WELCOME TO THE FROOMERVERSE
In the words of Borat, Wow Wow Wee Wow! and welcome to the first ever instalment of FROOMESWORLD: THE NEWSLETTER.
This is my brand new newsletter and writing it feels like a homecoming.
I created the beta-version of this newsletter many moons ago, when I was 10 years old.
It was school holidays, which is always the time when I’m most bored, depressed and creative.
It was called Krappy Terd Club, or KTC for short. It was a subscription-based service, available only to members of an elite club consisting of my mum, my dad, not my sister, my uncle and my favourite cousin, David.
KTC chronicled the going-ons in my childhood bedroom in Mount Waverley. It answered questions that begged to be answered.
Who was my favourite relative of the week? What potentially illegal things had my Dad been up to this past month? What was Mum going to cook for dinner?
Fast forward to 2020.
I was inspired to create this newsletter after reading the newsletters of other comedians whose work I either like, respect or am jealous of.
Vic Zerbst hits all three categories – she’s a co-creator of Freudian Nip (you can watch their skits here) – and her newsletter is essential.
I just got this pic off Google I hope she doesn't mind
Another person with a newsletter is David Ferrier. He wrote and presented Dark Tourist on Netflix. I didn’t love it but he hits the category of people I’m jealous of by being a comedian with a Netflix show.
So here we are, talking about his newsletter.
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It was David Farrier Not Ferrier's newsletter that tipped me over the edge and got me bashing this out.
Here’s why.
In his newsletters, he goes off about all things New Zealand, mainly political. A lot of it doesn’t apply to my immediate situation so I switch off, but a few weeks ago he had this bit about one of Elon Musk’s companies, Neuralink.
He linked to this article. It’s 48,000 words but if you’re even remotely interested in AI and how it might shape the future, it’s worth a go. It took me three days to read and absorb it. It was the first time my brain actually understood anything about my brain.
Impressed, if not a little turned on, I Googled the guy who wrote it. His name is Tim Urban.
That's his Instagram, sparse, good use of colour
So because I don't have a job, I went and looked at who he follows. There were 203 accounts. And one of those accounts just so happened to be @siblingsordating.
The premise simple. The results priceless.
The account had only 42 followers, only 15 posts. But those 15 posts whispered quality over quantity – a cornerstone value of the FROOMESWORLD empire.
Impressed again, I shared @siblingsordating on my story and about a thousand people shared it on!
It was a hit and it made me happy to see how this wormhole paid off.
From Netflix, to David Farrier Not Ferrier’s instagram, to subscribing to his newsletter, to clicking on a link in that newsletter, to reading an article, to Googling the writer, to checking out his Instagram, to sussing out who he followed, to clicking on @siblingsordating.
The digital journey was long but it was alchemy and it was too beautiful to ignore.
It was this journey that led me to this point, hunched over my Macbook pro eating some leftover Cadbury easter eggs I found in the fridge, writing a newsletter.
Because how good would it be if something in one of my upcoming newsletters piqued your interest, sent you into a Google k-hole and produced a discovery to rival the pyramids, the wheel or @siblingsordating?
I look forward to ambushing your inbox soon.
Capt F x