The need for public recognition can negatively impact an individual's self-worth and mental stability.

“why why do you need to be um looked at heard loved by so many people you don't even know um and and how it how it can build your confidence in a way but also how it can destroy you especially when you don't have enough love for yourself to have this mirror of so many people who are loving you”

Creative people often struggle with the tension between wanting validation and maintaining their own integrity.

“there's a struggle between feeling like you're you're exploiting yourself sometimes um for that uh that validation or that spotlight and i think um i think that's that's just a struggle that creative people have is you can't really do it alone um and uh sometimes you have to um you have to hold on t”