Meet Torren Moreno aka Jab50Yen

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Torren Moreno Aka Jab50Yen a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Torren Moreno, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with us today. We’re excited to dive into your story and your work, but first let’s start with a broader topic that might be stopping many of our readers from pursuing their dreams – haters, nay-sayers, etc. How have you managed to persist despite haters and nay-sayers that inevitably follow folks who are doing something unique, special or off the beaten path?
The haters are everywhere. I can’t leave my house without immediately spotting one on the street. My car occasionally gets notes with…let’s just say less than satisfying messages on them. It feels like if I breathe there will always be a hater popping out of the woodwork to call me out on how I’m breathing too slow or too fast. Sometimes I wonder if it’s even worth it to continue with my career knowing there will always be one or more haters ready to shoot my ideas down.

It’s easy to give up when you reach a point where you can’t do simple tasks for your own health without spotting a hater. They’re at your local grocery stores, your local gyms, your local movie theaters, sometimes they’re in your own home sleeping in your own bed (my wife has been my biggest hater for YEARS.)

Even when the world is against you, you have to keep going. You reach a point where your existence is so hated and ridiculed that continuing to truck on out of spite becomes your new source of serotonin. Thousands, sometimes MILLIONS now become inconvenienced in their daily lives knowing that you are continuing to live your life to the FULLEST without their hate and attempted violence speed bumping your way to success,

I’m also not married I made that up please look at my photos and see me as a possible mate.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
It’s always hard for me to answer this question briefly. I edit videos for YouTubers/Musicians, I co-run a music festival, I make experimental art videos, I manage social media for influencers. I’m pretty much the shadow of all of your favorite internet entertainment.

You don’t know me but your favorite personalities do. Maybe one day I’ll get one of those documentaries that you originally weren’t gonna watch until you find out all these big time people you look up to are in it and they start going off about how cool I am and you are all like “…who?”

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
I think patience more than anything. You just kinda have to accept that you’re gonna be awful at what you do for years. No one is gonna like you or what you do and think you’re wasting your time and you’re gonna think that yourself for a bit as well. Learning a craft is easy, it’s the willingness to be humiliated and questioned before things get better and have people actually appreciating and paying attention to what you do.

As far as two more, I guess likability. Half of the battle is being a likable person. You can be super talented but if you suck as a person, no one is gonna want to support or be associated with you. I’m nowhere near the best person in my craft but I can carry an hour long conversation with someone potentially important and I’m gonna be way more remembered because of that.

Lastly, the ability to swallow your pride is important. Yes I know your art is your art and you understand it the most and everyone else is misinterpreting it etc. etc. But you have to accept that your art does not belong to you anymore once you release it and everyone else gets to make their own interpretations and you have to be ok with that. If you’re not, you’re just gonna look pretentious and no one is gonna vibe with that.

If you knew you only had a decade of life left, how would you spend that decade?
The internet is taking down all my platforms! My YouTube channel got terminated so I have to grow a new one over at @jab50yen_

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