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A sphere is what you do: Singer/Vocalist, Musician, Dancer, Comedian, Rapper, Songwriter, Composer, Producer/Beatmaker, Poet, DJ, Choreographer, Performance Artist, Voice Actor, Actor, Engineer, Industry Professional. Pick every one that is true.

Your sphere decides which questions you get asked next, because the same question does not fit everybody. A musician is asked for genres and instruments. A dancer is asked for dance styles instead of genres. A comedian is asked for comedic styles. Hold two spheres and you are asked for both sets.

Genres and instruments are tiered. Under Latin there is Reggaeton; under Drums there are Congas. The rule throughout the app is that broad includes narrow: tag yourself Reggaeton and you appear in a search for Latin as well.

So there is no trade-off to manage. Being precise never costs you the wider search, and it wins you the narrow one that a vague tag would have missed entirely.

Sounds like is where you name the artists your work sits next to. It is a search surface, not a boast: somebody looking for a particular sound types a name they already know, and this is what connects that name to you.

Name artists a stranger would recognise and would not be misled by. Three or four accurate ones do more than a dozen aspirational ones.

Without a username your profile link is a long string of letters and numbers. It works, it just cannot be read down a phone, printed on a flyer, or typed from memory.

Set a username in your settings and the same profile answers at a short link with your name in it. Anything already shared keeps working.

• No sphere set. Sphere is what most filters key on, so an untagged account matches almost nothing.
• No location. Anything matched geographically skips you entirely.
• Nothing posted. Accounts with work sort above accounts without, on every filtered list — you are not hidden, you are underneath.
• A placeholder name. Accounts whose display name reads as typed-to-get-past-the-form are held out of the public directory until there is something on them.

None of these delete anything and none of them are permanent. Fill in the missing field and the row comes back on the next load.

Verification says the person or venue behind an account is the one named on it. It carries no ranking weight and buys no placement — nothing on this app is ranked by engagement, so there is nothing for a badge to tip.

You ask for it from the Get verified card in your profile settings, and it is checked by a person rather than granted automatically.