(This is a bit of a yap fest, but it's not TOO long. Oh, and there MIGHT be some spelling and grammer issues in here but I'm too tired to check and/or fix them...) Let's just talk about motivation, shall we? I've been uploading OSTs across all my accounts for around 2 years now. In that time, I've currently posted (at least the ones I didn't unshare and tossed in the trash) 109 tracks on this one. Most of them are from games and movies I like while a few are requests from other people. But when you hop on Scratch every day and see no inbox notifications, it starts to get kind of unmotivating. It's almost like I'm... nothing. A good 60-70% of my project have less than 10 views, and a good handful of those have less than 5, and a good handful of THOSE have only 1 view. 1 single person has viewed it. Or maybe no one has, since Scratch sometimes sometimes counts you, the uploader, as a view (for some reason). And another thing that really unmotivates me is seeing other accounts (that do the same thing as I do) get more views than me. Heck, I've seen one account post the same track I posted 7 days earlier than it, (not saying the exact track or account) and guess how many views they got (as of right now) compared to mine? At LEAST 20x the views. That around 100 views TOTAL. The most viewed project across ALL my music uploading accounts has 89 views (Last I checked at least... which was a couple days ago as of writing this). I feel like I'm nothing in the rough see that is Scratch. Well, most people are. Some people spend years on this site, yet they don't get enough views for the time they've spent here. I guess it's just been so long since I got a big hit. I'm not even motivated enough to post the Legends Z-A OST on @That_Baryonyx when it comes out, which disappoints me. I feel like it's an obligation for me to do that kinda stuff but, like I said a million times now, I'm just not motivated. Maybe it's burnout. Maybe I should just take a break from Scratch for a while. But if I do that, then I have the fear of completely getting ignored by even my current followers... I hate this platform. Not because of it itself (though the moderation is still dookie), but because it's just SO DIFFICULT to get views. You can't search for projects efficiently UNLESS you type the title VERY specific. The system doesn't just look at key words for what you searched. As an example, let's say want to listen to Wario Stadium from Mario Kart World, so you search up "Wario Stadium Mario Kart World". Well, with the way I title my projects, it wouldn't show up because of the "|" I put to seperate the track title from which game it's from. Oh, and it probably also wouldn't show up because I put "OST" at the end. I want to post. I want to post SO BADLY. I just don't know WHAT to post. Music requests only happen once in a blue moon and all the tracks I want to upload (that haven't been) are probably never going to get found, as there are, like, a million other ones using the music out there. If ANYONE sees this (which I doubt), some requests would be helpful. Maybe it'll spark some motivation in me. Who knows though... Well, that's all for now. Catch ya' later...
