Eria HummingBird

As you may know, the art world is now an industry, and music or cinema can’t escape that classification. I’m an independent artist and I consider myself more as a craftsman 👨‍🔧 than as a salesman. The only problem of wishing to be a craftsman is that I’m not a content creator who releases a new track every week, in hope of keeping their followers and fans engaged 🤳. In reality, it’s quite the opposite: I’m a passionate music producer who, humbly, wishes to release qualitative tracks and be an added-value to the music world 🎙. The downside of this is that I’m invisible for the algorithms of social media platforms (all of them), and thus I’m losing in visibility 👀 You can guess what I’m gonna say now: to lose visibility on those platforms = to lose visibility on streaming platforms (such as Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube to name a few!), because you’ll only find me after playing detectives 🕵️‍♀️ = to have little streams on my tracks = to have near nonexistent royalties (in average 0,40€ per month, being a millionaire is far away I’m afraid 😂). For now, I can’t sell my albums, EP and singles on CD because it cost too much, and since I’m not doing any concerts, nobody would buy them 😅. I also know that, today, nobody buys the digital version of an album on streaming platforms 🎵, with the exception of the big artists of course, like Ed Sheeran, Orelsan, or Angèle (#exception 2: fans wanting to support their favorite artists, such as Spider Zed, Ivy XO, or Clovis). I could say “Please buy my tracks 💿”, because I would be paid more than with streams, that’s for sure. However I have a problem with that: when you do that you’re not really the owner of the album you paid for 💸! In short: the digital album you bought is linked to the platform where you bought it (e.g. Apple Music), and if someday this platform disappears, pouf ☁, your album disappears too even though you paid for it! (That’s what we call DRM, Digital Rights Management, for those who might be interested.) That’s why I decided to open a Ko-Fi for those of you who would want to support me financially 💰. I want this support to be based on volunteering 🙋‍♀️: just like I won’t force you to listen to my music if you don’t like it, I won’t blame you if you don’t support me financially (you can help me through other means: stream, like, follow, share… 😉). But, well, let’s be honest – a little something would be greatly appreciated 🙏. Know that if you’re 2 to tip me 50€ that’s amazing, but if you’re 70 to tip me 1€, that’s even better (for both you and I)! I believe that together we’re stronger 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧. I want to believe that if you like what I produce, you’ll be satisfied to know that you helped me finance my work time so I could continue to create new tracks! ✌ As GaGzZz, a French independent gaming YouTuber, would say: “If you support me, you do it for the content”. Know that if you tip even only 1€, you’ll be the majority shareholder of my music, and that’s crazy! 🌞

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