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Robert Kingett @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social
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Thinking about every dehumanization of bloggers I’ve seen growing up. To me, it seemed like pop culture hated, and I mean hated, bloggers. I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s. Now however, I get more information, better sourced news, vastly deeper personal perspectives, and even stark educational material through people running blogs on their own websites but when I was growing up, you weren’t a real writer if you had your own blog and website. You were the laughing stock of the Internet if you had your own blog and your own website. Imagine if we encouraged blogging and website ownership decades ago. To put things into perspective, the dehumanization of bloggers and website owners is almost the same as the pop culture dislike of podcasts today.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@WeirdWriter They only hated bloggers who weren’t making money. They loved HuffPost or even BoingBoing. Similarly, everyone loves iHeart podcasts because they make money. Fanfiction authors are dehumanized for the same reason. Can what you’re doing directly make you money? If yes, you’re a hero! If no, you’re hardly even a human.
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Robert Kingett @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social
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@fastfinge Nailed it! Meanwhile I can’t tell you how much fanfiction I read that’s better than some original IP
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@WeirdWriter I literally saw your post the day after a friend advised me I needed to put Google Ads on my blog. Not because it might make me money, but because it shows initiative and “hustle”. The fact I don’t have ads on my personal blog will apparently hurt my job search.
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Robert Kingett @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social
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@fastfinge Hustle culture is so gross. Yuck!
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