Conversation With The Cool Kid

I've backspaced too many times, I need to write something. I need to tell this story.

A couple weeks back Asher Roth tweeted a rather controversial subject.
In an attempt to make a joke he refered to the Don Imus incident where he called the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team some, "nappy headed hoes". Not Cool! Not Right!
So why did Asher Roth repeat that?
Now, I'm not about the actual Don Imus incident, thats long and gone and his reputation is no more. It's the power of the message, the power of the internet. How and what Asher Roth said got misconstrude and offended a lot of people.
Asher Roth not Don Imus.

Asher Roth unknowingly touched a nerve, what he thought was a joke did not make a lot of people smile.

I'm trying to make a comparison here between Asher Roth and myself and this will probably be the only time I ever make. How a joke can explode over the internet and recieve so many responses from so many people.
It was Asher Roth's Twitter Status, it was my Facebook Status.

Now, I been doing this blog thing since the end of last year. Took a break and am now back on it! I wanted to tell people, show people that HEY I'm doing this - CHECK IT OUT!
Well... More like this really:

help me achieve my target of 25 new followers by the end of this month... no catch, no gimmicks, no fee! just read the blog: http://lemelp.blogspot.com/ .... or else!

day 2 of the target 0 followers... 525 facebook friends and not 1 of you bastards are following my blog... but you continue to write on my wall, text me, ring me and say hi on campus. WASTE! its not even that bad... 25 by the end of this month its NOT a lot!http://lemelp.blogspot.com/

day 3, 9 followers. THANK YOU LOU WOOD! THEO ROWLEY! KILLA KAM! all the rest of you people are letting me down... 525 friends and all im asking is for 25 followers. how is that a big demand! like i said yesterday: you continue to write on my wall, text me, ring me and say hi on campus. WASTE! its not even that bad... 25 by the end of this month its NOT a lot! http://lemelp.blogspot.com/

DAY 3 - 9 FOLLOWERS THANK YOU LOU WOOD! THEO ROWLEY! KILLA KAM! all the rest of you people are letting me down...... big time! 525 friends and all im asking is for 25 followers. how is that a big demand! http://lemelp.blogspot.com/ thankyou and goodnight!

Right?
Wrong! As I later came to find out that hindsight is truly a brilliant thing.
I explicity said what I wanted to achieve but the way I went about it was so wrong. In barraging people with the link and my demand, calling people out, I forgot those who already read my blog and enjoy it. Those who since day one have expressed an interest in what new and brilliant thing I am doing. And while I am so grateful for the new followers I have, how I got them to follow was.... not the right way.

Now... It takes a lot for me to admit I'm wrong and concede as I am. So I'm going to defend myself while I prosecute myself.
Adverstising is everywhere these days. Every company and brand trying to sell, you the consumer their product. In your face adverts, overt adverts all trying to distract you from the competition and focus you on their product.
Advertising has to be unique has to grab you. When I turn on the TV its more than likely that I will be in the middle of an advert than an actual programme and even more so the advert is SO far off the product that you are drawn to it even more.
Adverts have to grab you! Publicity is key if you want to promote who you are!
Way back when I used to work for JumpOff.Tv in their Street Team I learnt that you have to grab people. Giving out flyers and trying to sign people up is not easy and you have to really be unique and explosive in order to get that name and number for the info sheets and make sure that flyer you gave them won't end up on the floor.
So with my blog I wanted to do the same.
PUT IT OUT THERE! PUT IT IN YOUR FACE! MAKE YOU READ IT!

But "You can't make people read it like that!".
This is what the conversation with the Cool Kid taught me. In wanting to 'make all my goals for the future come tonight' Drake - Where to Now.
For a second I totally forgot why I am doing this....
I realise that my blog is not BIG I'm no Kanye, Highsnobiety, Marcus Troy or Complex Magazine. I would LOVE to be like those guys. But more so, I want this blog to be a great read and I want it to reflect me. I want people to find it on their own accord and with a little help from me.
It needs to speak for itself and it can't really rely on me pushing it out there the wrong way.

Conversations with the Cool Kid soon turned to Conversations with The BF.
If this is really my blog then it needs to be unique, it needs to be original.