New bassist gains her band thousands of new followers but gets kicked out after old bassist sees their newfound popularity and wants back in, so she sabotages them: ‘I started deleting followers (yes, one by one)’

Band drama is the worst, and, in this case, the drama hit them where it hurt the most: their online presence.

Unfortunately, in this day and age, you can't just be an artist who makes art and that's it. You also have to be a content creator. For some creatives, boasting about yourself online is complete torture. Isn't your art good enough to convince people to be interested? Nope. Sorry, it has to have an online presence now, too, or else it's not worth anything.

So when this girl was asked to join as the bassist of a band with her friends that she's been close with for over a decade, she said yes and immediately got to work on their brand. When she started, they hardly had any sort of online notoriety. However, after she started, they gained thousands of new followers! They became popular enough online that they even started getting deals from venues simply because they saw how large their online following was.

However, their old bassist saw this surge in popularity too, and decided they wanted back in now. So, overnight, with no prior discussion, they fired her and brought back the old bassist. Scorned, the new bassist, now ex-bassist, decided to get a in a little revenge…

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Turns out the band still does not understand how social media works, because they never changed their logins. Now, this scorned ex-bandmate takes away a chunk of their following every time they post. So, instead of having thousands of followers, they've lost thousands. She brought it down to only 1k followers now, which was a huge blow to the band.
Her intention is to make them think that every time they post, it is so bad and their fans hate it so much, that they unfollow them. If this isn't petty turned up to 11, then I don't know what is!
"Good luck gaining followers again for you music contract!"

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Band drama is always messy, and I'm sure there is more sides to this story that we are not getting. But to hit a band in the social media area is a harsh blow in this day and age…
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