Karl wrote:Wrathy wrote:One thing that is weird though is that within the Pokemon Cards community I'm becoming a little bit recognisable, which means people approach me to talk about the things I write on the internet (twitter / articles / tournament results generally). Those conversations are hard to react to and I'm never sure how to navigate them lol.
I guess it's probably helpful to start to distinguish between
Wrathy the person and
Wrathy the Pokemon cards playing Internet persona. Obviously it's a super blurry line, but those people are approaching you as your Internet persona, a content creator within that community, and they probably want you to speak in the "voice" you use for those articles and analyses. (At least at first -- obviously if you befriend them you can relax and be a person again.) You may well soon have fans (if you don't already!) and it's probably healthy to put that degree of separation between you and them.
Honestly I would hope it doesn't come to that; my brand as an internet person isn't really that strong. I have a Twitter account with around 260 followers, which is growing fairly steadily, and I wrote one article, but I'm not hugely putting myself out there in videos, podcasts, tournament results etc (at the moment, anyway). I also don't really play up to much of a 'character'; I try to be pretty consistent in how I feel and think with what I write and how I act. Though that can be pretty tough sometimes and I get super tilted in particular scenarios like a bad matchup of decks or absolutely gooseberry fool draws causing me to lose (which actually affected me so strongly I felt I had to apologise to one opponent in Nashville after the game...). Generally though I like to think I'm the same online and offline. I'm fairly sure if I was separating my personality like that, it would lose some of the authenticity and down to earth qualities which I've treated as essential from day 1.
But who knows. Maybe this all takes off and goes batshit insane this season. It'll be fun to find out.