Overtime: Midjourney User Profiles: Live Tutorial + First Reactions

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Play from 0:00 8:88 0:00 too. Um but yeah, this this is super interesting. And then obviously like outside of that, we also got user profiles the day before,

Play from 0:09 8:88 0:09 correct? Yes. And um let's jump into that, dude, because I think this is this is super interesting. also kind of feels like something that we've already had

Play from 0:21 8:88 0:21 but in a more visible format, you know, because you you still had, right, like anytime you would have

Play from 0:28 8:88 0:28 liked an image or something like that, you could click into a a user profile and see public archives that they may have, but you didn't have the following tab. You didn't have the spotlight tab. you certainly didn't have like a dedicated page for yourself to, you know, tag social profiles, etc. Um, so this is super interesting and I I would love to hear your thoughts on sort of how they executed on this, you know, with um sort of how useful you think it is, how cool it is. They specifically mentioned, right, like that they're not going to show you total number of followers and things like that because they want this to be less of a social,

Play from 1:14 8:88 1:14 you know, format in in that sort of like historical regard and sort of like for allow people to focus on the image generation, not follower counts, right? And not sort of like get into this vanity thing, which I think really stays in line with their ethos. But I'm curious to just get your thoughts on this overall. That was definitely one of the one of the big talking points that we had in that episode where we're like, "What do we want?" And I'm like, "I don't want numbers. I don't want followers. I don't want it to be about like who's who's doing what and like can this be monetized in that way?" Like, you know, like in some way, shape, or form, the marketers start to like bleed in here. I am one, so I know that that's that's probably what would happen. But yeah, like I I was I was liking the fact that it's just like, okay, cool. like

Play from 1:59 8:88 1:59 you just let throw in there what you want to and I can just go follow someone if I want to and I don't have to worry about like I can just go see what Drew is throwing up there and this is what we were talking about like throwing up some of the stuff that would never see the light of day like I forgot about these stupid like isometric rock band things that I was doing I really like them has serves no purpose to me on social media or anything that I'm doing other than I like it like you know what I mean like some stuff is so random.

Play from 2:29 8:88 2:29 Love this. I was just Yeah, I'm just like, "All right, this is this is the random stuff that would never get posted."

Play from 2:36 8:88 2:36 Ah, there it is. Yeah, that was I made an edit on that one, so I figured we'd put it in. Yeah, I love that. I think uh spot on. Right. So, let's let's let's break this down um in terms of what functionality you have in in this, right? So, and and how this works. So, you've got a spotlight section which you can upload anything here that you that you want that you've created. This can also include I think this can also include private things.

Play from 3:04 8:88 3:04 So, I I run a lot of stealth. I don't I mean I I' I've certainly got things that will show on archive, but a lot of my stuff is stealth and I think this part allows you to use either stealth or public,

Play from 3:17 8:88 3:17 right? So, this is just like a quick hitter maybe like what kind of images you want to generate or show off or what whatever it is. Then you've got the archive section which is that public record of images that you're generating. So, I think this is super cool. Um there's some interesting things within here too. So, like let's say you wanted to curate this a bit, you can do that. Uh meaning like you could drop you could click this hamburger menu here and you can either make this private um or you can trash the image completely. So I think like this will be interesting to see if like how people use this but I could just say hey look like I just want to trash this image.

Play from 3:59 8:88 3:59 It's gone. Um, or I could just hit this make private and it's going to take all four of that grid generation of those images and make them all private. So all four of those will disappear.

Play from 4:12 8:88 4:12 So like people could curate this a bit if they wanted to, you know? So this could be like I don't I don't know if people will or not, but like this this could be something that you curate if you want to, right? Um, and then lastly, you've got this following tab, which just keeps track of everybody that you follow. Right. So, um, I'll just click on this one.

Play from 4:33 8:88 4:33 One on there. You're the only person I'm following right now. Keeping my circle tight.

Play from 4:41 8:88 4:41 I like it, baby. Um, but you just click this, right? So, follow. Um, and then what you can do from here, like when you're just on your own profile, which how you get there, by the way, is just clicking on your profile name here, bottom left.

Play from 4:58 8:88 4:58 Okay. So, I click on that brings me here. But I can just click random profile and it's just going to bring up random people. Um, I think you can hotkey this too. Yes, you can. So, if you press your arrows like you do in personalization. Well, that was one, two, and three. But if you use your arrows left and right, you can navigate this too.

Play from 5:18 8:88 5:18 Right. So, um it's kind of cool though because I do like how it's inter like people can interconnect these things too. Like other platforms like oh who is this? Like do I know this person? Like do I follow them on X or Instagram or something like that too. I think that's kind of interesting.

Play from 5:32 8:88 5:32 I did like that. Yeah. I thought that was like a nice way to like like you can do your social thing by connecting with them on other social platforms. You know what I mean? I like the note like can wait. Can you like stuff on here? Like can you like

Play from 5:47 8:88 5:47 Yeah. Does that show up as like an engagement? Oh, you can even spotlight somebody else's image.

Play from 5:54 8:88 5:54 Is that right? Let me Let me try that. What does that do? So add it to spotlight. So if I Oh, it does.

Play from 6:01 8:88 6:01 It's like a It's almost like a re It's almost like a retweet. Yeah. All right. Huh. That's interesting.

Play from 6:08 8:88 6:08 I wonder if somebody gets notified of that. Probably not. I guess that's what I was wondering if you if you like if you like something, does it just show up in your favorites folder? Like I didn't check that yet.

Play from 6:18 8:88 6:18 Yes. Yeah. So, let's let's try that, too. If I go back to this guy and I just put a heart on this, I believe so. Oh, the suspense. The suspense is killing me.

Play from 6:36 8:88 6:36 That's right. I mean, the beauty here. No, I guess not. Does it not? I'm surprised by that.

Play from 6:44 8:88 6:44 Yeah, that is interesting. Okay. Is there any I wonder if I wonder if that's a bug or not?

Play from 6:51 8:88 6:51 Within the profile, like if you go back into your profile, there are anywhere to see like likes or something like that.

Play from 6:58 8:88 6:58 Oh, let's see. Archive following. No. H.

Play from 7:08 8:88 7:08 Maybe not. Interesting. I wonder if that's like a book. Maybe I'm gonna try this again. So, if I do this, let's try it one more time.

Play from 7:23 8:88 7:23 Yeah. Give it a good old There. There it is. So, all right. Okay. Wonder why that There it is. But now it's gone again.

Play from 7:32 8:88 7:32 That might be a bug. Right. That might be a bug cuz Yeah, it should be. I would assume that would happen.

Play from 7:39 8:88 7:39 Intuitively that would happen. But um yeah, man. Any other like I don't know thoughts on that particular piece of this?

Play from 7:48 8:88 7:48 I'm you know there's there's a few things that is uh I'm like into it because again like I don't have to worry about it. like I can just have fun with it, which is what to me like a good job for if Midjourney's listening again. Just like good job like not making it like this whole sort of like rat race sort of like gamified thing here like it's just pure like a profile or like a portfolio which I think is also good too. You think about this as anyone who's like doing this professionally, right? Like this is your portfolio now. Like you can just have Spotlight as your portfolio and that's a easy thing to share now. It's like it's not like oh let me download all these collections put them somewhere whatever like now you can curate it a little bit and it's a little bit of show of your

Play from 8:34 8:88 8:34 work and then everyone can see what you're doing like if I clicked into like if you you clicked into some of these images right like if you go to following like let's just see this real quick this other thing that I have to remember I can't remember if I did it or not if you go into like I don't know Dream Aurora and like is there is there a prompt thing here like if you click on the image does it show the full prompt Yeah, it should.

Play from 8:58 8:88 8:58 Oh, got it. Perfect. So, like, yeah, that's that to me is super useful, especially from a from a uh like portfolio standpoint. It's like here's what I'm doing. It's not just, you know, might be easy to sus out people that are just like, you know, car enter.

Play from 9:16 8:88 9:16 Yeah. Oh, they just got lucky with the prop. They just got lucky, pulled it. You can see some thought process behind everything. I I think um you know and there's there's probably and and you heard it on office hours too is people just you know what if you know I want to have things private well I think that's where stealth comes in you know you don't have to you can control those things in spotlight but I think if you do put p stealth things on spotlight it then becomes public I believe

Play from 9:45 8:88 9:45 so it's kind of it's kind of a little bit of a tradeoff but they did talk about that on office hours and there was sort of like they were trying to explain, hey, look, like we've always been community first in terms of like sharing, right? Like we we try to just lower the barrier to to gatekeeping in that sense, right? Like prompts are prompts. Um this is a community, but if if you at the end of the day, you don't want to do this. I mean, I guess you don't have to, right? Like I mean, you could go through and

Play from 10:15 88:88 10:15 not have an archive visible. You don't have to do the spotlight if you don't want to. You don't have, you know, like you you don't have to do this. So, it's it's it's optional, right? Um, but I think you would at a minimum have to go through your archive and clean that up if you've ever run anything public. The other um thing that I think about with the spotlight, which would be nice though, is the ability to drag and drop these things in different places versus chronological order.

Play from 10:42 88:88 10:42 Ah, good idea. Good point. Yep. you know, just just because it's like, okay, well, what if I like this and then I spotlight a bunch of things after that and I don't want it to be buried kind of thing.

Play from 10:53 88:88 10:53 Then it becomes a little bit more portfolioish, too. Yeah, good point. I like that one. That's that's an easy one, I think. Maybe. Or like a reorder something.

Play from 11:02 88:88 11:02 I think so, too. And and these these can also be videos. I've got stills up. I think you've got stills up. These can be videos, right? Um, I kind of wish we would have gone through this for the first time again because there there was basically like some instructions of like this has to be Yeah,

Play from 11:19 88:88 11:19 it's got to be in this aspect ratio and it's got to be connected to an SRSA mood board or like a profile or something like that. So,

Play from 11:27 88:88 11:27 yeah, man. This is this is super cool. I mean, it's just like another way to maybe like bring people closer together versus kind of like combing through images and then maybe you could click on a name and you see some of their stuff, but that's that's where it ends kind of thing. I mean,

Play from 11:41 88:88 11:41 yeah, now you can interconnect these social platforms, blah blah blah. So, yeah, it's cool. I mean, I like it.

Play from 11:48 88:88 11:48 Uh, good job. Yes. Say