Naturalle Drea

So recently online I’ve been seeing the discourse about if your friends should support you if you create content and I wanted to talk it about. I’ve seen a lot of think pieces, essays, arguments and many different options on this topic and it seems like a very sensitive one. A lot of people seem to think that no matter what you do, your friends should support you and on the other hand I’ve seen that your friends are not your target audience and they don’t have to. I’ve seen people saying stop crying and complaining about it, those people aren’t your friends or that you need to put out better content for your friends to support. I know, a lot but my thoughts on this…

I’ve been creating content for a long time and it came from a place where I needed something for myself. I just started doing it and continued building each year. Years ago I used to get so angry because my friends and family didn’t support what I did and I didn’t understand it at first. There was a time a brand reached out for me to do a giveaway with a product and I texted my “friends” at the time telling them about the giveaway and asking them to enter in and I got basically “why” from one of them and the other one said she would but saw that she didn’t enter. It was really disappointing at the time because it seems like I was in one sided supported friendship at the time and didn’t realize it.

I guess I’m different because whatever you are doing, I’ll support it and be there if I can. Now if you’re doing something very illegal, then I’m not getting behind that lol but other than that I’ll be there in the capacity that I can. The topic of friendships comes up a lot for me and it’s something I’m trying to work through and figure out as an adult. I don’t know why friendships, especially as adults are so hard.

The short answer for me is yes, your friends should absolutely support you. I don’t understand why not. It’s weird that they are supportive in other aspects of your life except for certain things that are important to you. I’ve seen some friend groups online that publicly support each other and it’s heartwarming to see. And I’ve seen friendships end due to the lack of support.

I’ve learned along the way of this creator/blogger journey that many people I know or associate myself with in real life are not my target audience and I’ve learned to be okay with it. I had to let go of the anger towards it because I have an amazing online community that is very supportive. It just poses a question of can you still have a solid friendship if the full support is not there?