Pod#120 - Saltafa - Memes, haters, criticisms, community, future!

Saltafa is on the show! Maybe you know him from his massively famous meme account (that got taken down)! Or his other (current) account! Or his live sessions or podcasts or merch or twitter or just from other creators mentioning him so often! Or maybe you don't know him at all, or even dislike him. If you fall under any of these categories, this deep dive into his life & career on the internet so far will help learn more. If that's what you want. Things discussed in this episode: 1. 00:00 Intro 2. 02:22 Saltafa takes off his mask?? 3. 07:46 How everything began 4. 012:42 How the motivations & content evolved, and an impactful text message 5. 16:02 When and why did things take off, and the first merch drop 6. 22:40 Reaction within friends & fam. life after A levels 7. 27:17 Becoming proper famous, haters, death threats 8. 33:54 Meeting other creators, first sponsorships, developing other pages 9. 38:06 The main page gets killed 10. 43:43 “Saltafa only reposts other peoples’ memes” 11. 53:10 “Saltafa is offensive for the sake of being offensive” 12. 1:00:55 The Clubhouse Connection and a change of opinions 13. 1:04:44 All the different pages, ESports and “what is the plan?” 14. 1:09:56 Lack of transparency on social media platforms? 15. 1:11:55 His aim to “help people” and the trap of savior complexes 16. 1:17:47 Outro LINKS: Main page: https://www.instagram.com/s4ltafa/ Merch: https://www.instagram.com/saltamerch/ E-Sports: https://www.instagram.com/saltesports_/ Saltafa Nation: https://www.instagram.com/saltafanation/ Sugarafa: https://www.instagram.com/sugarafa/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/saltafa7 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/saltafa Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)! Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below! SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tprpod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tprpod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPRPod Ali: https://twitter.com/themaholupper Rizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkhar Sarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan