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10 TIPS FOR GETTING SOUNDCLOUD FOLLOWERS IN 2019 – HOW TO GET STARTED ON SOUNDCLOUD

Maybe you haven’t hit that first hundred or first thousand or even first ten thousand and in my opinion SoundCloud is still going to be super valuable. So this article is all about how you can gain traction and gain followers on SoundCloud in 2019. Let’s go so it’s 2019 and streaming is becoming more and more popular for music.

There’s SoundCloud, there’s Spotify, there’s Apple music. There’s all these different platforms. However, in my opinion, SoundCloud is still one of the most vital ones, because in a lot of ways it’s still the only kind of social network of music. You have Spotify, you have all these other ones, but SoundCloud is the only one where you can really comment. Communicate interact with your fans, interact with artists, you want to message and be in contact with, and I still think SoundCloud is still very valid.

It’s still very good, and you know who knows two months from now six months from now they could figure their stuff. Oh and they could still become one of the most popular platforms for music, especially underground music. So let’s just get into these ten tips now the first one doesn’t have to do with SoundCloud itself has to do with you and its quality. The quality of your music is going to be absolutely vital for standing out on SoundCloud SoundCloud.

You have to just dig through a constant pile of crap and, in my opinion, the only music that is going to continuously hook. People in is high quality music. Now, I’m not saying you have to be Skrillex or phlume or Diplo, or you know any of these levels of musicians. But what I recommend doing is listen to listening to your favorite artists, artists. You aspire to sound like or you think you sound like and really objectively try and look at it and see if you are 80 % as good as they are.

I would say to succeed on Soundcloud and to stand out. You really have to be at least 80 % as good as the people you aspire to sound like, and if you don’t honestly, I think you’ll just get forgotten and your music will quickly fall into the pile and you’re not going to stand out. And it’s just going to be a lot of effort when I think spending that time on social media could be better spent on trying to grow your skills versus that so step one before you really even think about getting yourself on soundcloud.

I would make sure your music is about 80 % as good as those of you aspire to sound like quality. So you can put your best foot forward now. Tip number two goes into the whole quality versus quantity debate and it comes down to quantity or more so consistency. I think consistency is very important. A song has a specific lifespan and it’s actually starting to get shorter and shorter. But what I mean by that and what I mean by the lifespan of a track is say: you put out a new track well over the course of say a month and even a short is now three weeks even two weeks, even one week in the day And age of music, we live in it kind of has a lifespan where you gain all this traction, maybe get YouTube.

Support blog support, support from your friends. You gain this new attention for it, you gain these followers. You gain these fans, you gain these listens and it reaches a peak and then it quickly steeply starts to cut off and the track quickly becomes forgotten for the most part in this day and age of music. Unless, of course, it’s a masterpiece and it’s a it’s a very standout song, but for the most part musics just going to go up, have a lifespan and it’s going to go down now.

If you’re, putting one song out every two months, you’re not going to stand out and you’re going to quickly be forgotten, just think about you as a listener. How many new artists are always on your radar, new music and how many of them to you really stand out and are ones you keep going back to and very likely it’s only the ones where they’re constantly in your face constantly providing you with a new song And for personally, I’m just speaking personally here, it takes about 4 to 5 songs from artists for that to kind of click in my head and be like.

Oh, I like this artist. This is an artist. I want to follow and pay attention to say. For example, I don’t know an artist I I recently fell in love with would be like bad computer, whose releases a lot on monstercat. I heard one song of his. I really liked it and I gave him a follow in the hopes that maybe he’ll put out more stuff that I’ll really like. And luckily I followed him around the time where he started to consistently release on monstercat, probably once a month, and those songs were just constantly on my radar, like good new song, good new song, good new song and that solidified him to me.

As one of my favorites, while there could be another artist where they put out a single and it’s like one of the best singles I’ve ever heard, but if they don’t put something out, I’m going to quickly forget about them and not consider them. One of my favorites one of those go-to artists, one of those artists that, if they played in my town, I’d, want to go see or one of those artists that I’d follow on Soundcloud form or I would eventually go through my soundcloud followers and be like.

Oh, I got the single from this person, I’m not going to follow them anymore unfollow, so you need a really good balance of quality and consistency, and it might take a while to get to that point where your skills are at the point where you can write At least one quality song and release it per month, but I recommend the quicker you can do that. The quicker that, consistent that that lifespan can build on itself, because once your track hits the peak of its plays and follows, then you drop that next track and every all those new people who just start paying attention to you are going to listen to that new Song and it’s going to keep going up, you’re going to keep going up instead of kind of getting a bunch of new followers and some of them disappearing or not interacting with your work anymore.

So number two was consistency. Now number three is a little less useful in 2019, but I still wouldn’t rule it out and that is download gates. Now, if you don’t know how to download gate, a download gate is a website in a a technique that you can use to set up a download for your song, where, when someone downloads your song, instead of asking for money, you ask for some sort of social Currency and that could be a SoundCloud follow.

That could be a Facebook light, and in this case, because we’re doing SoundCloud follows in SoundCloud growth, you do it for a SoundCloud follow, maybe even a repost, maybe even a comment, because a bunch of comments on your track will make it look really good and give Social proof to the fact that your track is worth listening to and people like it, so those are going to be websites like the artist Union tone.

Den hive fan gate, there’s there’s so many right now, they’re so easy to set up, and it’s it’s really as easy as you set up a download gate for a track go to any of those websites, easy breezy. And then, when someone wants to download your track, they’ll have to like it repost it follow you, and hopefully that repost and that follow will either lead them to listening to more of your music in the future or that repost getting the attention of others and the Reason I say it’s still valuable is even though the average listener is probably just streaming your track, putting it in a playlist putting it in their favorites DJs and people who still like to collect songs on their computer, primarily DJ’s are still going to want to download Your music, I know myself whenever I have a show coming up.

I probably download like a hundred new songs, and I have to go through those download gates pretty much for every single one I buy very little music or maybe a third to a quarter while most of the music I’m still going through a download gate to acquire. So this is going to be super beneficial because you’re going to get reposts you’re going to get likes, you can get favorites, maybe even comments, and it can take a track that has no traction and if it’s good enough people will download it and it will get Traction so I recommend still using to download gates in 2019.

Now the next technique is using download gates for stuff other than music and providing values, and what I mean by that is: yes: you’ll have DJ’s that use download gates, but that’s still very few. However, one way down low gates are still really valuable is to provide some sort of value for your audience or prospective audience, be it through a sound through a sample pack. Maybe you write a blog that can only be accessed through a download gate.

So what you can do is you can create a really desirable item, property of some sort, sample, packs presets inside look article. I could you can get really creative with it and you can actually put it behind a download gate where someone has to use a download gate to access it, and this is actually how I got a lot of my following and how cymatics the company I used To work for gained a ton of their following is where, if you want to download a sample pack, if you want to download preset something like that, you have to use a download gate or stems.

If someone wants to remix your song or something like that, they have to use this download gate and for me that gets way more downloads than a song to a download gate. So tip number four is provide value for your audience and put that behind it download Gate where they have to then follow you repost it or something like that now tip number five for growing. Your soundcloud is going to be repost trading or joining repost circles.

Now there’s two sort of different things here. The first is repost trading, where you can go to websites which I think like repost Network or things like that, where you can essentially put your song up on there and you can kind of get asked for a bid. Essentially that where someone can offer to repost it for you reposting one of their songs and the reason I say bid, because a lot of times has to do with how many followers you have so like.

I have a SoundCloud with 15k, so I can ask an account with 15k to do a trade, for example, and then I just you know, select their song hit, yes, make an offer. If we agree, I don’t even have to do any of the work it’ll actually manually, do it for you for 24 hours, so if you’re, really new to SoundCloud using these websites to just create all these repost trades and get songs to repost is really useful because Reposting on Soundcloud is, in my opinion, one of the best things and worse things about it and my opinion kind of ruins SoundCloud because it kind of ruined your feed and it ruined the cleanliness of just following people.

You like, however, I’m not going to avoid the elephant in the room I’m going to take advantage of it, so I’m going to use websites like that to set up these repost networks. Now, on top of that, you can also set up repost networks with your friends. If you have friends who are all producers create, like a a group, chat a discord, something like that, where every time one of you releases a song, all of you are going to repost it periodically, and that way you can join forces with your friends, and everyone Gets each other’s support every time you put out a song cuz, it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere and it can be just a great way to start snowballing and get the attention you want that you yourself may not have with a brand new or very small Soundcloud, the next tip is going to be using your other social media.

Now this may seem very obvious, but using your Twitter, your Facebook, your Instagram, your snapchat, to push a song when it when it’s out is very beneficial. Now my main order word of advice here, though, is to grow those social media or social media separately, and not just making those a self promotional platform. You want to give people a reason to follow your Facebook, a reason to follow your Instagram, a reason to follow your Twitter, so you want to be providing value content on those platforms that isn’t just always here’s my soundcloud link, here’s my soundcloud link because nothing is Going to get you unfollowed or liked quicker, however, that being said, those social medias are going to be a great way to just get that initial traction, especially your personal Facebook account, because your other social media is probably going to be as small as your soundcloud or Within the same range, but your personal Facebook has your friends and they already interact with you and communicate with you not to mention you can private message: people you can private message.

Your best friends give them a song, ask them for support and, if you’re fairly new, to growing a sound fairly new to growing social media over all your friends are very likely to support you now. Someone like me, who’s been at it for five years. If I sent people links they’re so tired of seeing it, so it’s probably not very effective, but this tutorial isn’t for people who have been on South Club for five years.

This is people who are just growing and some people who are pretty much starting 2018-2019 so use your other social media to grow your soundcloud. The next tip is going to be YouTube promotional blogs to grow your soundcloud, so on YouTube. There are tons of blogs that exclusively upload other people’s music and what you can do, every time you put out a song is you can connect with these blogs? They usually have submission emails in their About section, collect dozens of them in a spreadsheet email them all.

Personally, one by one, and even if just one picks it up, and they include your download gate in the description say, your song got a thousand to ten thousand plays on one of these blogs, which is very realistic. You know some of these blogs can do very well and, let’s even just be conservative, let’s say you got a thousand plays, even if one percent of that thousand decided to actually download the song.

So one in a hundred plays that’s still ten more followers than you had the day before, and ten followers is a big deal. You shouldn’t take that for granted. So using YouTube’s promotional networks to actually get your music heard is very beneficial and I recommend using a promo strategy and having a promo plan every time you release a song or maybe you’re, hitting them up two weeks before you’re telling them hey my songs.

Coming out. This date, would you be interested you’re, starting to communicate with these people and find out who they are on a personal level. Building connections with them YouTube is still a very valid way of promoting music in 2019, and I still highly recommend it, especially with YouTube music becoming a thing where now people will actually be listening to and streaming music through YouTube music specifically and then, if they ever Choose to download it or see your name and like it it’ll probably convert.

However many even however little will convert to followers on Soundcloud. The next step is going to be joining the community. So one of the things I was preaching in the beginning that I like about SoundCloud, is it still very much a social network you’re still very much communicating reposting, commenting private messaging, all these things and if you join the community and you start to find artists and Participate in their work, they’re so much more likely to check yours.

Oh now, I’m not recommending to go to you know a huge producer and spam their song with comments to check out your work, but I recommend finding musicians around your level and giving them really constructive. Creative or kind feedback that you truly mean listen to their music, tell them what you liked about it tell them what you think maybe check out a couple of their songs. Don’t ever ask them to check out yours, but just be a part of the community and participate in their work and you’re more likely to build a community and have people to start to connect with yours, one of my best friends in the world, Sam winter him And I actually met on soundcloud and he’s actually from Ottawa, and this was back when you’re both started, and I was doing just that.

Every day I was like grinding, I was just like finding music and I was participating. I was communicating, he was one of them. We started private messaging years later. He moved to live with me in Vancouver and we started a business. I eventually worked for cymatics and lived together for like a year and a half, so you never know you know. Being part of the community is a great way to just start to build your inner circle and just really grassroots connect and build a community from the ground up and lastly, I recommend branding and when I say branding I mean really perfecting how your soundcloud looks.

You want really clean links, a really clean bio, taking advantage of the image and the header on top of it, having a really good name. That’s really easy for people to search and remember memorable song names that are probably related and ideally even a consistent, sound or style. Now, if you’re still really new musician, you may still be finding that so don’t hurt yourself and beat yourself up too much about finding that.

However, I just really recommend the sooner you build a brand. You build a consistent, sound, a style and aesthetic something that really sticks in people’s minds when they see it. It’s going to help people want to follow you and will recognize your song in their feed and are more likely to check it out again later, so there we go guys. That was ten tips on how you can grow a SoundCloud in 2019. I still think SoundCloud is very valid and even if you’re just starting from Ground Zero, now it’s never too late and there’s still a lot of tips and tricks.

You can get to get that first hundred, first thousand, even first ten thousand followers on soundcloud. So I hope you guys got a lot out of this tutorial. I know it’s different than my typical music production tutorial. So if you liked it, let me know, I hope you guys got a lot out of it. My name is Cromartie thanks again and I’ll be back soon with another article peace

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Google Pay API Implementation Demo (Web)

Google Pay For your e-commerce website in four simple steps Load, the Google Pay API, JavaScript library, determine readiness to pay. Add the Google Pay button, create a PaymentDataRequest object: ♪ (, music, ) ♪. First, you add the script tag to your site. As soon as the script is loaded. You will construct the PaymentsClient object by passing it to an environment field TEST or PRODUCTION For the TEST environment.

You don’t need to register with Google. You can play with the API yourself. And integrate into your site In this case we do show users’ real data. However, whenever they make a selection We will return you a fake token If you are working with one Of the supported processors, we will return you a token which you can use in their TEST environment. Remember your real card details are never used when in environment TEST, but you must add at least one chargeable card to your Google account before you proceed Once you complete.

The integration And you are ready to handle real payments, come and register with us. Through our self-service portal and then flip the environment to PRODUCTION, You can apply for production access. On g.Co/pay/sign-up, Now that you have Your PaymentsClient constructed the first API you will call is is ReadyToPay With is ReadyToPay. You can determine whether the user Has a valid payment method on file and is on a supported browser.

The Google Pay API Supports all major browsers, including Safari, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, UC, Browser and soon Microsoft Edge At Google. We focus On optimizing for conversion, so, if is ReadyToPay returns false, we highly recommend that you do not render The Google Pay button Now that you know that the user Is ready to make a payment? You will call our second API createButton. We recommend that you use this API To ensure the Google Pay branding is used correctly per our latest guidelines In the future.

We will also Automatically translate the button text based on the user’s location. Once you add the button to your site, And the user clicks on the button, you will call the loadPaymentData To open up the payment sheet, You can construct The paymentDataRequest object, which is a set of payments configurations, Used for this particular transaction, You can specify and request The following information: in addition to the payment credentials, email phone number Shipping address billing address.

We recommend that you collect As little information as necessary to prevent users from typing Additional information which might not be stored, In their accounts, One more point to call out in this object is the payment request. Tokenization parameters: Google, encrypts information, About a shopper’s selected card for secure processing, By a merchant’s gateway or directly on a merchant’s, secured servers Be sure to check your processor’s Integration guidelines to find out what they need: To finalize the payment Now that you’ve constructed The request object: you will pass it to loadPaymentData, an async call which will open Our payment sheet, Once the user, makes a selection, we will return to you a paymentData object which consists of metadata About the user’s selection, It also includes the payment token, which you can use.

To complete the transaction, Now you can send The final production-ready app to Google for a final test: Google tests, the apps with real cards And informs you if everything is correct, The app is then cleared to launch. You can find additional information. In our developer, documentation on g.Co/pay/api Don’t miss any future articles. About Google Pay, Chrome and Web and subscribe to the Google Chrome Developers blog If you’re reading on a mobile tap the little bell to receive New upload notifications See you soon: ♪ ( music ends ) ♪,

 

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The Secret Handshake Revealed

I want to share with you a very powerful handshake that will be slightly different to what you may be using or being taught to use in the past. Now, if we look at the typical handshakes that we are all familiar with, there is the week, although wet bitch handshake is, is commonly known, weather person and just spills or limp, not a nice handshake. There is the dominant handshape, the handshake of somebody who & # 39 s, trying to say on a real man where we feel, and sometimes here the phones in our house being crushed.

And then there is the neutral handshake where both people have hands that are in the virtual position. The pressure is firm, but it is matched to the person that you & # 39 re shaking hands with and normally a couple of, pumps up and down and in this event, shake is released. Now this neutral handshake is a great way to build rapport. However, coming close, because I am going to share a secret handshake that will cause a person that you are shaking hands with to infinity like and trust you on a subconscious level.

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This handshake will raise the engagement level in the interaction, and the best part is if the other person won & # 39, t even realize what you are doing, so it & # 39 s, really simple. When it goes like this, I should go in to shake hands slowly and gently angle. Your palms slightly skyward and you & # 39 re, going to mirror their their pressure in a way of grip. But in addition to that, you need to also gently allow their hand to get closer to your stomach area.

By doing this, you are allowing them access to your vulnerable space. You are silently sending a message that trust is already established. The you are willing friends, which makes them feel good right in the beginning of the interaction. Now, as I say, it does raise the engagement level because of the unconscious feeling that it causes in the other person, so give it a try for yourself. I think that you & # 39 ll, be really pleased with the results.

This handshake served me well over time, and I know that it & # 39 s, going to be a huge benefit you, so all you go to now is hit that share button below thanks for reading, and we they take action, create your story:

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week before tournament do’s and don’ts about new ideas

Staying sharp and you’re, really just workshopping very specific parts of the things that you are trying to do. Well, okay, what you want to avoid is introducing new things that you’ve never talked about at the end of the season. If you’re introducing a new thing, you don’t want to be it, you don’t want that thing to be like the bedrock of what you’re about to do right, like hopefully, you’ve introduced all the big big chunks if you’re going to introduce a new thing, it’s for the Sake of just keeping people fresh, so, for example, you know sometimes we’ll do something new at a practice at the end of the year, just to get people out of to snap people out of the idea of like you, don’t want them in the groove.

You want to just sort of keep their brains on fire, so if you’re going to do something, don’t have it be like a total groundbreaking new thing that you’re going to focus on during the tournament. You know I’ve introduced like fun versions of scrimmage or things that are like explicitly fun with my youth teams. Sometimes we’ll even do that at a Sakai training just to sort of break the ice will like do a scrimmage where we’ll mix up teams a couple weeks before the tournament just to like, have it feeling fun and fresh and recurrent to connect with your teammates.

We won’t do it for long, but just something to sort of mix it up and sort of hit. The reset button can be a really good idea.

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The Wrong Amazon Is Burning

You probably already knew that, but they only use a fraction of that water. The rest is released into the air through the leaves flowers and stems in process called transpiration, something like 90 % of the water pulled from the ground end up in the air and because there are so many trees in the Amazon.

The process essentially creates a river. In the sky, which kind of mirrors the actual Amazon River itself, the flowing backwards deeper into the interior of South America, amazingly, the Amazon rainforest actually creates approximately half of its own rainfall by recycling moisture from the Atlantic Ocean five to six times the water just keeps Going up and down up and down up and down deeper and deeper into the western part of South America into the Andes without that sky River, the Amazon rainforest ecosystem will collapse.

I mean obviously trees like every living thing on this godforsaken planet need water to survive and trees in the interior. Part of the rainforest rely on the sky river for water. So if enough trees on the outskirts of Amazon are cut down, there will be less water transported deeper into the rainforest, killing even more trees, which led to even less water transported to the interior and so on and so on.

Until the collapse begins. Now you may wonder how the Amazon rainforest came to be in the first place if it requires such an intricately dependent system. Well, the short answer is that millions of years ago, during the Eocene epoch, the earth was about five to eight degrees, warmer, that it is today. In other words, it was really really hot. There was no ice at the higher latitudes and tropical rainforests, stretched from pole to pole.

Then, as the earth entered an ice age, the rainforests receded to the equator. Other ecosystems that couldn’t maintain its own climate system collapsed. The Amazon rainforest, on the other hand, could maintain its own climate system side. Note if your first instinct after hearing that is to go see the earth has been much warmer before climate change is not going to be bad. I mean there were rain forests on the poles, then kindly off yeah.

There has been much much warmer a long time ago, but back then the temperature rose over millions of years, which allowed nature to evolve and adapt to the new environment. What we’re doing today is closer to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs by changing the environment on a human time scale, leaving no room for life to adapt to the new environment. Also, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we can own a tower climate to be stable, to grow food and maintain civilization and share.

So if Amazon’s climate system is disrupted, if that sky river system is gone, the whole ecosystem will collapse and, more importantly, won’t grow back. South America will gradually be drier and drier, which will lead to more forest fires, which will then accelerate the whole process all over. Again, the climate in the interior of South America will be closer to that of the Serengeti plains of East Africa, which lies on the same longitude as the rainforest.

It will be a dry savanna, closer to a desert even and here’s the depressing part. A scientist estimate the collapse will begin when around 20 to 25 percent of Amazon is deforested and once the collapse starts, it cannot be stopped, even if, before a station is completely halted. Now, would you like to guess how much of the rain forest has been deforested? Maybe one percent two percent ten fifteen well more, like nineteen point, seven percent in 2018 – I’m pretty sure the number has gone up by now.

You don’t have to be good at math to realize that 19.7 % is awfully close to twenty percent. So we are inching closer and closer to the collapse of the Amazon rainforest. If not stopped, the collapse will probably take decades to complete, but it will be catastrophic for not only South America but also the whole world see the Amazon rainforest affects the weather pattern in the whole continent of America, both north and south.

It transports water throughout the whole continent, so without it there be less rainfall in some regions, while other regions will experience more floodings, unstable weather patterns, who will disrupt food production on the whole continent and because the United States is one of the leading food producers in The world this disruption will ripple everywhere else and cause food shortages. Of course, this will also create food shortages in the Americas too, which is can ironic, considering Amazon deforestation is done for food production in the first place and in the worst case scenario, the whole amazon basin and a big chunk of South America turns into a dry Desert like Serengeti, which is not conducive for agriculture, thus it least, but there’s another way.

The Amazon rainforest affects the rest of the world. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the world is goddamn burning down right now you know climate change and well. The Amazon rainforest plays a central role in mitigating climate change, because it is one of the largest carbon sinks in the world, but if deforestation continues, that will change, as you probably know, trees you co2 to do, therefore, the synthesis later and co2 and water into sugars By using the energy from the Sun, which is kind of crazy, if you think about it, I mean a big-ass tree, he was nothing but gas and water before it is for me to gigantic measure of cellulose.

That’s that’s kind of crazy anyways, so trees turn co2 into more trees, but it’s a little bit more complicated than that, while trees to sequester co2, those same trees will eventually die normally when they die. They decay back into co2 either because they’re digested by microorganisms or because they’re burned by natural force fires, the amount of co2 absorbed by forests depends on how many new trees can grow.

So if, let’s say hypothetically, an advanced species of primate were to burn parts of it and don’t let the rainforests grow back, the forest actually turns into a co2 emitter. What’s worse, if the whole ecosystem collapse, all of those trees will turn back into co2. Making climate change much much worse, the trees don’t have to be burned either. The natural decay process will do the trick just fine, but more than that, turning rainforests into agricultural land degrades the soil.

This is important because one we need healthy soil to grow crops and to soil is also a carbon sink now not going to lie. I really don’t understand how soil actually absorbs co2, but it does, and if the soil is degraded, then it will instead release stored. Co2, on top of not absorbing newly released carbon dioxide and again, if, let’s say hypothetically, an advanced species of primate, were to cut down large swathes of the Amazon rainforest and turning them into farmland.

The whole bunch of co2 stored in the soil will be released. Hypothetically. This will make combating climate change a huge nightmare that it’s all I have a vertical right. Oh wait, uh, no yeah! It’s really happening. You’ve, probably seen the news right. They’re burning down the Amazon rainforest, so cows could meet. The rainforest is being slashed and burned to make way for soy, farms and cattle pastures, and actually these soy, boys and cowboys have been incentivized by the Brazilian government to clear the forests see.

Well, they could get fine if they were caught burning, a forested area to some weird-ass loopholes. They can actually sell back the same land to the government with high margin. Essentially, the government is subsidizing before station, which is why deforestation rate was really really high in the mid-2000s. But then, when the left, ish government held power, deforestation was essentially controlled.

I mean it was still going on, but not at the absurdly high rate like it was in the mid 2000s. They were able to set up an independent Environmental Protection Agency, one that was actually capable of controlling before station. But then you know what happened. Deforestation has grown back since that proto-fascist took over balsa narrow, cut funding for Brazil’s Environmental Protection Agency, closed down its bases and transferred control of the agency to the agribusiness sector.

Now they are being controlled by people whose interests are at odds with agency’s purpose, he’s dismantling the agency successfully, I’m a dad, like so many other right-wing leaders all over the world as a result, they’re having 77 to 80 percent increase in the number of forest fires Month by month, compared to last year, but more than just a single year increase in deforestation. The bigger problem is that without that, agency will seem to stop it.

The deforestation rate will go up again, like it was in the mid-2000s. So more and more of the forest will be burned and we’ll be inching closer and closer to the tipping point of the Amazon ecosystem collapse and even more up. In many cases, the forest fires threaten their livelihood of indigenous people already living there. Their land is being invaded by illegal loggers and miners, and the forests where they live is being burned to the ground to make way for pastures and farms, and this is not some unintentional consequence of an extractive economic system.

This is not just because indigenous people occupy areas with valuable land, minerals and wood. This is a settler colonial project designed to assimilate indigenous people into what bolson are perceived to be the quote: unquote: real Brazilian culture. We’ve seen this before all over the world before in places where Kony ilysm plays a driving force in the culture, for example, in Canada, indigenous children were kidnapped and their culture is denied.

I would imagine both Senora would do something similar where he would remove indigenous people from their ancestral land and assimilate them into what he perceived to be. The Quran quote real dominant Brazilian culture. This process has already started an opening up. Indigenous lambda capital is the beginning. Point he dismantled the agency tasked with demarcating indigenous land, essentially facilitating land grab by capital by taking their land and burning their homes.

The state forces indigenous people to move somewhere else where their connection to their own culture can be diminished, while also assimilating and turning them into labour capital can exploit. And this all of this for beef, the land was made into pastures and the soy was for cows. All of this to satisfy the demand of the market, we’re for feeding the future of human civilization, because rich assholes eat too much beef.

Oh that’s right! It’s not the poor who eats beef! It’s the middle class people in China, you, Russia and UAE. They eat Brazilian beef. I’ve seen leftists defending people eating beef, saying that poor people all serve Western countries have a right to eat beef. Well, guess what it’s? Not poor! People they’re eating beef. No beef is more expensive than other food items all over the world and poor people, no matter where they are, cannot afford to eat beef regularly.

Instead, they will be the victims of climate change, because everyone else is eating beef, even though poor people are the least responsible for it said leftists blame capitalism on the destruction of Amazon, which is a fair point and I’ll get to in a moment, but the modern Livestock industry cannot be sustainable under any system, capitalist or otherwise. The scale at which humans are producing beef is straight-up unsustainable.

There is no way we can have billions of people eat beef every day or hell even every other day, without destroying the environment. The modern life stock industry produces about 14 % of all co2 emissions at about 7 Giga tons of co2 per year in acid driving force behind land use, co2 emissions, deforestation and land degradation. If humanity were to survive. This cannot go on, but, of course, the root cause of the problem is indeed capitalism in a world where profit is, God processes that maximize it will always be prioritized over long term sustainability or hell even human rights.

Just look at the indigenous people of Amazon, the invisible hand of the market dictates that beef is highly valuable right now, so, even if supply doesn’t come from Brazil, it will just come from other places and before station will continue there and it’s not solely a beef Or a Brazil problem either just look at what has happened in Indonesia with palm oil, millions of acres of forest are being cleared to make way for palm plantations, and it’s the main reason why Indonesia, co2 emissions are ridiculously high matter of fact.

Indonesia, co2 emissions from land use are more than other sources, combined, ok, side. Note, after recording this whole article, I realized I forgot to explain what land-use emissions are so uh. Let me just put it here so lenio submissions are greenhouse gases. Emissions brought about by how humans have changed the land itself, both in terms of what’s growing on top of the land and the chemical and physical components of the land.

For example, turning a forested area into farmland usually involves cutting down or burning trees which emit co2, which counts as land-use emissions. But agriculture also changes how the land itself is ordered by creating irrigation system, for example, and the chemical makeup of the soil itself. By adding things like fertilizer, these things might degrade the soil which turn the soil into greenhouse gases, emitter, which also counts as lanius emissions, and because how important this really is.

Let me reiterate this again: this is not only a Brazilian or an Indonesian or a beef or a palm oil problem. Countries all over the world, especially the so called developing countries, are driven to destroy the environment by the globalized financial capital. Here’s an interesting fact: all deforestation globally. All of them occur within 5 kilometers of a road or waterway. It should be pretty obvious why, right before clearing a forest infrastructures need to be built to move equipment and personnel.

People can’t just teleport to the middle of the forest and start hopping trees. These infrastructures are usually funded using loans from the World Bank last year alone. It committed 3 billion dollars to the transport sector. Obviously, the road itself is not the point of the loan, but rather the road is built as a means to extract and exploit natural resources in an area after an area is cleared, then the extractive process can begin and raw materials can then be sold to the International market, but there’s a problem with this fall, I mean more than the destruction of the environment itself.

This whole process actually traps developing nations into more and more debt, see the return of investment from that natural resources. Extraction might and will usually be lower than expected. This is because, as more and more natural resources are extracted, their supply increases and drives down their prices. This is fan-fucking-tastic for developed countries, because now raw materials can be bought for really cheaply and they can turn that into more expensive value added goods.

Not so much for developing countries, though, who now can generate enough money to pay back the debts, because raw materials are getting cheaper and cheaper, oh, and by the way that value-added goods they’re sold back to developing countries extracting even more money from us and so to Pay back that debt developing countries need to keep expanding their rate of natural resources extraction, which requires more infrastructures, which requires more foreign investment, which means more debt, which means clearing more forests and on and on the cycle, continues and guess what we’re losing this battle against Deforestation in recent years, the rate of deforestation has only accelerated in almost all developing countries.

Without these forests, we have no chance of mitigating climate change. The labor side of things isn’t much better either rural workers are moving to the cities because their labor is not in the men anymore due to agricultural modernization and the increasing price of land which prevents poor rural people from setting up farms. This increase in labor supply drives down wages across the board, both in the cities and rural areas, increasing poverty literally everywhere, but it’s lining the pocket of rich capitalists with so so much cash, but there’s yet another side to this one, where a feedback loop drives.

The rate of destruction of nature see because people need to you know, eat. An increasing number of people in cities means an increasing demand for food. This translates the more forests being cleared for farming, but more people in the cities also increases sprawling. Farmlands are being developed in the suburban housing, so more land on the periphery is needed for farming, and thus more forests are cleared.

This drives people out of the rural areas and into the cities increasing their population. So now more food is needed so on and so on, and let me reiterate this for the third time this is happening everywhere, especially in developing countries. The narrative is that developing countries need to grow the economy at all costs, to increase the people’s standards of living, or something like that. This, as the new liberal narrative dictates, needs to be done by leveraging comparative advantage, which usually means extracting and exploiting the country’s natural resources as much as possible.

But, as I have said earlier, this is entraps developing countries into more and more debt. I and many other people, on the other hand, think increasing people’s standards of living can be done without environmentally destructive processes. I mean look at Cuba where centers of living are high, but with low environmental impact. Now it can be argued – and I think this is true – that their low environmental impact is to the u.

S. Blockade, but even then it’s even more impressive now that they can establish high standards of living while being cut off from the international market. I’ll probably talk more about this in a future article, so I’ll spare the details for now. So what can be done for the Amazon rainforest? Well notice that most of the time, the reason rainforests are being cut down is that there is an international demand for primary commodities, so stuff like meat, soy, palm oil, ores or other minerals.

Most of the commodities produce there aren’t being consumed locally, with most of them being exported to developed countries, and these producers are large corporations with many of them being transnational companies. So one way to fix all of this mess is to not let big companies move into new lands and redistribute the land they already owned. Back to the local people. The commodities produced should be consumed or utilized locally, which limits the demand on said commodities.

Then governments need to stop subsidizing. The big agribusinesses hell government should stop subsidizing the extractive sector of the economy in an effort to lower production, cost subsidies allow companies to ignore externalities, which often includes environmental destruction. Essentially, all of this means we need to shift our priorities on what commodities who produce, how to produce them and how to distribute them.

Another important thing is to uphold indigenous peoples rights to their land, not encroach over it and give them the power to self-govern. Community based forestry management has been successful in reducing deforestation in places like Nepal and Indonesia, so replicating that elsewhere will be important. Indigenous farming practices also tend to be more sustainable because they know exactly how to take care of the local ecosystem.

We should also implement these indigenous practices everywhere else, along with other sustainable farming practices like permaculture, on top of that, not being a gigantic dick to indigenous people who have suffered the most from colonialism. As you know, a good thing, they deserve a good life, just like everyone else, free from exploitation and subjugation. The good news is that indigenous people in Brazil are fighting back against balsan ro.

There have been many demonstrations by indigenous groups against the government’s plan to open up more land and attempts at assimilation if you’d like to help them fight the fascist. There are a few charities link in the description now. Having said all of that, this will keep happening under capitalism, because, even if the land is given back to the local and indigenous people, as long as capitalism exists, the market will exert its power and try to get the land back under its influence.

There will be some capitalists asshole, who take a look at land and say: hey, that’s unproductive, it’s not making their money and fixing. This will never be profitable matter of fact, fixing all of this will be the opposite of profitable. Capitalism requires endless growth and to do that, more and more natural resources need to be extracted from the ground, so the burning of the Amazon rainforest is one of the many manifestations of the problem with capitalism.

It truly boils down to the way we produce, distribute and consume goods which happens to be completely unsustainable. I mean out of nine planetary. Boundaries were already passed, two of them and those two biogeochemical flows and genetic diversity are strongly linked to our food production and we’re inching closer towards another two boundaries, climate change and land use. To quote the paper that invented the term transgressing one or more planetary boundaries.

May be deleterious, or even catastrophic, due to the risk of crossing thresholds that will trigger nonlinear, abrupt environmental change within continental planetary scale systems and remember: we’ve crossed two of them and on track to cross another two. So we really don’t have much time, but we do still have some of it do whatever you need to do to make this better, or at least try go. Give money to charity go vote.

Tauron climate strikes write to your representatives, talk to other people about this. Organize your community radicalize youth, make youtube articles, make your voice heard start a revolution, something anything yeah. The wrong Amazon is being destroyed, but it doesn’t mean we can’t still make it right. Hey! Thank you for reading. If you like this article click that like button and subscribe, because that actually really helps me follow me on Twitter to feed my ego – and you know, hear my thoughts and stuff like that and sometimes are pretty good the most time they’re.

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Listening is like okay, that’s a big jump right doesn’t graduate high school was working at the kiosk in the mall now she’s on the wake up wealthy podcast, you know got this passive brand. Like the happened, okay, so I you know, let me fast-forward a bit I’m going to go into like a correctly okay. I went through so many jobs.

I went through so many jobs. I wait. I was in a Thomas assistant. I was a waitress. I did bottle service in Hollywood. I I worked at Hooters at one point. Tips were great. I I did everything I was just always hustling. I was constantly moving doing so many different things and when social media came around, I remember buying was the first platform that I jumped off jumped on um again adapting to this Lake.

I don’t really care what people think of me mode. I would like quick articles on vine that were really funny just making a fool of myself really or just saying completely out of line things or giving my opinion on things that a lot of people didn’t agree with, but some did that some found it funny. I started to get a lot of followers and a lot of like comments, a lot of random people, just like jumping on saying this is check.

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HOW TO BECOME A MODEL (my story & steps you should take)

Welcome back we’d, said, hey guys, so it’s me from the editing dimension. This article is super long, so here’s a timestamp you can jump to if you just want to get to my story on how we started modeling and how to become a model yourself. So yeah. Thank you guys so much for reading. So today, I’m making a article and chill sit-down article to talk to you guys about something that you have requested a lot since I started my blog and it’s making a article about how I started modeling um.

Now you might be wondering: how is that ugly modeling? What so, I’m going to tell you like my backstory to Leona bum, I myself have a little bit of a deep talk and then get on to like the more technical details of how I actually got into the industry. What it’s like for me and so and so forth? Okay! So I’m going to start a little bit about myself started a little bit about myself. I am 19 years old, as some of you know already.

I have modeled since I was 15 before modeling. I never really considered myself, but at least when I was like in fifth grade sixth grade. I always had a really low self esteem and I was very self. What’s the word, what’s the word insecure, I was always really insecure about what I looked like. I wasn’t attractive whatsoever, I was, I was still a child, but you know at that age. You already know you know about being attractive and or whatever cuz.

You know. You start your friends start dating and your classmates start dating people and you’re like a boy and such and such and when I was in fifth grade, I had the biggest crush on this boy and he didn’t like me back. He just didn’t like me back. He liked other girls, my class and I tried so hard. I was so obviously like I was so cringy, but anyways yeah. I I always felt like the dove of my friend group.

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I had a really pretty friend, and you know it was a typical situation where boys come up to you and talk to you just to get your friends number or you know. Do you think you can help me out with your friend stuff like that, and so I always had it like a really low self-esteem of my appearance. I actually don’t have any pictures that I can show you of what I look like, because I have them in my computer back in Costa Rica, so yeah, I don’t have any online and you know so yeah.

It was like very unsecure um and I I know I knew – and I know now still that I wasn’t attractive whatsoever – a same story with another boy in sixth grade. I liked him. I asked him to basically ask him out, which was a really bad idea, and I literally just got projected. I experienced rejection a lot when I was younger but as time went by, I think it was on sixth grade seventh grade. Actually, I think it was seventh grade that was the fifth grade.

Sixth grade, then in the seventh grade I started using tumblr. You know all those things that teenagers use if you’re reading this you know like what I mean and I found I stumbled upon. The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, and I was shocked like I was stunned by these girls. I I know it’s not the best example. You know it can get a little bit unhealthy to set them as a standard, but I’m not going to lie to you guys.

That’s what got me into modelling. First, I saw these beautiful women walking down the runway. Sorry, I have like a lot of Spada names. Just so it’s been um and being so confident and so beautiful and I was like damn I want to be this. I want to be this girl’s, I I don’t know like it wasn’t like only because they were so hot, but because of the confidence they showed. I don’t know so. I remember stumbling upon this when I was like 12, I was 12 and 7th grade actually because I skipped a grade.

So yes, I was told so I was reading this. I remember stumbling up on it and, like literally, there was no one at home that one day because my mom was like working, and so I was just like in my room reading. All these Pedroia secret fashion shows – and I was like – oh my god. This is so cool like I just want to walk down that runway, so the first thing I did was I went. I finished reading rain, I went to my mom’s closet and stole some shoes and use the hallway on my house and I just started practicing walking like as if I were in a runway and yeah.

I did that like that has really I don’t know. I did that for weeks like every single day when there was someone at home, I would just think put on my mom’s shoes and, like practice, my runway, which is so cute now that I think about it, but, along with that also came kind of the unhealthy Part of it that it was image, so, yes, I was, I started being more aware of what was attractive and what was not that’s when I I feel like for me.

That’s when I remember like noticing more of my flaws for the first time my flaws and trying to fix them. That included my hair. My face my skin, my body, especially my body, because I literally like ate McDonald’s with my dad every single week and I wasn’t living a healthy lifestyle. So I wasn’t fate, but I wasn’t fat. You know it was just skinny fat. If you know what I mean, so I was really insecure about that and well saying these want women like with these chiseled bodies that they probably prepared a lot for it, especially for that day, it kind of gave me not a bad example, but you know a That was a realistic um, especially for a thirteen-year-old, so I started um holding back on eating, I’m not going to say to start myself because I didn’t start myself, but I I was very like a low point where I just where I wanted to start myself.

I wanted to have an eating disorder because I wanted to lose weight and I I remember working out a fiscal day in my house reading some article from a YouTube blog that I made fitness articles and workout routines that was called Victoria’s Secret model ABS. I remember. Reading that article every single day and following it and to this day I have memorized that whole workout and I do it at the gym.

Like that’s what I do when I go to the gym, like I readed it so much for like two years straight. So anyways, that’s how I started getting into what would be physical appearance and modeling, and so I reach the point in my life, where I was where I started being more presentable to what’s to society presentable like straightening, my hair, because I have curly hair. You know my hair is really really curly, I’m not going to like where was kinda shitty um, not because it was curly, but because I didn’t ever like treat it well and I didn’t do my curls were out curls well, so I was just like phrase mess It was completely dead, so I started doing my hair.

I started doing a little bit of makeup here and there and I got to a point where I was like 1450 and I might third my makeup. Basically, every single day, almost almost every single day I mean first school. I did it like a lighter makeup. I still didn’t make up every single day and so yeah. I got to a point where I was I’m going to say I was attractive, but I don’t know it is that more voice or into me or whatever, and you know that’s like the most obvious way, like the most obvious validation you can get in school.

Like you know, boys start liking, you you’re like, maybe maybe I’m not that ugly. You know I didn’t actually use Instagram until I was like 14 15 because they didn’t have a good phone. So when I started actually using Instagram, that’s why I found Kylie Jenner that started this whole wave. I am 100 % a believer that kylie jenner started the in the body wave of you know the fade. I browsed the big lashes that liner the over lining the lips.

She started that, like I’m sorry, but she did you know it’s the theme. Does it the oh. I started following all these insta baddies and I was like oh my god, they’re so pretty, and something I noticed of these and some bodies is that I’m literally going to call that mr. Body is like here are some examples up in somebody’s. If you want to see what I mean so something I notice about these antibodies that I have never noticed before on you know, girls that I looked up to is that these as the baddies had my skin color, and I know that sounds stupid, like their models Are black? There are models that are Hispanic.

You know like you’re, not you know the only one. You know they’re, not the only ones with this skin color, but they were getting so much attention and they had my skin color. They had my physical features of having a small nose. Having you know, foolish lips, you know and they were being priests for that. So I was like damn like Jesus. I should give it a try. You know you should start posting these pictures and you know um.

So my makeup, like them – and you know so you see what’s up and so I started posting pictures of me. I remember posting the first one. It was actually a boomerang. I was are more and more, and I reached out to pages that eventually featured me on their page. You know like like they were all cause like Maddie, Betty slay or like girls slay, or something like that. But I reached out to a couple literally, not too many and in no time pages that followed those pages were posted me and dad grew up to me having a bigger following um as time went by so with that being said, there were a lot of pictures Of my face on my Instagram and I had and I had a good following maybe like at that point I could have had like 10,000 followers, which is not a lot, but you know it has the K next to it, and you know people notice that at The beginning, I didn’t like get noticed by anyone in my country or anything like that.

Like I didn’t know anyone to be honest, I didn’t know anyone. I was in a school where no, it’s not like a big school in the country, so I didn’t have like you know. I, my friends were literally my friends from school and I stuck to that. My dad actually owned a theater where he and he rented it to like people who wanted to do events in their theater and he rented it to a lot of people that wanted to give lessons like acting lessons or modeling lessons.

And so this girl came and she was like: hey, I’m going to be renting your space for modeling class, so yeah I laughed, and that was like. Oh I’m going to tell my daughters, so they can show your class if they’re interested and at this point I’ve only done like literally pictures on my phone for Instagram, like literally selfies for Instagram, like I had no experience modeling whatsoever, though I was like okay, like I was a little scared, but I still decided to go and I went to these lessons they weren’t.

To be honest. They weren’t that great, like they were basic stuff. You know it was fun. I got to meet a lot of people, but you know it’s really basic, but I realized that he loved modeling, I loved, posing in front of a camera. I only got to do one shoot that wasn’t paid. It was just like a test shoot, and so it was fine. I kept posting on Instagram like I was doing my thing whatever so time goes by.

I was in a new school by this point. You know making my friends whatever um and I got a message from a big photographer and this photographer. He worked with models that were in the big ass agency. I wanted to join and so he was like hey. I love your face. I think you wouldn’t look great in my pictures. Do you want to shoot – and I was like? Oh my god, this dude is asking me to shoot with him like this is my biggest dream like this? Is this is my time to shine as my tempted to do it? You know don’t make it.

He also had like a lot of a lot of followers and like a lot of context, of course I was excited because then you know each of this would get to see me and his fade. You know I would have something to start my portfolio because I didn’t have any content for it. So I went to that shoot and I remember um. You know going with my dad meeting him. You know – and I remember packing a huge, a suitcase like the one.

I’m packing right now to go to Paris. For a week I packed a suitcase of that size, full of outfits for my shoot with him. This guy’s name is Joseph bad he’s one of my best friends now look how far a meeting yes, Oh mother, going anyways! I was so excited to shoot with him, and you know the first food was cute. It was nice, you know he was super sweet, so yeah it was fun. I got my pictures and not long after that.

I got message by two different agencies, but one of them contacted me, tell me: hey: we want to meet you so come to this meeting, we’re going to have with oliver models, and so we can get to see you, and so I was like ok. So I went to that meeting. The other agency was just ready to sign me and this agency was like. Okay, like great, it was nice meeting you. I went to the meeting whatever I went back home and the other agency wanted to sign me.

So I went to like a trial first class because they also did like lessons like modeling classes, along with acting and other things. So I really like that dynamic that I was like very wholesome just to put it in words: um. I was really nice and then the other agency that met up with me before was like a so. We loved you we’re ready to sign you and I was like ooh sorry, I’m in another agency like too late, you’re too so join this other agency and I didn’t sign a contract.

Thank God not because the agency is a bad agency. I don’t want to talk about it because it it’s a good agency for people who don’t just want a model. That’s a good agency for people who have musical talents want to act, want to do different things, and I just I just didn’t, feel comfortable doing those things, and so I started feeling uncomfortable in that agency, and I one day I just told my agent, like hey, I’m sorry, I don’t think this is the right path for me.

Um, I’m not looking for this kind of you know education per se and to go to these classes. I had to travel like two hours a day, just to take lessons that I really wasn’t interested in taking and he saw that the other agency was actually doing a lot more modeling work and this past agency. I was and didn’t give me like a single job. I was just doing shoots here and there like test shoots, that they didn’t even find me that I had to find myself like it was just kind of messy.

So I just decided to switch to the other agency and they were more than happy to have me and welcome me to the agency, and it was just literally called the agency and it’s the agency guys like it’s. How much I started losing interest in that big. Other agency that I was interested in, I want to be in an agency that actually wants me, and I don’t want to be like you know, begging them to. Please sign me like please like no, like.

I want an agency that loves me. That was the best for me, like that’s why I love my agency so much so yeah. That’s how I got into the agency, I’m on the agency, I’m in they. They started, giving me jobs. I had my first paint modeling job through the agency and it just grew from there. I started going to shoots – maybe every almost every single week, if I wasn’t in she was, was in modeling classes or a job like literally you name it every single week.

I was doing something related to modeling before I came here to Hungary now, that’s how I started modeling. So in summary, I shot with one of the biggest photographers in my country and got signed to an agency that followed me and yeah. That’s how it happened. I think a lot of it also had to do with my Instagram. I don’t want to be like. I don’t want to discredit anyone for this process because it’s honestly it’s just like a mixture of everything, but I think a big part of it that some people don’t have or don’t mention or I don’t know – maybe don’t have it all and it’s my Instagram.

I think I worked a lot on branding myself, putting my face out there trying to be constant with my content. Only post good quality content um, you know trying to get my following up, so I could get more noticed and I think that helped a lot and the process of my agency finding me, because I’m not sure they found me through the photographer or through my Instagram, But either way the photographer found me through my Instagram, so it just all leads back to my Instagram and the image I started to give to the world.

That’s why I love Instagram so much, even though it does have you know it’s shady things. It also gives you a lot of opportunities to brand yourself, and you know just do whatever you want, literally literally, it’s not even only modeling, like with anything literally it with anything if you’re a doctor, and you want to grow your business and you have a really Good social media platform that I know I have examples, two examples actually from doctors in my country that are probably the most famous Plastic Surgeons and that’s because of their Instagram and their social media, like literally nothing else, nothing else like that’s literally what made them so Big, I mean, of course you know.

Their work is good and you know they can and it, but they have their like household names in my country for plastic surgeons, because they have been recognized due to their social media. I think social media I mean I could make a whole different article about social media branding yourself, but I think it is like a really big part that I don’t want to overlook so yeah so yeah that was uh. That was a little bit of me explaining how we started modeling, and I’m just going to tell you guys a little bit of what I’m doing here.

I’m not going to go into depth about my exchange year, my exchange year here in Hungary, because that is a topic of its own. Actually, when coming here, I didn’t expect to model at all, because European modelling European agencies only look for girls who are really really tall and as much as I wish, I were 180, I’m not I’m not 180 and I will never be 180. I’m 170, I’m not sure, because it just kind of fluctuates depending on who’s measuring me, but I’m 170, and so I went to this agency that contacted me here in Hungary and really character short sorry.

We can’t give you any jobs and I was like okay bye. Oh yeah, that’s basically what happened here! I’m hungry I’m not going to model here, because modelling European modeling is just not for me so yeah to kind of conclude. I just wanted like to tell you guys if you want a model, what you should do, because I know not let me play with the hair, because I know that not everyone is going to want to you know brand there’s the themselves in Instagram.

Without you know, having anything for sure you know it’s, I understand it might be a little bit intimidating and embarrassing to make your profile public and just start posting pictures of her face and, like your body like I know, it’s, not normal. Okay, no, I know it’s not normal trust me, but if you really want to model, I think what you should do is just look for photographers that are starting out photographers.

This is what I saw. Everyone who asked me how to start modeling look for photographers. It can be really good photographers reach out to them or really not bad but photographers that are just starting. You know and just say, hey like um. I I want to do a test shoot like what do you but Downey. I can see that you’re really a meal. I can don’t say that I can see that you’re starting off with your photography page and I’m starting off with modeling.

So maybe we can collaborate. It would be great if you have some pictures of you. Generally Polaroid Euler rates like this, just like that and send them, you can see them with a phone and send them to them. Like hey. I don’t have my profile public, but this is what I look like if you’re interested um, let me know, and just start off by shooting with photographer, so you have content to present to agencies when the time comes.

I think I think it’s really important to have a lot of experience, um, good or bad experience. I think works it’s good to have a big portfolio. It’s it’s good to know how to get used to a camera. I think it’s good to you know, learn a little bit of how it’s going to be. You know, if you’re, actually in the real modeling world um, you know you kind of get like a little taste of it. You know when you do a test shoot with it with a photographer and once you have this portfolio, you can send it to agencies basically anywhere anywhere in the world.

Thanks technology, you can send your pictures to local agencies that you know about or international agencies. I don’t know I’ve said my portfolios to international agencies. Many many times. I’ve not been accepted to any so far, but I’ve done it, and that is good. Rejection is good. Okay, rejection helps, rejection, helps y’all. Rejection is good, it’s good experience, believe it or not. I’m going to kind of stuck something at the beginning.

You know until you’re too short. You know that sucks, but it’s good. It keeps you going it’s like it hasn’t taken me aback, like I’m. Still, I’m still trying a contract. I’ve gotten rejected since that one time I asked that boy to be my boyfriend and he said no and look at me now h-huh also. I think it’s good to be aware that there are certain types of modeling that certain people won’t be able to do like.

For example, me I can’t do European modeling whatsoever high-fashion model. I can’t do that because I’m literally a midget to them I mentioned to them. I was a tallest girl in my class back in Costa Rica, but to them I’m a midget, so I think if you have a body type or a height, that is basically not fitting into certain types of modeling. I’m not saying don’t go for it. You know who knows about my work or not, I’m just saying try to find your niche and what actually works for you and what actually will be good business for you.

For example, if you’re like me, don’t go looking for a high-fashion job because you’re not going to get them, and it’s not that you’re not good enough. It’s simply. They already have these standards for a reason for the designers to create clothes. I mean yes, sir human, being with thoughts and personality, but your job is to show off clothes high fashion designers, especially you know they make the clothes set on a standard which is more practical to them, to make them all the same size, and they can all.

You know they can all have like a row of pictures of models. I mean like that Dad that that they know it’s going to fit them. You know what I mean with that being said. If you’re like me, which is exactly what I do, is look for commercial jobs like anything commercial, I can be like swimsuit bikini modeling. It can be literally ads fast fashion, look books, I don’t know so many things literally so many things and on the other hand, if you are tall as hell and you have a really interesting phase and by interest I mean not the beauty standard.

Interestingly, no, it’s not like the beauty center, pretty like an interesting face with interesting features. Maybe you have one eye here and one right here and your face is full of freckles or you have like a white spot here then go for that high-fashion and go for that crazy modeling, because that’s what’s going to make you money, that’s the modeling that going To work for you just because you’re, not the beauty standard, app, every misogynist man in this world doesn’t mean you can model.

Also, if you’re really really short, there is something called petite modeling, that’s for short people. Girls who are short it exists, it is. It is a business, there are so many types of modeling. You guys that you know I can make a whole article about them, but anyways yeah. That’s the point. The point is yes, I think everyone, I think, not everyone. I think most people have the body and the appearance to fit themselves in a niche.

I don’t think anyone can model, though, because it’s not an easy job. I know a lot of people think telling you you just pose in front of the camera, but I’ll see you deal like it’s not a hard, but it actually is super. Exhausting I’ve literally entered jobs at 7 a.M. And had to leave at 7 p.M. Without being able to sit down for a second or even have time to eat, because I’ve been working like it’s, not it’s literally exhausting it’s literally physically and mentally exhausting another thing.

It’s prefer to mention, if you know, there’s like a local agency, that’s doing no bloom, it’s doing an open, casting or an open call or whatever just go can go. I if you have the slightest interest in modeling or have ever been told. Oh my god. Do you model, or oh, my god, you should model then go to godmother in casting dude like who’s, stopping you like. What do you have to lose? Nothing go to the casting.

Please please go please go even if you got rejected getting rejected is good. Go to the casting okay go to the casting. I can’t stress enough. I have so many friends that I’m like do it. You should be a model like dude you’re literally. You literally have everything it takes to make it in this business, but there’s so shy to go into a casting or to send their pictures to an agency that they will never do it because they’re they literally are holding themselves back.

So don’t hold yourself back if you’re interested in it give it a try. It’s not impossible stuff, a crazy dream, like literally making money off of modeling. I never thought I would do it. Never. You think me at 12 years old, with the lowest self-esteem getting rejected by every way my class. Do you think I ever thought that I would get money of a what I looked like, never dude number, nine years, never its I’ve been filming for 40 minutes.

Jesus Christ, okay, so I’m going to be finishing the article now, thank you guys so much for reading and sorry. This was kind of a chill sit-down article, not that funny, not that you know cold so yeah. Thank you guys so much for reading. If you like this article, please give it a thumbs up comment down below anything else. You would like to add to what I just said subscribe to my blog joy. The beautiful family of crackheads, who have going on here in YouTube, also turns let’s post notifications.

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