Heya playa, are you trying to get a celebrity to respond to your DMs but you're not getting
anything back? What if I were to tell you there's a reason why they're not responding
that's more obvious than just because they're busy. I'm gonna explain what that is and how
to actually get them to respond to you right after this. For those of you that are new
here, my name is Josh and every single week I make videos sharing tips, ideas and stories
teaching you how to be your best self, so if you want to learn and grow hit the subscribe
button and make sure to click on the notification bell. The first thing I want you to think
about is why? Why do you want that celebrity to respond back to you? Is it for the simple
interaction just so you can feel better knowing they acknowledged you? Or do you have bigger
plans to actually be friends with that celebrity? To get to know them better, maybe even work
for them in the future? Well, if you just want them to like your post or comment on
it because you're a huge fan and it'll feel good, I think the best thing for you to do
is to focus on creating something for that person to see. For example, I did this with
The Rock and actually got a tweet back from him. Years ago when I found out The Rock was
going to have a tv show called Wake Up Call, I decided to make a video talking about some
of the videos from that show. I'll link up the video over here but ultimately I tweeted
The Rock, I tagged him in it and I got an actual response back from him and I gotta
say, it's pretty cool having a celebrity actually acknowledge something that you put hard work
into to show appreciation for them. But a lot of times people fall into what is called
"Parasocial relationships" which means that there's a one-sided relationship with you
and that celebrity. Ultimately the more you consume their content, you watch their videos,
you read their posts, you see what they're doing online, you feel like you develop a
friendship with them, the two of you are really close even though that celebrity may not know
who you are so you might feel more inclined to constantly contact them. To constantly
get annoyed and upset every time they don't respond back to you because you feel like
there's a real friendship there even though they don't feel that same way too. Hence the
why question in all of this, why do you want to communicate with that celebrity? Now if
you're looking for specific tactics on how to get their attention, check out the video
I did over here where I break down more of that but I want to kind of share something
that a lot of people I think don't realize which leads to them getting frustrated when
the celebrity just doesn't respond. One thing Instagram does pretty well is filtering different
messages that you receive so that it's easier for you to find messages from your friends
and people you know versus people that are just fans trying to contact you and that's
where the little request folder comes in. Instagram allows you to organize your conversations
into two categories, Primary and General. Now I like to use the Primary folder as a
way to just speak to people I know in real life or that I'm online friends with or people
that are channel supporters in there so I can just quickly access the conversations
and always respond back if they send me a message. And in General I kind of use it as
a way to communicate with people that I'm fans with or people that enjoy my content.
Now, there's also the Request folder and in here, Instagram organizes it into Top Requests
and All Requests. And Top Requests literally organizes people by their follower account
so if you don't have a huge audience following you then chances are you won't get seen there
so if you click Top Requests and go to All Requests then you can see every message that
you've received. So think for a second how many steps you need to take to actually get
to an individual person's message. It's a lot and chances are most celebrities aren't
actually doing that to respond to DMs so, is sending a celebrity a DM the best way to
communicate with them and to get their attention? Probably not. And look, I by no means have
a huge following but I do tend to see people get annoyed and upset when I don't respond
to their messages. They take it personally as if I'm choosing to ignore them but the
reality is that there's a lot of messages that people send me and only so much time
that I have to answer them so think about a bigger celebrity, a celebrity with millions
of followers, how much time do you think they have to respond to every fan that sends them
a message? Now one strategy I would recommend if you want to get closer to a huge celebrity
and be their personal assistant or work on their team or work on a project that they're
working on and you just know that they don't respond to DMs is to try this. Basically what
you want to do is look at the surrounding network around that celebrity, who are their
make up artists, who's their agent, who helps them learn new dances, who books their gigs,
who's their friends? All the people that are a part of their life, those are the people
you're gonna wanna reach out to and get closer with. For example, if you can get closer to
Demi Lovato's make up artist then chances are that makeup artist will recommend you
for something with Demi when that time comes up so the chances of you working on Demi Lovato's
team has to come from the network you build with the people surrounding them. Ok maybe
you're not thinking that far ahead and you just want Charli D'Amelio to like your TikTok.
I get it but celebrities have the same 24 hours in the day that you do and if they have
millions of followers that send them millions of messages it's gonna be hard for them to
respond to each and every single one so be patient, be understanding. Recognize that
as long as you support that creator, support what they do, support what they create and
show your gratitude for them, I'm sure that they will appreciate it. What do you think
though, who's a celebrity that you really like and you're trying to get their attention
by sending them DMs but it's just not working. Leave your comments down below and let me
know why you like them so much. I wanna give a huge shout out to all my patrons and YouTube
channel members, these are the people that help support my channel so if you're someone
that enjoys my content and you want to communicate with me, the best way to do that is to become
a new channel member or through Patreon. The link for that is down below. And if you made
it this far in the video, what I want you to do next is to check out the video listed
over there on the side which is gonna go deeper into DMing celebrities and actually getting
a response from them. Check it out guys, it's super informative. On that note, I'll catch
you next time. As always, love and peace.