Life is unfair, my friends. I have written a multitude of posts, thousands of comments, discussed, talked, offered support and advice, distributed insults, raged, pontificated, preached, linked, reviewed, photographed, formed lasting human connections, antagonized, etc.
Yet the only two times I ever managed to go viral was with the posts that were not even written by me. The first time was with the tree test post and today I have gone viral again with the Entrepreneur’s post on female employees.
It’s time to face it, I will never be able to make myself relevant to the mainstream with anything I manage to produce on my own.
On the positive side, most of the comments I’m getting from the mainstream are of such a low quality that I’m enjoying a new-found appreciation for the elevated intellectual caliber of my regular readers.
P.S. Blogging is weird. On the day the blog goes viral with Entrepreneur’s post, the most popular search term on the blog is “naked Germans.” Go figure what naked Germans have to do with any of this.
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I stopped keeping track of the comments on that post because I got exhausted. The funniest thing was that people didn’t even know that difference between gender and biological sex. For me going viral would be having more than ten comments on a post. I am more comfortable in the shadows.
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And you haven’t even seen the 70+ comments that I had to Spam because they were just too stupid. About half of them tried informing me that I’m fat, ugly and mean which is what causes me to have problems with my non-existent employees.
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My own blog has not generated this amount of visitors or comments during the three years of all of the posts combined together.
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I’ve been having major computer.internet issues so have missed most of the fuss….
But yay you! The mainstream is terribly overrated, rejoice that you’re not going to be part of it.
I think the post in question was very good (it doesn’t really match my employment experience but I can imagine a female employer’s perspective and/or 20 years could change a lot of things).
Be happy that you’ve been able to help spread the vital message that real woman don’t wilt in the face of insufficient appreciation.
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I’ve missed you! And I’m glad you got what the message of the post is supposed to be.
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You could always ask the Entrepreneur to write more posts, or even create a co-written blog. 🙂
I view forming lasting human connections as much more important than going viral, but you may have different goals, of course. I love “meeting” the same group of people / bloggers.
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I’m paid for every hit (not from Israelis, though), so yes, that’s a goal. 🙂
As much as I shun human company, I have to recognize that I love our little community we formed here at the blog.
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I am amused… it really is interesting to see what people pick up on. The one post I’ve written that really went “viral” (by my standpoint anyway), was the post I wrote about Frozen… Mainstream is so totally over-rated. 🙂
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Shit, I knew I should have watched Frozen. 🙂
That was a brilliant post, by the way.
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My husband was very excited to tell me this morning that he found a blog written by a woman who was a “feminist, a philosopher, a teacher, who loved literature and who had recipes.” I think he quoted half of the Entrepreneur post verbatim…so, naturally I had to check this blog out…
This is a lovely site! I have a ton of catching up reading to do on here 🙂 Definitely a higher caliber of writing, which is so refreshing.
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Thank you, Tamarah!! It’s good to have you here.
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Having tested the waters of the mainstream, they are…quintessentially middlebrow, which is to say that their views are largely informed by their emotions, without much mental processing. If they do not immediately understand what you are saying, in terms of their own cultural context, they will view your writing as not being very good, or not as good as it might be, if only you had put in more effort and been as smart as they. The members of the mainstream simply do not fathom that there is anything beyond or above the mainstream. So if you want to catch their eye, you need to trip an emotional switch or two. Gender controversies seem to do that, because they call forth a sense of crude competitiveness in relation to gender hierarchies. But unless you are lucky, you will not get a deep, considered, or complex response. Put simply, people are responding to their own mentalizations and not to the content of the text — indeed, the more complex the text is, the more this rule applies.
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