I Don’t Wanna Promote My Friend’s Bad Art

Ok but listen, this is a REALLY AWFUL music video.
Q:
My friend is an aspiring musician and they recorded some songs and made a music video for one of their songs (just for their own YouTube channel, they paid for someone else to make the music video). They keep asking the group chat to promote their video, and that’s fine we will leave comments or like the video or watch it for them to help out. But they’ve been asking me specifically if I can promote the music video on my own social media, since I have more followers because of the work I do. The problem is that the songs are bad, and the music video is really awful. I just don’t feel comfortable putting my reputation behind it. Am I being absurd? It probably doesn’t really matter if I e...

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