The Denton music venue is being criticized over a social media post advertising an internship opportunity.
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On Nov. 25, the venue announced a new spring internship position."Do you consider yourself part of the creative class? Are you a student at one of Denton’s surrounding universities? Enjoy creating promotional content alone in your room? Then you may have a place on the RGRS Team!" reads the post, which details duties such as:"You can create fliers, videos, reels, .gifs, slideshows, interpretative dances … whatever medium conveys the spirit of the event you are promoting.
The announcement was put up on Facebook, Reddit and Instagram. Most of the backlash came from Reddit, where Withers used his username, chadwick_witherspoon, to post the announcement in the Denton subreddit. “This wasn't intended to be something where we're asking somebody to come on full time and run our social media department, which is what some responses seem like,” Withers says. “It was supposed to be for someone who is 18 or 19 years old who probably has a full-time job, probably going to school and has a creative outlet who wants to get their foot into the music business.”
“We do have paid positions that work on our social media and, honestly, if you look at any other music venue in North Texas or anywhere else, you'll see that reflected in the content and promotion that we do,” Withers says. “Most venues suck when it comes to their social media presence, and we really try to build a robust one here in order to help promote what we're doing here and get people to watch live music.
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