the screen.

I love these people. I LOVEEE this concept. I have LITERALLY devoted my life to lifecasting ... but man, you are fucking it up so badly, its literally heart breaking. For reals ... right now ... my heart = breaking.

*insert sad face*

Again, this is NOT about me, about this website ... whatevs. This is just something I REALLLYYY believe in, and I am consistently striving to find the path of least resistence. If you fuck this up, it'll make it more difficult for me in the future. So yeah, there ya go. And yeah ... love you, but please figure your shit out.