So, that whole ‘Kim K tape’ situation. Man, what a circus that was. You couldn’t escape it, could you? It was just everywhere, plastered all over the internet, every news feed, people whispering about it. Honestly, it made me think a lot about how stuff just explodes online, whether you want it to or not.
I remember at the time, I was neck-deep in something completely different. We were trying to get a small community project off the ground. Spent ages on it, a bunch of us. Planning, late nights, the whole nine yards. We were all pretty proud of what we’d put together, ready to show it to the world.
And then, boom. That tape story hits. And it was like a black hole, sucked all the air out of the room. Our little project? Might as well have been invisible. All the local buzz, any attention we hoped to get, just vanished. Our ‘practice’ for weeks became trying to even get noticed, like shouting into a hurricane. It was frustrating as hell, let me tell you.
What I Learned (Or Tried To)
You pour your heart into something, and then something totally unrelated, something kinda out there and sensational, just completely hijacks everyone’s attention. It wasn’t about the tape itself for me, not really. It was about seeing how easily genuine effort can get sideswiped by… well, by the loudest noise in the room.
My ‘practice’ back then really became figuring out how to deal with that feeling. It was a tough lesson in humility, I guess. And a lesson in how the whole media machine works, or doesn’t, depending on your point of view. Some things I remember us trying to do, or just things we ended up doing to cope:
- Just keep plugging away, hoping the darn storm would pass eventually.
- Try to find a different angle, a totally different way to talk about our stuff so it wouldn’t get lost.
- Honestly, sometimes we just ended up venting to each other about how unfair the whole thing felt.
- Realize that your timing can be perfect, but the world’s timing is something else entirely and completely out of your hands.
It’s like that old saying, right? Man plans, and then something completely bonkers happens. Or in this case, you plan your little thing, and then some massive celebrity scandal just breaks the internet. You just gotta learn to roll with the punches, or at least try to. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck hard at the time, though. It really, really did.
That whole period taught me a lot about patience, or maybe my serious lack of it back then, and about how some narratives just have a life of their own, no matter what you’re trying to build or share with people. It’s a messy world out there, especially with how fast things spread online. You try to do good work, put something positive out into the universe, and sometimes you just get drowned out by the sheer volume of… well, other stuff. That was my practical takeaway from that whole era, if you can even call it that. Just trying to keep your head above water when the waves of nonsense get too high.
