TikTok Fame
Within the last few months or so, I’ve been getting traction on my TikTok account for telling people where they actually need to go to party in Baltimore City. The premise of my content is that the city is small so you have to follow the popular people around.
A newly found downside to this is that you will, unfortunately, be partying with the same people every spot you go to. For someone like me, who works with these people, it’s not a problem at all. But I could see the commoner being over it. But honestly, OH WELL lol I don’t really care that deeply. People are so hard to please (especially on TikTok) and that is a story for another day.
Tiktok, and many other platforms, have given a voice to the small and unheard. I’ve found a few TikTok artists that I love, Baltimore songs that may have went over my head, and even some throwback songs my mama never put me on to.
ZaeFyeHunnit (The guy who sounds like Fab)
Do or Die - Do U?
Yeat & Don Toliver - Heavy stunts
BC Tae - Back 2 Back
I’ve even noticed that a lot of songs on TikTok that I kept on tuck are exposed and why I’m mad?! LOL that’s crazy.
From a marketing standpoint, TikTok has shown me how and why rich, successful people give that generic ass advice like “never give up” and “how you do anything is how you do everything”. By the way some of those sayings make me feel like shit lol but maybe that’s the point so you can step your game up. Backwards, I know. See, my problem is that I think I’m supposed to do one thing forever, but successful people keep trying to do new things over and over. Take for instance Carlmichael “Stokey” Cannady, one of Baltimore’s public figures. Do ya’ll ever think about how Stokey has a corner store, Silk’s Sports Bar, and now a McDonalds? When I worked with him, I was told he works in marketing and he was running for Mayor. Yes, I was very confused. But now I understand that true marketers, business professionals, entrepreneurs can do anything, and should. And you just apply them generic ass rich-people principles to whatever your thing is at the time. It’s like those people when you ask, “what do you do for a living?” and they say, ”my best.”
So, while nightlife TikTok is my jam right now, I’m excited to see what this morphs into and just let alone open to how it may redirect my path. Have you ever seen that clip of Kelis saying she’s just dope and doesn’t fit into a box? She was married to one of the finest, flyest men walking this Earth and is now a farmer. Like what the heck. THAT’S the goal. THAT’s living.
I now have a career consultant who I am hoping will take place as my fairy-corporate godmother and steer me down a magical path of perfect jobs, perfect bosses, and perfect opportunities that make me a billionaire within the next 6-12 months. Yes, a true fairytale. However, we talk about nightlife and Tiktok and things I like— all things I never seen as a career for me or something to expand in. But she’s now encouraged me to be optimistic to anything that I’m good at and the best version of myself (for the most part lol) when doing it.
So for anyone trying to figure out their thing whether it’s Tiktok, music, events, or selling a new product, just do your best! Don’t worry about pleasing everyone because I can never get the nightlife recommendations for the 40 and over right! They got a problem with everything.