If we had to pick one Aussie artist to serve as a model for doing social media right, it would have to be Allday. The young emcee’s presence across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram is godlike and has helped him cultivate an obsessed fan base around the country.
However, maintaining the kind of intimate contact with fans that Allday does can have its drawbacks. Sure, it’s all fun and games when you’re penning a hilarious open letter to Aussie hero Shannon Noll or owning a troll by rapping over his fart (no, really).
But having an essentially wide-open channel direct to you can result in some head-scratching communiqués, and when your fans think that all that matters to you is your social media metrics, they can start to treat you like sort of a, um, prostitute.
The Adelaide rapper recently took to his official Facebook page to share a few select messages he receives on a daily basis with his more than 200,000 followers, answering the question for anyone who’s ever thought, “I wonder what it would be like to be Allday?”
Apparently, a day in the life of Allday involves fielding questions from fans who are interested to see how much social media karma it would take for him to shave off his trademark long hair. “Hey Allday, how many likes for you to cut off all your hair?” is a typical missive.
"I wonder what it would be like to be Allday?"
Posted by Allday onThursday, March 17, 2016
However, things go beyond asking the emcee to get the clippers out. Apparently, some Allday fans are really into the idea of watching the rapper eat faeces. Whether his own or a fan’s, Allday followers really want to see him do a ‘2 Girls 1 Cup’.
Other highlights of Allday’s Messenger archive include questions about how many likes it would take to engage in a sexual act with him or how many likes one particularly covetous fan would have to drum up in order to get an iPad Mini.
Perhaps now would be a good time to remind readers that Aussie musicians aren’t your whores and you can’t just offer them likes in exchange for performing for you like monkeys. Social media, it’s a double-edged sword, eh?
