Balancing Social Media Stardom: The Struggle with Live Streaming and Monetization

As somebody who has quite a large following on TikTok, one thing I cannot do is get with the live business. I just can’t do lives. It’s like, now it’s a job. Now it’s officially a job. If I’m. If I have to be on live and I have to be talking to people every night, it’s officially a job now. And then it’s not fun anymore. This is like, you have to set up the camera, you have to set up everything, and then you. Then you have to go, I can’t do that. And don’t get me wrong, I hear a lot of creators are. Are, um, you know, earning a lot of income from lives. And I think social media in the future will go towards more streaming, because this is gonna be like Ready Player One. If you ever seen that movie before. It’s a movie basically where, you know, everybody exists and lives in the virtual world. And I think that already exists in, you know, the presence of social media. But I cannot do lives all day, all night. Can’t do it, brother. No, don’t get me wrong. I have a friend who’s a creator, and he makes a lot of money from lives. But, you know, I’ve always had the mindset that I work to live, not live to work. So I’m enough frightened for money. Still, the money. I got caught. I rather post and, you know, you guys entertain. You guys And dance and do the things that I love. But being on live every single day, every waking minute to get a money gun. Yo, I’m good, B. I don’t know, man. That’s a little bit too much for me. Sheesh. Even a live selling like TikTok Shop, you know, I make like $10,000 a month from TikTok Shop, you know, with my other pages. And it’s just like, now even TikTok Shop is pushing towards creators. They want creators to go on live and start live selling, because they want you to, like, sell the product. Like, hey, look at the product. This is the product. Buy the product. Look at the product. Get it now. Buy the product. Look at the product. Get it now. I cannot do that. Social media is supposed to be social. I’ll battle somebody, but I don’t even understand that. I don’t know. I think it’s beginning to leave me now, haha. Oh, why? I can’t do lives all day, all night. Are you insane? I wanna watch my TV shows. I watch out, though. I watch out. I don’t even watch lives, honestly, but I watch, you know. I don’t know. I’m just chatting