Tips for separating your different "personalities?"

What I mean is: I have private/personal me. I also do stand up comedy. And, acting. And, now I created a fictional character that I have been branding pretty aggressively. Here's what I'm trying to figure out:

  • There is some overlap between private me and stand up comedy. Many of the people who like me as a person like me as a comedian and they are pretty loyal. BUT, private me also has connections to local politics and that's very divisive. Basically, its beneficial in one direction (personal me gets people to shows... but political affiliations alienates people who meet me at shows). I like using my full name for both. I get booked a LOT, and getting this part of my social media right will probably take me to the next level.

  • Actor me and and comedian me feels more consistent. That's the more professional version. I can leverage these two versions of me together. I even have an IMDB credit (with two more credits coming soon!). Many of my personal/comedian people don't give a crap about seeing me in a movie, though lol. My movies are often serious drama/thriller/horror stuff. They don't give af!! Its like "make me laugh, clown!!" and I don't do that as an actor. I'm new to acting, but I have been running with two different production companies (small, but they putting out movies and getting paid).

  • My fictional character is something my personal people are very interested in as well... but, again, the political associations can be bad. The nice thing is: I don't actually WANT this to be associated with my name. I want this to be a separate entity... but, I would like to leverage whatever bases I currently have access to. This is my baby! This is something I wanted to do for over a decade! And, now that I finally got this off the ground, I want to start branding the hell out of it!

Right now, all three versions of me are all using the same profiles. I don't think I have the fanbase to break everything apart... but, i also think having all versions of me in the same account gets confusing for some people and definitely alienates people as soon as political discussions pop up. I really want to have a professional online presence; but right now, it definitely feels very poorly done.

If it helps, I am currently on Facebook and Instagram. With regards to comedy and acting, I'm not going to make "Hey, I have nothing to say, but I'm making a video for the algorithm" videos. I'll make a post, but no stupid worthless video that everyone gets mad at for existing. That's just not going to happen. Its also considered bad form to put all your material online, because if people like you and want to see you, they are going to be disappointed once they show up and are like "oh. I heard this on his social media account." With regards to the character I created, think of that as a webcomic or a comic strip from the news paper. I don't know how to approach that.

So, yeah: I don't know how to social media in any professional way lol. Any tips on how to make any of this work would be appreciated!

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