Dr. Julie Smith

Yeah, I mean, it's a great question.

I think when it comes to the content and making content, I realized that there was a specific moment actually when there was some video that had loads and loads of comments in it.

And I was scrolling through the comments and I was skimming past all these lovely, lovely comments.

Where's the shitty one?

Yeah, I realized I'm looking for anyone who's not okay with me or what I've said.

And it was just this moment of awareness where I had to go...

No.

And we're done.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No more scanning through comments and stuff like that.

And so as a result, I now don't often spend much time in that kind of area or, you know, responding to those kind of things.

What is that?

where maybe we've given the game away like we've shown the bad part that we didn't want to is that what we're doing yeah and if you have any kind of uh core beliefs around not being enough in any way which which most of us has something along those lines then the fear is someone is going to spot that or something about it and vocalize that you know in the comments or whatever and and and

So you're looking for the person who's going to say the thing that you most want to hide or you most don't want people to say.

And then it reconfirms that belief.

And so it's so distressing when it happens.

And so for me, when it comes to the content stuff, I would deliberately not spend time doing that stuff.

But also I kind of had to reassess, why am I doing this?

I'm not doing it for social validation.