This time, the theme is more "light," with a culmination that feels like a "flight." I had the instrumental ready earlier, but I didn't share it due to the bias that "no one would listen" to a pure instrumental track. However, after the Matrix theme, which many people liked and I received positive feedback, I realized that the bias was wrong.

So today, I spent most of time generating GIFs for the clip. It took me 5 hours to create 72 seconds of original video material. Luma, Klimber, and Runway—all of them generate a huge percentage of flawed results, so only one in ten, or at best one in five, GIFs is actually usable.

With the track being 4:50 minutes long, I calculated how much time it took to create just 72 seconds of video and realized I wasn’t ready to spend 20 hours just making GIFs for the clip (plus a few more hours for the actual editing and stitching). So, in the end, I decided to loop the material I had already generated.

Additionally, I inserted a simple 50-second GIF of a star map in the middle, which I created using a simpler tool. Considering that most other artists upload instrumentals with just a single image, I think my approach is still more dedicated.

DJ Bogdan Karasiov - Aurora Borealis (2025 Instrumental wareHOUSE Original Track)

"Aurora Borealis" is Latin for "northern lights" (Aurora herself is the goddess of dawn).

YouTube still isn’t promoting me at all. To illustrate: one of my recent songs, "Honey on the Lips," gathered 1,218 views on Facebook in the first 5 days, but on YouTube... only 28 (despite me sharing the YouTube link across all blogs). How is that even possible? I suspect those jerks put me in a shadow ban during the first year of the war when I was posting a lot of frontline news, burned Russian tanks, and so on. Given what we know now in the fourth year of the war (including the American stance), a shadow ban seems entirely plausible to me.

What can be done? The only answer I see is to keep persistently creating, gaining subscribers so that no shadow bans can hinder progress further.

✍ Bogdan Karasiov, Ukraine, March 25, 2025.

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