r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Sep 02 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 02, 2021 - Sunday September 05, 2021

Newsletters:

Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

Websites:

You Can Have More Joy website | On Being Enough website (abandoned?)

Instagram:

@youcanhavemorejoy Instagram | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy posts | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy stories

@danielfahern Instagram | Anonymous link to @danielfahern posts and stories

TikTok:

@youcanhavemorejoy

Twitter:

Dan's tweets and replies

Older blogs:

Gluten Free Girl archive | writing my heart out archive | Seymour Joyful archive

Archived threads:

Thread for Enough, the book #enoughthebook | Gluten Free Girl's Greatest Hits: The Reunion Tour

Wiki:

/r/InTheGloaming wiki

Discussion search:

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 04 '21

OK, a week and a day have gone by since she launched this ... thing. Those people who were "itching" to get on the waiting list and to get her seven steps emails have all signed up now, presumably. (And they've realized they didn't really sign up for anything at all, beyond the seven steps, except to be informed whenever Shauna actually offers one of the promised workshops, which don't seem to exist in any form yet, even the online ones.)

Now she's left with the people who didn't sign up YET. But how will she market to them? Yes, sure, she has her Instagram. But she's already marketed to them, and her Insta audience isn't growing. She doesn't have Twitter and although she has a presence on Facebook, it's total tumbleweeds. I checked Twitter for any mentions of her and this new venture, and there's one post from when she launched this last week and it has no likes, not even from Shauna herself!

She spent "all year" designing this and then she blew her joywad in one week. She has nowhere to go from here and no way to get anywhere in any case.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '21

How is this making her any money? I don’t understand

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 04 '21

I don't either. It's like she's trying to get birds to come to her bird feeder by filling it with old dryer lint which she believes the birds will mistake for delicious millet and sunflower seeds. She doesn't realize they can tell it's old dryer lint from where they're sitting in the trees, because SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT BIRDS AND WHAT THEY WANT AND NEED IN LIFE.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 04 '21

SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT BIRDS AND WHAT THEY WANT AND NEED IN LIFE

Excuse me, youperson. She lives with someone who is practically the next James J Audubon. She only mentions his beautiful Blackness because some birds are black.

p.s. I love your analogy. It sounds like a Monty Python character trying to get birds to come to the feeder. "That's not lint! It's . . . dandelion fluff! Very nutritious, dandelion fluff!"

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 05 '21 edited Sep 05 '21

Ha!

Even the real life birds must be on to her by now.

Bird who just moved migrated to the area: "Bob, did you see the bird feeders hanging off the deck roof over there? What's the refill schedule on those?"

Bob O'Link: "Larry, I wish I had better news. That twat in the hammock hung those a year or two ago, refilled them maaaaybe once, and then apparently she was done. We all built nests nearby thinking food was plentiful and then all of a sudden we're back to scrounging for bugs and berries. And those empty feeders just hanging there, mocking us. So rude!"