Heeeeeeey, friends~
There is really not a lot of excuse not to bring in genuine originality and meaningful contents into our bloggies. You can talk about whatever you are really passionate about, even if you aren't an artist or a photographer or a musician or whatever. Writing is still the heart of blogging, so I think it's always possible to create something of value...
Today I sat down and I browsed the internet, trying to think what I can bring into my blog without drawing... but still something creative, something original, and something that would entertain others... and I immediately got the idea of creating VERY short stories in the form of chat log :> I looked around and found a lot of websites offering easy templates straight away where you can type up to three chatters in the dialog :D
Here's my first attempt:
Easy to digest, with a punchline at the end :>
So, you can't draw? you dont have a good camera? you cant sing? whatever it is, if you're here, you can WRITE. You can access the internet, browse for ideas and create something fun for others to engage in :D
People wants to be entertained. And entertained people stay longer, happier in a place that entertains them. Authors / bloggers create that space in which people can feel entertained and by doing so, you're contributing to the actual success and market value of the platform. If an author's aim is NOT to entertain others but ONLY to get adulation and upvotes from everyone else, they are a cost to the system, not a value add.
Of course these are all just my ramblings, feel free not to take these seriously because we all know that there are so much stuff behind the scenes that are not visible. People might be doing invisible value-add work like community building, or public relations at the mainstream medias, or curating legitimate contents, or fighting abuse, etc. Some might even be working very hard to keep our whales happy~ You may call it brownnosing but it's hard work that I don't think even I could do and it's important to keep our primary investors happy since money does not magically appear from thin air and all that upvotes and conversion to fiat HAS to come from someone's pockets, hey? No such thing as free money~
Anyway, I thought the idea of the chat stories would look even more betterer if it was animated, so I looked up online websites that offer gif making services and got this one made :D Hope you enjoy it, a bit of #QUARANTINE humour to immortalize our current world's state of things XD
i gave it a small lil punchline in the middle, paused and then delivered 'part two' to end with a happy conclusion XD
you can create yours, if you want! all you need is the ability to write on the internet, access to the internet, and your originality :)
here's the websites i used for this post:
https://simitator.com/generator/facebook/chat
https://www.fakewhats.com/generator
https://ifaketextmessage.com/
https://ezgif.com/maker
As usual, don't forget to keep your social media alive with #hive tags to keep the HYPE alive out there in the wider world. Our platform can only succeed if it has perceived value and we all need to do our bits to help out :>
Alright, that's all from this spider for now! Don't let a small spider's snark get under your skin too much if you can~
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HEY CIEL!!!! <3 how are youuuuu~
I'm doing good! Even though these are strange times I am doing okay. <3 I hope you are keeping safe, my friend. I wanted to show you my new changeling drawing I posted! I think you will be happy to see how I've improved as an artist :D xo
oh i'd like to see your new drawing, for sure <3
and it's good to hear you're doing okay in these strange times :) i am keeping safe and well~
You had snark where?
I probably picked it up but not really because I can be a nasty piece of work so other people's small snarks don't really register XD
Those text stories are actually difficult to pull off well so definitely think there is some "value add" there (and my snark is gonna come up soon because I still hate dem buzzwords XD).
XD if snark was not visible,then i'm thankful~ to be honest, i didnt think i was particularly being snarky just being a bit more blunt than usual :3 but i thought some people might read that raw honesty as a snark so i included that disclaimer at the end XD
and yeah, them text stories are not super simple to make, but if you have internet, original idea, time and willingness to make something entertaining instead of just doing entitlement-postings i think, ...idk, people can do a lot more for others instead for selves... imo
fyn's snarks are sensible and has just bases :> i also dislike buzzwordssss~ but gotta admit that some of them have trickled into my vernacular cuz working at corporate life blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
THANK YOU ALSO, FYN <3
Oh maybe that's why I didn't pick up any snark, there was none XD And you know me I"m a blunt tool, I like bluntness and raw honesty, requires less processing power XD
People could totally do a bit more for others but I think some (a lot) have yet to discover the satisfaction that comes from helping/giving to someone else without expecting reciprocation, or of just doing something because it's fun/satisfying rather than focusing on what they can get for it (though in fairness I suppose when you are constantly told to apply that idea to chores that nobody wants to do but that have to be done anyway, it's fair that people automatically avoid that at any and all cost XD).
In fairness to the buzzwords, they were innocent common vernacular like everything else and then corporate happened to them XD