My J111 Beat
I chose my beat to be Billie Joe Armstrong. He has been my inspiration since I was very little. When I was 11, I first found out a fan-made blogging site called Green Day Authority that had a surprising amount of information on Billie Joe and his bands. At 14 I made my first social media account on Green Day Authority.
Flashforward to 2019 and I have continued to follow Green Day Authority and continued my social media account as well as many others. I have virtually and physically met many friends.
In this current phase of my social media venture, I have been more consistent in posting than in my previous years. Many of my posts are currently reposts from Billie Joe’s own Instagram account. When posting, I collect pictures that are similar to each other such as family, selfies, or bands.
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I am using my old Instagram account american_idiota and new Tumblr account billieskid to post. I use Content Studio and Buffer but neither work as well as I would like.
Neither of them can post the hashtags on Tumblr the format the social platform has. Instead, it inserts it into the text rather than below where the hashtags are supposed to be. For Instagram, the text/ caption I attach to my photo does not get properly copied onto my actual Instagram account. Lastly, these social media platforms are made to post multiple pictures/media to one post but the scheduling tools do not allow me to post multiple things possibly because they are the free versions.
To elaborate, I made this gif that works well on Tumblr but is unable to upload to Instagram (or Medium). Moreover, since I have to manually go back to the post and add hashtags, my posts get very little to no traction.
This limits the amount of content I can create because it is not compatible on multiple platforms. In continuing this project, I will strive to make content that is compatible on multiple platforms and follow more influencers in my topic so that they can look at my posts and repost them.
