Are we doing enough to protect our online reputations, especially as people in the public eye

[DeeSurreyMusic]

I was having a conversation with someone in music recently, and it got me thinking about how artists and their teams manage reputational risk online.

In today’s climate, one tweet or an old post can resurface and spark backlash, sometimes enough to damage a career or cancel opportunities. It’s wild how fast it can happen, even for well-established names.

Are we doing enough to protect our reputations online?

Do you have any kind of process or system in place before something goes live? Or is it more reactive than proactive?

I have a potential solution. However, I'm curious how others in music are navigating this.

 

[daturetard]

Just don't ever say anything and theres nothing to hold against you lol
Sry for not helping

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

Do not emulate Katy Perry and you might have a good chance



Either that or embrace the Sex Pistols approach to public relations.
Whatever that was.

But in the end remember that all publicity is good publicity.

Thinking of the time John Lennon said the Beatles were bigger than Jesus

Keep smiling for the camera

 

[emkee_reinvented]

My Gouvernement should/ could learn from this site.
Overhear tell tales/ hoaxes and assumed misconduct s.
Are viewed by many, with many responses leading to true or false.
Or needs some broadening if its a based on misleading/ manipulation.

Of information, enough fact checker s here, that back up their claimes.
That certainly not something i ever saw in my Parlement.

IMo Bluelight is a fine example of a communal group.
Correcting one and another [quite] peacefully .
A good example for humanity.

So explain the connection with music, don t get what you mean.
All the sexual scandals that surface constantly ?
Which true or wishfully not, the former often the case.
Disclosed with a final answer.

Dancehall, knew bout Sean C. 10 years ago !

Maybe stop pursuing a career, will free from the FEAR.
If you got nothing to hide, protecting reputation is needless.

 

[deficiT]

Thinking of the time John Lennon said the Beatles were bigger than Jesus

That might be one of the worst all time, likely what got him killed

 

[JackARoe]

That might be one of the worst all time, likely what got him killed

"I think if I would have said TV is more popular than the Beatles I would have gotten away with it"

" I am not saying we are greater or better, comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing, I just said what I said and it was wrong or taken wrong and now all this"

I love saying that in the Lennon voice. I have a friend that can do it perfectly.

RIP John Lennon. Yes I am a fan.

 

[tryptakid]

I was having a conversation with someone in music recently, and it got me thinking about how artists and their teams manage reputational risk online.

In today’s climate, one tweet or an old post can resurface and spark backlash, sometimes enough to damage a career or cancel opportunities. It’s wild how fast it can happen, even for well-established names.

Are we doing enough to protect our reputations online?

Do you have any kind of process or system in place before something goes live? Or is it more reactive than proactive?

I have a potential solution. However, I'm curious how others in music are navigating this.

One of the reasons I try to maintain my same handle/screen name across multiple forums (tryptakid) is for accountability - I want people who see my posts here or on reddit or on erowid to recognize that it's the same, and hopefully foster a sense of trust in what I'm saying. I don't troll, I don't post things that I don't believe in or feel would reflect poorly if someone knew that this was me.

We can't unwrite the things that we may have posted about or commented about years ago. One of the things I realized early on in my relationship with online spaces was that everything you contribute can end up staying connected to you in a more permanent and searchable way than things that you do/say in your offline life. I also think that a benefit of having a written record of our online activity can provide an observer a record of your personal growth.

Let's say I was an edgy kid who posted an ugly joke on twitter a decade ago - something that at the time felt okay in the greater zeitgiest, but that aged really poorly. If I also demonstrated personal growth via the same username over time, showing some self-reflection and an indication that I was actively demonstrating that I recognized the ugly joke as something I no longer felt okay about, while still owning that I'd said it, anyone who is looking at my online persona will also be able to see that growth. If someone were to dredge that up and try to use it as evidence that I'm 'bad' or should be shamed, they would also be seeing that I'd done work to reflect and address that behavior in the years that followed.

I think it also means that we should be mindful of why the things we post are important. Not only could they come back to haunt us, they can also shape how we see the world. If I post a lot of negative/critical things - even just as jokes - they can help shape negative thought patterns and negative views about the world. This can also translate into how we act in other domains. This is how online cultures emerge into offline cultures, and how our online selves emerge into our offline self.

It's hard to do that as a young person - we can't undo the way we were when we were young and when the internet was young. We can only focus on who we are now and who we want to become.

 

[deficiT]

One of the reasons I try to maintain my same handle/screen name across multiple forums (tryptakid) is for accountability - I want people who see my posts here or on reddit or on erowid to recognize that it's the same, and hopefully foster a sense of trust in what I'm saying. I don't troll, I don't post things that I don't believe in or feel would reflect poorly if someone knew that this was me.

We can't unwrite the things that we may have posted about or commented about years ago. One of the things I realized early on in my relationship with online spaces was that everything you contribute can end up staying connected to you in a more permanent and searchable way than things that you do/say in your offline life. I also think that a benefit of having a written record of our online activity can provide an observer a record of your personal growth.

Let's say I was an edgy kid who posted an ugly joke on twitter a decade ago - something that at the time felt okay in the greater zeitgiest, but that aged really poorly. If I also demonstrated personal growth via the same username over time, showing some self-reflection and an indication that I was actively demonstrating that I recognized the ugly joke as something I no longer felt okay about, while still owning that I'd said it, anyone who is looking at my online persona will also be able to see that growth. If someone were to dredge that up and try to use it as evidence that I'm 'bad' or should be shamed, they would also be seeing that I'd done work to reflect and address that behavior in the years that followed.

I think it also means that we should be mindful of why the things we post are important. Not only could they come back to haunt us, they can also shape how we see the world. If I post a lot of negative/critical things - even just as jokes - they can help shape negative thought patterns and negative views about the world. This can also translate into how we act in other domains. This is how online cultures emerge into offline cultures, and how our online selves emerge into our offline self.

It's hard to do that as a young person - we can't undo the way we were when we were young and when the internet was young. We can only focus on who we are now and who we want to become.

I often have a cringe fest about things I've said online, including on here.

I'm like Jesus man wtf is wrong with you.

But you're right, the character arc is important.

 

[JackARoe]

One of the reasons I try to maintain my same handle/screen name across multiple forums (tryptakid) is for accountability

I did that too some years back. I question the wisdom of it for a time but glad I did. Now the boards are gone. Poppys.org, thekratomforum, entheogen.net, and drugs forum. (drugs forum may still be up but I am never there) So I am left as Jack here. I do wish the knowledge of those forums was still around. So much good info gone. At one point I wished I had not used the same name due to what you describe as following me. I like to think anytime I click send I know it can be read by anyone at anytime. I do think before I post these days.