>>35952599Respecting your fans, not deliberately pissing them off, and figuring out a balance between doing what you want and meeting their expectations. Being someone who can talk them away from the blackpill and heal their doomerism while also acknowledging that it might not be a particular anon’s time yet to start improving themselves.
Encourage the ones who want to improve themselves, be there and be patient with the ones who aren’t ready yet. Filter schizos when you have to protect your own mental health, but be resilient enough to withstand some amount of gachi schizoposting.
Set high standards for yourself and strive to be better than your worst fans, but do so out of empathy and the desire to make other people enjoy spending time with you and not out of a superiority complex.
An idol is queen, priestess, and prophetess, and her goal should be to have her fans elevate themselves into kings, priests, and prophets for their own friends who need help. It’s an ideal that’s statistically impossible, but one that’s meant to help one visualize one’s goal rather than a literal objective to shoot for.
In other words, an idol should be an archetype of a healthy interpersonal relationship while not actually being a literal interpersonal relationship (because that’s being parasocial). An idol shouldn’t try to be perfect, because the perfect is the enemy of the good. She should just keep the idea of perfection in mind in order to avoid becoming complacent.
In other words, a good idol should make her followers feel like they’re following a miniature version of a cult, but with enough of a dose of reality thrown in here and there to remind them that it isn’t actually a cult.
It’s not easy, it’s not supposed to be easy, and no one expects an idol to get all that down perfectly. As long as there’s a clear trajectory upwards and you show enough humility to learn from your mistakes, you will be respected. Frankly, I think it’s probably easier if you don’t call yourself an idol unless you have outside assistance to tardwrangle you at the start (an agency).
If this was meant to be a baitpost, then I must have fucked up. Hopefully someone got something out of this shitty essay, though.
