Happiness Quote by Jordi Segués

Workplace mockery has always been a gatekeeping tool; SeguEs Daina just updates the insult for the algorithmic age. Being labeled a "TikToker" or "YouTuber" by coworkers isn’t really about the platform. It’s a way of policing status: "real work" versus "internet work", credentialed labor versus self-directed visibility. The quote’s power comes from treating that ridicule as a predictable early-stage tax on new kinds of ambition, not as evidence you’re doing something wrong.

The intent is plainly motivational, but the subtext is sharper: your peers are not neutral judges. They’re invested in the existing hierarchy that makes their roles legible and safe. Calling you a creator in a mocking tone is a form of risk management for the group. If they can frame your project as cringe, they don’t have to confront the possibility that the economy is shifting under them, that attention can be monetized, that an individual can out-earn the org chart.

SeguEs Daina also names "initial shame", which is the emotional choke point that kills most experiments. Shame is social; it’s the fear of being seen trying. By insisting it "doesn’t matter" if you persist, he’s reframing identity as something you build through repetition, not permission. In the broader context of creator economies, this reads like an entrepreneur’s counsel: early ridicule is often just lagging perception. The joke stops when the numbers show up.