Ghosts of GWA Past: Discussion with early members of the GWA community.

Ghosts of GWA Past:  Discussion with early members of the GWA community.  Formation of life long friendships, Content Theft, the growth and changes  of GWA.  

Gone Wild Audio has experienced tremendous growth we talk with 3 former GWA creators who were active in 2012 though 2016 about their experiences.

“The more things change the more they stay the same”  ~  u/Tom_Like_A_Bomb

Co Hosted by:  u/totallynotnatalie

Guests:   u/WickedSub,    u/Tom_Like_A_Bomb ,   u/LenaLovesLilacs

Note: This discussion was recorded Live on Sunday October 25th.  Prior to the Russian theft of content that has occurred this week.  @ 51 Minutes we discussed content theft  proved to be prescient this week.

 

Notes: 

Growth of GWA subscribers

 400k    Sep 20, 2020

300K     Aug 10, 2019 

100K     Dec 31, 2016

50K     Oct 11, 2014 

20K     May 12, 2013 

10K     Nov 29, 2012 

 

Average New Daily Subscribers is near 650 per day

 

 

Source: https://frontpagemetrics.com/r/gonewildaudio

 

Timeline:

 

4:56  Background Skillset for GWA creation 

6:41 OMG some “Famous” GWA’er likes my voice

10:53  IRL relationships between GWA creators

11:43  How the community worked back then

13:20 The more things change the more they stay the same

15:15  The origin of Audio Challenges

18:27 The size of GWA and 500k Subscribers: Making your own Community

23:39 Growth  of GWA and challenges have evolved 

29: 28 Getting attention, Tags, Titles and Voting

35:17 Reddit moving towards social media platform

40:40 Randomness of Upvotes,  Reddit Algorithms and How to Burn out

47:00 Monetization trends

51:20 Content Theft has ALWAYS been an issue, DMCA Takedowns

58:17 Starstruckness of other Redditors

60:04 Dont Respond to an Audio with an Audio unless you have permission

61:40 How a Random comment developed into Audio Series

63:47 Posting frequently vs Posting only when you want to

68:56 When to step Away & Burnout

71:12 The Emotional Drain of Content Creation

78:38 Long Scripts and the unique 2nd Person Scripts on GWA

81:54  The Creation of Soundgasm

85:41  Predicting the Future of GWA

87:24 Specialty Content vs Fragmentation of GWA the ongoing debate

93:33 Final Thoughts