Crystal Bantel

I’m open to new ideas for ways to empty the brain, distraction, and refreshment. Besides shows and video games.

To whom it may concern on Bluesky team: please give me a minimum of 500 characters. I can’t even get one single thought articulated in the space you’ve given me.

See I actually love seeing ads on meta apps. I like the personalization etc ….. I’ve never hated those things. So that’s why this feeling is so new to me lol this feeling of not liking the core of social media anymore

I am a business coach and yet I’m currently feeling an enormous resistance to social media marketing. It is debilitating at the moment. I’m still sending emails to my email list and making sales there (yay!!) ….. but I just can’t bring myself to do much of anything on IG or FB. It just feels gross.

But I watched The Social Dilemma last weekend and it put me way deep into depression. Seeing how deeply social media has been built to manipulate the minds, and how much psychological manipulation goes into creating effective marketing strategies overall … god.

building my business. I’m not amazing at social media marketing. And yet, Facebook is where I’ve gotten most of my clients.

Anyway …. Even now with the very big and obvious reasons to boycott Meta apps, it didn’t really faze me bc I’m dedicated to making an income to feed my family, ya know?

I’ve never been the person to whine about hating social media. I have always had a high appreciation for social media, because it’s genuinely how I have kept in (albeit faint) touch with people from other countries I met a decade ago… and then in the more recent years, it’s been a place of

Yeah I did eventually but honestly like, 6 mo the later probably so it was a bit disjointed lol.

I felt all the same things. I could hardly stand it, I had to stop watching that season for a few months 😢

Just something to think about

Correction, I checked the actual time and it was within 26 minutes of sending the email 😌

Aww hahaha you have lots of spice to keep you company!!!

lol that’s a cool idea

Aww that’s so sweet 🥲 I published two coloring books this Christmas, and I started a “color with me” YouTube channel to try to promote them while also helping ppl with some relaxation/sleepy/spa music as they watch 🤩 my channel is @BitterBloomBoutique

lol yes best reason ever

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Love me some good thrifty finds!!!

Omg I searched my hashtag #Neurodivergententrepreneurs from the other post… and I am the ONLY PERSON who’s using it. Where my #Neurodivergent friends here??? #adhd #audhd #autistic

Where are my people? Dear algo gods, send me the #Neurodivergententrepreneurs, the #artists who want to sell more than only originals, the #adhd and #autistic recently diagnosed #businessowners &learning to embrace their inconsistent #energy levels & emotional capacity… bonus if they’re #queer 🏳️‍🌈

It’s stunning :)

It’s so pretty!!! 🤩

Wow your spicy cat should meet mine

Would it help to “speak it” instead of write? You could vocally capture your ideas … and you might yourself expanding on your thoughts?

When you’re unfocused and unsure which of the 10 projects to work on, ask yourself either
1) which one do I have the most dopamine for? Make me the happiest? OR
2) which one’s my FASTEST chance to make me money?
For me that was writing an email to my list today, which gave me a new lead in 60min!!

So what is USA now, a -1st World (read as “negative first”) country? Or 4th world. Can’t decide. In any case, a world that I am not loving having as a neighboring country. 🥶🇨🇦

Lots of little fish eating big fish.

Do not panic.
Organize.

I also color mushrooms inside the adult mushroom mandalas coloring book I published on Amazon. I have a color-with-me channel on YouTube if ya wanna join me in the realization!

If you say "hey ladies" then why not make it equal and say "hello lords" too. We’re not walking around with swords and lording/ladying over the commonfolk and plundering the lands. So aside from how annoyingly gendered those terms are, they're also just not current to the life I now live in 2025 ✌🏼

How do you freeze your momentum? Aka, when you're "in the flow" but you know that this hyperfocus will not last till it's done, how do you make sure you'll be able to pick up where you left off when you're back?

#NeurodivergentEntrepreneurs

But what I really miss is the social-ness of social media and so there’s a good chance I’ll be scattered on here In an effort to have a place where my thoughts can go 🤓 You can expect a solid blend of marketing my AMAZING products AND personal thoughts & rants about things that are important to me.