Fame!
Do you ever send emails or anything? How do people know there's new content? Because I want to subscribe.
Dear T, thank you, your esteem means a lot.
Nope. If I did that, I would have to announce I made a new post. People would begin to expect new these things. I would expect that people would expect new content and announcements. And then I would have to create content. That would take the fun right out of everything.
But if I don’t tell anyone and I don’t want anything, then I can sleep for months and no one will find out! I may even have over a dozen viewers someday! I’ll never know. That's not the point.
I pretend that this site helps me point friends to the stuff I’m talking about when I tell a story. But that’s not true, is it? I make this because I want to flaunt the glorious things I do; to try, discover and fail. I do it for show, but I don’t want to know who’s watching.
I stopped making pages —and even art— for years, maybe decades. Yes, decades, come to think of it, since people started hacking search engine rankings. Soon, there were courses on how to write your way to the top of google search. Soon, everyone wanted to rank. Soon, ranking meant money, and for those who splashed their face on a personal site, those faces were becoming a little bit famous. Teensy bit. Weensy, really. Wired journalist Chris Anderson showed us ’The Long Tail’, and those faces of early search engine pioneers were REALLY FUCKING FAMOUS in the world of Dry Hemp Flower Vaping and Single Edge Razor Forums.
That was in the 1990s*. We’re now in the two-oh-twooooooo-ooo-oo-somethings. Things must be terrible right now. How do we get along if we're all blaring our plastic trumpets (those Brazilian things, the vuvuzela) over one another for little dopamine hits like rats with a serious lever habit?
Who would want that stress? Don’t want that.
I just want to show my Mom the neat thing I made today.
*Well, Dry Hemp Vaping influencers weren't a thing in the 90's, that started a couple of years ago.