Many teens dream of making music that will blow into virality online, yet it is often a dream, and almost never comes to fruition. Not so with former Chick-Fil-A employee turned internet celebrity, musician, and entrepreneur Insyde. He wrote and recorded a song and posted it to his SoundCloud account as a social experiment, opening the door for his rise to social media fame. Since then he has moved into posting viral TikTok videos, and he has become a manager for esports organization Azuric. ONE37pm got the opportunity to hear Insyde's story in his own words:
I have always been interested in creating, even when I was quite young. From age 10 to around age 15, I was borrowing books from the library about filmmaking, graphic design, web development, and marketing. It didn't matter that I only understood half of these books at the time. If I did not understand something, I would research until I figured it out. Most people view autism as a crutch, but I viewed it as a tool, it gave me attention to detail and kept me laser focused on the things I really was interested in—like marketing.
Like many people, I always had a feeling that I wanted to be famous. One day I decided to try an experiment just to see how viral I could go online with just the marketing skills I had learned online and from books I got from my local library. I had been listening to a lot of free youtube beats at the time, and I had one that I liked, so I just put it into a free recording app, and used the worst microphone ever and recorded a song. It took me roughly an hour total to record the song, then I posted it on SoundCloud, pitched it to some big repost accounts, and let it sit. I had a summer camp for a week the next day, so I went to that and never thought twice about it.