Reply To: 🆓🎁New FREE SYNTH from Majetone and It Sounds Beautiful

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On joegyork said

This is really sad. There is so much trolling of people just trying to do a good job – as you know only too well @peter

Yeah, that’s why it hit hard. I’ve been the target of cyberbullying and harassment far more than once in the three decades since I made digital my career, including this week. People who haven’t experienced it have no idea what it can do to you, especially when your reputation is so critical to your business or, in this case of LM, your passion project. You realize that malicious individuals can easily destroy everything that you’ve worked so hard to build, pretty easily by spreading lies and defaming you. And the sad part, as you know (for those who don’t know, Joe is a moderator here and a large Facebook group for Creative Sauce). It doesn’t matter if you’ve done things the right way. It doesn’t matter what your heart is. People with all sorts of twisted motivations can go online and spread lies and hate for whatever bizarre, twisted motivations they have. In the case of James, he’s a super talented guy and when his stuff is on sale, it’s all no-brainer priced. It’s a ridiculously great value. And I know the man is not getting rich. People might see my posts and think — oh, Peter is friends with this guy ((‘m not, I’m just a fan of his work and in our interactions, when I told him that I love his work and tried to persuade him to do an additional mapping of Truck Drums, he was personal, he was polite, he was kind and really down to earth — he seemed very genuine). His work brings me joy. I am grateful for that. He’s far more talented than the average developer. I suppose he’s like the drummer version of Ben Osterhouse. A very talented musician and sample developer who constantly thinks up new, creative ways of approaching sample libraries. These guys aren’t doing the typical, the obvious.

If someone has a technical issue with something this developer has made and the developer commits to fixing it, that is the best any small developer — or even a larger developer — can do. The problem is with an individual who attacks that developer (and largely the bullies are annoymous people who are tough guys behind a computer keyboard), not the developer. I created LinkedMusicians to prioritize music creators, but never to be unjust towards developers or anyone else. State the facts, it’s okay to share that something caused you frustration, but, especially when it’s a small developer, never forget someone’s humanity. Never forget that there is a human being who made that sample library or plugin when you’re dealing with a one-person operation. That same person has to wear a lot of hats, and if you’re ridiculing their work publicly, that can be an emotional thing for that person. It can be an attack on their business, their skills, their performance, their integrity.  I’m an empath by nature. I loathe seeing people unleashing cruelty on others and seeing how this has gotten to James really is heartbreaking. This is absolutely a community that is well-suited for empaths. It’s also a place to hold up and shine a light on great small indie developers like Majetone in a way that is unlikely to happen on the big forums in this space or by influencers when they can make good money money by making videos for larger developers (I’ve been working on an article — more like the articles I used to write in my marketing strategy publication, but not written for business professionals, but musicians and music producers; I’m going to keep all of the names of the people I’m interviewing confidential, so that they will share everything, including what they’ve paid influencers, so that sharing that info won’t have negative repercussions for them in the industry and by influencers) that sheds light how influencer marketing works in this industry.  It’s kind of like exposing that pro wrestling isn’t real, it’s staged performances and influencer videos are equally as genuine as pro wrestling matches).

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