I do actually feel lucky as I'm doing surprisingly well given I'm socially inept (at least in real time) and completely do not do
paying attention to the results of many approaches
which is generally what one needs to do if one wants to become e-popular do alright on social media.
vaguely related, do you remember when being "e-popular" wasn't considered as "really" being popular, much like how online friends somehow couldn't be "real" friends XD
it isn't cronyism, it is the development of trust between content creator and the consumer
Exactly what a crony would say? ;D
I still don't look at trending at all ever
Vaguely related, I remember years and years ago when I actually wanted to be more out there, I remember seeing other artists who were technically worse than me but a lot more popular. I wondered why for ages as I was doing similar things (I was engaging a lot but while quality was consistent frequency was absolutely not by any stretch of the imagination) and hadn't thought about doing progblogs yet) but could never quite stumble across that "wow" factor. I got an inkling after a while but it was only after I had done webdev properly as a business and learned way more than I wanted to about trends and seo that I realised it was because they were working in popular fandoms AND doing popular art styles that everyone likes, because this
There are many types of content that can earn, but one also has to consider what kind of platform this is and what kinds of people are here and what they are interested in
minus the earning on those other sites but this otherwise applies just as much elsewhere
I then figured I was never going to be popular because I don't do popular things, and everything became so much easier ;D
I have worked for many hours for cents on Hive
Same :D And prior to that I was doing the same amount of work for nothing, so cents was pretty amazing :)
I only have e-friends now.... mostly on MySpace.
Yes. But, it is true isn't it? People have preferences for all things, content included.
It is far better than it was.
It is good to come to terms with it :)
For me, I am lucky because I enjoy writing what is also in a popular category, but it took a long time to differentiate myself. The problem is, I like writing in lots of categories too, and I know that no one is ever going to say - "That Taraz is a great poet!" :D For me to warrant getting automated votes on that content, I have to make sure the vast majority I write is considered valuable enough to make up for what isn't as valuable.
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You never know, someone somewhere out there might be saying exactly that, just you haven't heard it yet XP
I kind of understand where you're coming from with warranting automated votes, in my case I'm generally just trying to keep up consistency and quality of work because unlike you I don't actually know why I'm getting most of the automated votes x_x
How do you value what you do? That's something I never got the hang of (even with the webdev business and commissions x_x). Also how do you work out how other people value what you do?
I'm assuming we were talking financial value seeing as we're here and talking about upvotes ^_^;