Plenty of writers and producers of content have written lots of content about their lives masked as fictional entertainment. If you wrote about all the crazy stuff you’ve experienced and anyone calls you on it … you can just say it was all made up. If anyone wants to prove its true, they are basically revealing their own lives themselves.
Fictionalizing real life experience also take a certain level of confidence to the point of arrogance. I’m Indigenous in Canada and some of the most popular individuals in Native writing and producing are also the ones who are the most full of themselves. There is also a real big problem with Pretendians (non-Indigenous people masquerading as full blooded Indigenous people). At one point, even with all the obvious fakery and lies … all it takes is a dogged determination to just keep telling the same story over and over again. The republicans and Tr*mp are famous examples of that mentality.
I know a few writers and journalists and they all seem to fall into two categories in my experience. They are either good natured, good willed and honest people who just want to tell stories, share stories and hold a big giant mirror for the world to see it self. Or they are individuals that just see the industry as just another arena to manipulate people and popularity in order to make a bit of money.
And from what I’ve seen since I’ve been on Lemmy over the past year … you’re one of the good natured kind and instead of making a fortune manipulating the world, you spend a bit of energy here to give us a laugh and make our corner of the world a little bit better.