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by chadgpt3 21 days ago
Filming a DJ
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I just focused on how the work of DJ is reduced to "twiddling USB controller". But if you want to dig into that filming part, let's goo, because it's at best irrelevant and at worst harmful.

Irrelevant because if you are NOT filming you don't magically become people participating in art which is what that comment is about. You don't expect people at a show to play.

Harmful because if you ask any real musician or event organizer who's not very famous already, filming & posting and tagging is probably the biggest way to support them that you can do as audience. On par with actually coming to the show. For two reasons, it spreads word of mouth to people's followers and it gives musician/venue promo material. I chatted with many performers after events and they are always grateful for this.

And anyway literally no one pays ticket money to spend the entire show fimling. No one wants to be unpaid video guy. People film some bits to post and then hang out with others which is why they're there. Grifters who actually film entire shows hoping to earn more money than they spent on the ticket are annoying but very rare and they only go to already famous performers.