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I, too, might be upset enough to ragequit Twitter if my most popular post was that & I believed my other posts were profound.
by bt1a 5y ago
I, too, might be upset enough to ragequit Twitter if my most popular post was that & I believed my other posts were profound.
- causality0 5y agoYou hit the nail on the head. I don't have a good name for it, but this submission falls into one of HN's top ten tropes: Technology/startup blogger stumbles into mild internet fame for a single event/post, and then later feels the need to wax philosophical about it. That'd be fine, except none of them ever have anything original to say about it. Literally all of them boil down to "I didn't really enjoy getting my ten million likes, and social media is bad for me."
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoI think it's because if you get a wildly viral post you quickly realize that it doesn't mean anything, you just got lucky. You need to go viral multiple times for it to make a significant impact, and I think people also realize that they just don't give a shit about growing an audience and wonder why they're wasting their time.
- noizejoy 5y agoIt seems very difficult for many (most?) of us to accept that outlier events in our lives are generally more random good or bad luck, rather than something caused by our actions.
- polynomial 5y agoWell, if they are not "content creators" they may not give a shit, but the whole thing (ie game) is to become a (successful) content creator.
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoSure, but like I said, you need to go viral multiple times for it to matter. Going viral for a single piece of content is just a flash in the pan. It's way harder to be a "content creator" than people think.
- causality0 5y agoWhich begs the question, why do they hit the front page so often? What's the allure? Do readers expect to find anything except mild disillusionment and a faux-deep revelation that spending fourteen hours a day staring at a screen is bad for your mental health?
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoI think the allure is that a large number of people haven't had something go viral are in awe/impressed, and they probably don't realize that this stuff is extremely luck based.
- Gigablah 5y agoThere's also the allure of retreating from the unwashed masses back to their solitary perch on top of their very, very high horse.
- xvector 5y agoExactly this. I feel like this blog post just feeds into HN’s superiority complex. Let people have fun