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Today I was reminded of how in 2021 when I flew to Miami the first time in my life - this hater deliberately excluded me from the group dinner and didn’t assign my hotel room as a member of the group, and how shite that was. $348 at the Good Time Hotel where everyone was vibing together vs $1500 at Mister Cs where I had booked a room for myself. I knew that the rest of the group was staying at the goodtime hotel but I had not yet received my email confirmation. Not wanting to miss the conference. I booked a room at Mr. C’s just in case and I got on that flight to get myself to Miami - really it was a huge expense to invest in a nascent cryptoart career. I thought for sure the email would come and I would have a room as I had been promised. But here’s what it was: after flying there to meet everyone, in my fancy dress at dinner time, no email came, and I ate dinner alone.
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Maxximillian.eth
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When I showed up at the event at the time on the itinerary (9P)) and saw all the empty food plates on the table was when I realized I’d been deliberately told to arrive after the dinner—the nonsensical waste and hurt stunned me. The entire reason I flew there was to have dinner with everyone and meet all the other artists. Excluded again. It was my first NFT event. As a featured artist, I was supposed to have had a seat at the table. Instead, I was told to come after everyone had eaten, and bonded. Not a great start to my time in the space. But I would never let one jealous girl scare me away from an entire career vertical. Fast forward to 2024 and I still find myself excluded from things. It still stuns. But it’s teaching me too. Things like who and what friends actually are and what professional allies look like. There’s been a lot to compare and contrast that I’m processing. 🧭 Navigating with my Starlink going forward, but one thing won’t change: I’ll still be the one with bells on.
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I tell these stories publicly from time to time because this shit happens and it’s a terrible feeling, and just imagine I’m a relatively strong person with a generally good sense of self-worth and this really hurts me very deeply so I can only imagine how something like this could affect some other person when I find it myself extremely hurtful. Being excluded feels like people people don’t care whether or not I survive. And that’s not me being a sensitive human, humans are wired to rely upon each other. It’s why we create civilizations because we can survive better together. So literally when people exclude me, I feel like they don’t care if I live or die. There are a lot of things about myself that I can change, there are a lot of things about the world that I can change, but there are some truths that however, painful it’s better to face . My friend, legendary music producer reminded me that I go through all these hard experiences so that I have things to sing about .
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