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elle
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"But back then, content was rare. If someone had a blog, it was exceptional. If someone wrote online regularly and shared their thoughts with dozens of others, it was remarkable. We all commented and responded, then reacted with our own thoughts. And we had a blast doing it. It wasn’t perfect, but it was enjoyable. I don’t think any of us would have described that experience as stressful or anxiety producing. Contrast that with the so-called “creator economy” which continues to emerge. Musicians and authors are often sharing their discomfort with having to stay at the top of the feed, feeling the need to keep producing average work so that they don’t get forgotten and don’t go broke. Nowadays, content is not novel; it is assumed." a good nostalgic essay by jeff goins about doing internet for fun https://jeffgoins.substack.com/p/unpopular-opinion-the-internet-is
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Christian Montoya 🦊
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I was a blogger. For me it was a little competitive and I did strive to be successful with it but yeah it was nothing like fighting with the algos today. I think part of the reason things are so stressful for creators today though is there’s just way more people competing. The Internet is a much bigger place now.
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elle
@riotgoools
i think being a competitive and successful blogger back then and now are quite different. like he says in the essay, these days, there's more of an expectation to make a living out of doing it for a lot of ppl. and yes there are definitely way more ppl now all trying to do that. back when i was trying to blog, i think the main marker of success for me was how many ppl read it and not how many dollars it converted into (⌒_⌒;)
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Christian Montoya 🦊
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Yeah the idea of blogging as a living was unusual back then, I think Kottke and Dooce were total outliers, but then it picked up steam. At one point I was a member of 9rules which was a blogging network and some of those people were making good money from it. It was also around that time that newsletters became a product. But yeah there's something about social media now where EVERYTHING is a hustle and EVERYONE is promoting a product that is just... exhausting.
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