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Look what I made:
Exciting, right?
This is me, trying to take a break:
I attempted to sit in front of the TV today.
I hate commercials. I don't want to buy Tide today. Stop asking me to buy Tide every few minutes. Nobody else comes along and insists I buy Tide. If I had a friend like that, I'd be forced to tell them to either be quiet, or leave. I don't want to be rude, so shut up about your Tide.
Who smiles when they're doing laundry? Are they high from the Tide fumes? Did they take the pills the previous commercial was offering maybe? They didn't seem to be acting like they were suffering from a long list of side effects. What's going on here?
Now some other asshole is attempting to convince me that I should watch a different show. How can I do that when it starts at 7 p.m. on a Monday? I don't even know what day it is today. I don't have a time machine, and I don't plan that far ahead either. What if something comes up? Will this strange voice come back and start hounding me about where I was and who I was with? I don't need another control freak in my life. I mean, sure, I can help out, I can take a few orders; but I'm not the little magic talking box at the drive-thru, so don't treat me like one.
Fucking Tide again. Is this some kind of joke? Why did the Canadian wash his clothes in Tide? Because it's too damn cold out Tide. Everyone knows that.
I realize some suspension of disbelief should probably come into play here. How much of my consciousness are they asking for though? Am I required to be two leaves away from being a cabbage in order to enjoy this shit? Sure seems that way. I wonder why they would want to keep me in such a vegetative state of mind?
I better shut this thing off. Too many questions. Not enough answers.
I guess I'll do some laundry.
Hmm.
Looks like I'm out of Tide. They were trying to tell me something. How did they know? Is this the future? Am I living in it? No wonder they call it a Smart TV. Now it all makes sense.
So I wrote down those thoughts.
I should have planned my vacation better.
I read all of your comments.
I'll just keep posting stuff. I get so bored. That digital art, it's a hobby of mine. I enjoy doing it. That's how I stay calm. It helps me focus. That one up there might not be my best one but that doesn't really matter. There's no point in doing that and not sharing it here now that I have a blog that people actually look at. So what the hell? This is my life now. I'll just keep doing what I enjoy doing.
Those posts that were on the trending page that turned me off, I read the comments there. So many doubters. So many so-called 'experts', and of course a few trolls. So much negativity. They all act like they know everything. Based on what so many say, they obviously have no fucking clue I exist. They know nothing about what I've been able to achieve here. It's unfortunate that type of nonsense has to be on the front page for others to see and become discouraged when there are people here, like me and many others, who can say the opposite while basing it all on facts and experience.
If I step in to correct any of these people, it's like stepping into a lion's den.
Quite recently, I went to offer a witness one of my flags to test that theory. It was a post with one picture and no words and boosted up near the top of the trending page with bots. I found the source of the image, flagged the post because it did not include a source, included my reason for the flag in a comment, whatever, that shouldn't be a big deal. He cleared that issue up with words, words that should have been included in the post to begin with, then threatened to flag me in return but five times harder, before I even had a chance to respond. Undeterred, I decided to keep the flag there but changed my reason to a disagreement with rewards. That was my response. I figured, fuck it, go ahead and flag my posts, asshole. That incident as well as watching these jokers make fools of themselves on the trending page on a regular basis was all contributing to me wanting to just pack it in.
I don't give up easy though. I've been forced to quit important things in my past and I've always done it simply because I was unhappy and wanted a change. This blog and what I do here makes me happy though. I enjoy it. I'll just be the bigger person and those people can put on their show and act petty. That's the legacy they'll leave behind on an immutable blockchain. They have to live with it, I don't.
I said I was taking a break. I ended up just taking some time to think about things. I realize my vote is important to many of you. I know you don't depend on it but I know it makes you happy when you see it. I need to be here for myself, like I said, I enjoy it; but I think I enjoy helping people even more. It's hard to turn my back on you folks. I want to see people succeed. I feel bad on this end when I can't get to all of your posts or if I've exhausted my voting power for the day and have nothing left to give. I try to get other people to see your stuff. I've probably annoyed a few people by dropping links in their chat and saying, "Hey! I found a good one." Of course their votes are all tied up as it is and I know I'm stepping on toes trying to help people, but I do it anyway.
Someone left a comment under my previous post. Part of it went a little something like this:
It's as though many Steem users are experiencing the "bystander effect" (Someone else will take care of it. They don't need my help)
Triggered. Kind of...
That is not me at all. So common though. If you're not doing what someone wants, you're doing nothing at all. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. That's people for you.
I don't have any desire to sit around and brag about the good things I try to do. I do things, if they're good, great. If I've helped you somehow, you know I've helped you, that's good enough for me and I ask for nothing in return. I don't even feel comfortable attempting to get attention for helping people. I've held the door for plenty of strangers in my life. I never once started yelling, "Hey! Look at me! I'm holding a door for someone!" Most people don't even say thanks or look me in the eye when I do that, and that's okay.
So Yeah
That's probably enough rambling.
Not many will read this post. It's designed in a way to only attract those who are interested in what I'm up to. I'm going to release it at a strange hour and remove the self vote just to get a taste of that minnow life again for a few minutes and see where it takes me.
P.S. I read all of your comments. I'm not ignoring anyone. I was just away for most of the day, thinking, and listening. Thanks for having my back.
Well I never heard that Tide joke.Come to think of it I've always used Tide and can;t even think of another brand of laundry detergent right now lol
The doing good hings part of this post made me remember a time I was selling chocolate bars. I used to walk around parking lots to sell chocolate bars when I was like 12-14 ish for a charity that got a %, and we got to keep a buck off each one we sold..
I approached a guy and he was super rude, put his hand up in my face, got in his car and slammed the door. I noticed his seat belt was hanging fully out the door, buckle and all. I approached his car again to tell him, since I knew he could get a ticket for driving without a seat belt if a cop saw that. But he put his hand up again and waved me off again and sped off in a huff as if I had some communicable disease...
Anyway, Karma was quick. As he was waiting at the light to pull out of the parking lot, lo and behold a cop car pulled up to the red light just as his light went green. He pulled out of the parking lot, and turned right in front of the cop! Cop lights went on, BAM, ticket for no seat belt. Asshole should have just bought a $3 chocolate. BUt, if he'd rolled down his window and heard me say "Sir your seat belt is sticking out your door" and fixed it and went on his way I probably wouldn't have remembered that at all though, so, I guess it happened for a reason. Maybe the reason was so 25 years later on some social media thing I couldn't even imagine back then, I could tell the story in a comment section and maybe make someone laugh, and possibly, get one of those awesome upvotes that are rather totally freakin fantastamazing.
First I looked at the comment, saw a lot of writing then though to myself, yeah, this guy already deserves a 10% for that effort. Then I read the damn story, it's a good story and I can assure you I've been through things like that as well. It's funny watching that instant karma stuff unfold right in front of us. I've seen instances of it here too. People are pricks and suddenly things just start going bad for them. ...but yeah, I rarely(never) vote when someone asks for it but I had to give you a 50% for this story. I'm sure others might enjoy reading it as well. I like this kind of stuff. Just people having fun. Nobody is getting shit or neglected for being "off topic" screw that. How are we supposed to have fun and relax when people are worried about what to say? Nobody flags me for rambling.... I might flag myself though for this one because I just keep going for what? Because my keys need to be pressed more? I don't know...
Your posts seem to have this weird effect on me of bringing up old memories. Prank phone calls and selling chocolates when I was 13ish lol IN this case, it was the part about doing nice things without wanting attention etc.. If the guy HAD let me do the "nice thing" and tell him about his belt hanging out the door, I never would have had this funny story to tell! My brain is weird... But hey at least it still works, sort of... Thanks BTW I don't normally ask for votes either, just seemed like a funny "reason" to attribute this all happening for, like God planned it all so I'd get an upvote 25 years later for trying to be a nice guy,the circle of life is complete! Dies at keyboard
None of this is directed toward me, I'm not nearly self centered enough to believe enjoying your posts for 1 month even comes close to what you've shared with other people but I was hoping provide an alternative perspective if you don't mind reading, what I predict will become, a wall of text.
1. The terrorists win.
People see the front page and believe that it's ok to be an arsehole and focus on the money, and worse yet they are lured here by money. I recently did a post (and will continue) trying to convince people they can't get money here (sorry for self promotion but wanted an example to say I'm trying). Working on changing the perception of steemit but for it to work
you need to stick aroundI need you to stick around. You so purely exemplify the beauty of what steemit should be, an anti-Haejin if you will. So simply put if you leave the terrorists win. Even if all you end up doing is posting pictures of cats in precarious situations at least your around, and your presence is a positive influence on steemit. And I don't need to know about your helping people to see that.2. I love your upvote
It's true, it is the standard I use to gauge a quality post vs the rest of the drivel I produce, you keep me honestish... But I'm less interested in the %, yes the more you like something I do the more you give but even 1% given means I got your attention which is something supremely valuable (to me). You do not give your attention freely, though I suppose a fart song isn't too stimulating, it is funny. To see the quality of your posts, and to know I can produce something that grabs the attention of someone of your caliber means I'm doing something right... admittedly rarely though.
3. I enjoy your posts
I could like and say I've thought more about your dick than I have my own but that's just not true. I think more about my dick than just about anything else, your dick is unique however. For three weeks running I have thought about your dick at least once per week. Which, for good or bad, has made me laugh one all occasions. No one else has been able to make me laugh at their dick as much as you have. Maybe you should change your description, am I an amazing judge? Probably yes.
Your posts are special on steemit, I know you only post the way something drives you, it's quite an emotional experience for you I think. And it's a emotional experience for me to read. But what makes it so good (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) is the reason you post. Some come to post for money, they whither and die, some post for themselves, they invariably find out they are boring and (hopefully) leave, you post for us. For those who will maybe read your post, maybe not. maybe skim through it with a ctrl + f to make sure you don't say dick anywhere so to avoid slowly turning gay, but irrespective of that I get a sense that you post for us, to entertain us, to share with us to steemit with us.
4. You are a reason to stay on steemit
Because of you and other people like you, who will probably never see the front page, I will remain on steemit swapping dick stories with whoever I can get to listen as I regale them with stories of @nonameslefttouse's old fella.
Idi.
I try to view a lot of posts in a day but often run out of time. If my vote isn't there, don't think it's because I didn't like the post. I follow a lot of people. Some days I can't keep up. Even trying to follow up on the comedy stuff while still attempting to support the people I've been trying to help for a long time... it's a lot. I'm pulled in many directions at once, plus I'm always trying to be here to respond. I have over 9000 posts. Majority of that isn't comments, it's responses. 75% I think... all responses.
It is. I post to an audience, like I'm on a stage. I've always treated it that way. I don't really know what to say though. I can't blog the way I do without a viewership. It would be pointless to sit here and do what I do if people weren't entertained. People come and talk after and I get to enjoy everyone's company. Plus I get to show off the art on the side. I dunno, I'm rambling... we all know what I do. You're right and I think I make it obvious enough.
And just to touch on a few more things you said.... So many people are leaving. All that SP is going into a few hands and they sell the votes so now there are far fewer people around to actually vote and view. It's counterproductive and just going to get worse and worse and I see many people taking hits financially here now because of it. It's fucked, to be honest. I've said everything I can say. Those plastic people like fucking Jerry are ruining this place with their fake ass smiles just as much as the self voting whales. The selfish shit is taking over, but they're shooting themselves in the foot. The ones fucking it up have the most to lose... so whatever. I'll just keep doing what I do even though some days it feels like the support is dwindling down to nothing. I'll try to keep finding a reason to stick around. If I think about these problems though.. I can't perform. Here... have a vote for your time. Thanks for the encouragement.
About Jerry, I really don't like him. It's not personal it's his face. Ok maybe it is personal. Yes he runs a bot but let's be honest too much SP is in too few hands and the bots even the playing field. People don't make money with the bots, not anymore but they do help to get attention. I won't convince you bots are good things because I myself am in 2 minds about it but I'm just not as vocal I guess.
But look at what else he does, he created the budget account where people can get delegations and donations for projects that require SP and steem which he funds from the bot and from his witness server. He's working to increase the amount of money witnesses outside the top 20 get. He's paying to build an steem exchange so you can buy steem directly. and a couple of other projects and they are good things. as much as I don't like his face I have to admit he's a positive influence for steem. He will help grow the value of steem (not necessarily price of steem).
You can read Taskmasters post, the SP is actually moving from Whales to smaller accounts. SP isn't in fewer and fewer hands but in more and more hands, it doesn't feel like it because everybody wants the attention of one big account but they don't realize if the person who controls the account goes on holiday they lose their earnings, and then what.
It's not all bleak, despite how it feels, promise. There is a good future for steemit.
Well, I did say people like Jerry. In other words: those selling the votes and using advertising techniques to do it. Creating a problem and offering a solution for a fee. They're paving the way to centralization, with a smile. People fall for it.
If I start buying votes, do you really think all of those people who haven't voted for me in the past will start voting for me just because I bought votes? If I see someone buying votes that tells me they don't need mine, they got it covered, so I look elsewhere. Besides, I don't like being misled into thinking something is popular and it sucks that I have to look at the voter list now before deciding to vote. The money, at one point, was a clear indication of high ratings. Now the money means nothing. If everyone places $50 beside their post, that makes $50 the new zero. It drives the value of the vote down, along with the value of our tokens. Value is based on belief and if $50 means nothing, we're all fucked.
That exchange you speak of has a huge flaw in the design. He said active members with high rep and many posts would qualify to use the service, not realizing people can buy rep and spam comments to exploit that "trust system." He used himself as an example as someone who would qualify and when I pointed out that he buys his reputation and spams blogs every time someone buys a vote, he denied it, but the proof is everywhere, so I wasn't impressed with that and it made me lose trust in him.
New members come along, they blog, they slowly start getting attention but many get sucked in to purchasing a vote and their wallets don't grow. If they do grow, it's at a snail pace. They don't give themselves credit for doing a good job, they think it's the money beside the post that did a good job. They end up feeling worthless because there's no reward feeling, then they quit or worse, they feel scammed and tell their friends. All of that could have been prevented if people would learn to start small and power up their earnings instead of handing it over to a middleman for no reason. We'd see faster account growth that way. People see my account and they don't realize it took a lot of work to get to this point. They just want it now so they look for shortcuts and people like Jerry and the others are there to sell their snake oil quick fix, that doesn't work. It's just watered down nonsense.
Me being here before this chaos means I can see the difference and the damage it's causing. New members can't, they're just products of their environment. They came here to make money and don't realize if you actually work for it, you earn more and you don't need someone pretending to hold your hand. People aren't even being encouraged to improve their performance because they can just give themselves a participation award and carry on feeling a false sense of satisfaction. That's why morale is down around here. The true rewarding feeling of EARNING a vote has been stripped away. I used to be in charge of a sizable staff. If I only paid people to show up to work, the business falls flat on it's face because productivity is low as there's no incentive to work.
Off topic, just dropping you a line.
I was wondering if there could be a way to indicate whether or not a comedyopenmic entry is a gif with a one liner. I don't usually vote for those and it's kind of annoying sifting through the entries trying to find original work. I realize the one liners are original but I can't vote for borrowed physical comedy. It's for the same reasons I won't vote for old jokes being copy/pasted.
Interesting idea. To introduce a short form / long form tag to allow people a prize for best short form comedy and best long form comedy... I don't think it can be so specific as to be one liner gif or something but maybe a short form category of less than 50 words.
Something like that work for you?
Now you're talking. That's what I'm looking for. Not to discourage anyone from sticking to their form, but just a way that makes it easy to find what I'm looking for. Right now it seems people are following the herd, but I know there are others who can offer something different and in a sense that's not really being encouraged. I can yap for 1000 words. Half of that is build up, the other half, laughs. The true comedy writers. There's a lot of us and I do see it... it's just hard to find. I don't want to step on any toes though, know what I mean? I know Punchline has a tag called 'funny-story', but I never use it, maybe I should... but specialized tags limit visibility, so it's hard for me to change, but maybe I should... or maybe I should just shut the fuck up... but yeah. Whatever I said up there. I tied into the wine shortly after sending that message. Don't mind me.
I'll talk with the other judges and see 8f they agree to the idea
Maybe you need a laundry goddess my friend. It may make your break less stressful as you pour the Tide. May your life be laundered and clean of stress. LOL
Those tide pods make things easy too.
I'm glad you're still managing to enjoy the good bits around despite all the flotsam :) I have only the vaguest idea what you're talking about as I sometimes hear about it on various chats or occasionally see a headline as someone I'm following is sharing an opinion, otherwise I actively ignore the trending page because...well...I stopped looking at it when I was in my second or third month in and it seems to have gotten worse in that time O_O
I'm starting to feel a little bit more wary of that SmartTV now. Did you manage to get your laundry done in the end?
And yeh I'm not sure about people that draw attention to the fact they're helping people. Shouldn't the helping part be enough? I think I'm with you on that one.
Well... I'm trying. I can't leave a decent response ... I'm tired. Sorry.. LOL
No worries, is it bedtime yet? Definitely is for me, but I'm being silly and staying up XD
I'm also trying to take a break but I don't know how.
Because if I wait even for a day who knows what shit will come to my mind and not sure if I will be able to sit down back to work again (That's why it's very good to have someone to watch your back if shit happens).
I'm just scared of myself. Maybe I will need to do some laundry with Tide to calm my mind.
You have to take a small notebook with you. I find that works better than a device. Recording ideas in voice is good too. When I was relaxing, I still had my laptop so I was writing down jokes as they came to mind. That's what the first half of the post is. Just one liners that popped up while watching TV. My mind is always going like that. Nonstop. It's hard for me to put this blog down. Really hard. I try to rest but I become restless.
Taking a notebook with me, haaa. That's actually a very smart choice.
I never thought about it (Well... maybe I thought but already forgot).
You do what makes you happy. You don't need to care what others think. I think it's great that you don't wait for anything to come up , instead you create your posts.
"Who smiles when they're doing laundry? Are they high from the Tide fumes? Did they take the pills the previous commercial was offering maybe? They didn't seem to be acting like they were suffering from a long list of side effects. What's going on here? "
Nice one there. I don't enjoy to do my laundry too. Thanks
Yeah, it's true, I basically just talk through my posts. Not always though. I just do whatever, I don't care. If someone has a problem with the effort I'll just point at the time I spent on the art. Just trying to have fun, air a few a things, whatever... I feel good. At least we don't have to go down to the river to do clothes though...
lol it's not the fumes ...they've been eating the damned pods
Those things are so tempting to eat. Apples? PFFF! Sure, an apple a day keeps the doctor away, they say. ...but what if I like doctors? How am I supposed to make friends with rich people if I don't eat Tide? If you can think of a better way, I'm all ears.
The few times I have ventured into the tending page I have come away with that feeling. It puts me off the place. A place I love, and enjoy interacting in. It's like a separate reality there. So I stay away.
You've put a smile on my face many times. Amused me, or given me something to ponder upon. And you are beyond generous with your votes. It's not my place to tell you whether to stick around, or not, or whatever you choose to do, but I was glad to see your post here today. And yes I read all the way to the end.
Everyone says, "Don't even look." I like to be informed, so I click...and I come out of there feeling like shit every single time. I have nothing to say about it. Just thinking about it brings me down. It doesn't represent what this place is at all. The reality is pretty damn close to the opposite. There's far more entertainment to be found if people would just look. If people think this place will fail, they heard it on the trending page... then that trickles down. Blah. I like just rambling and being a goof. I know it puts smiles on faces. That's why I do it. What else is there? I don't know... that's why I don't write about it.
I like to be informed too. And occasionally I hear something on the grapevine. Something I was oblivious of, and could have remained happily so. Until I follow up on the rumour, and so and so is fighting with another so and so, and whales are splashing about in the bath tub, like little brats. Or something like that.
Then I return to my little part of the empire, and stick to reading posts from those I like, and writing posts, and commenting. And then I remember this is what Steemit is. Until next drama gestates. I need to remind myself to ignore it.
So yes, lets not bring each other down. If you write it, and I see it, I will read it. And endeavour to let you know. Let's swim against that trending Tide.
Ah, you do your best work after a break! I actually belly laughed during the Tide segment.
The trending page and it's woes were frustrating me also. I did a picture rant and felt bad about my outburst. I really sat down to figure it out and for me, I found out I am frustrated because I also want to control how it goes. (The controller getting triggered by the controllers, kind of interesting isn't it) Anyway, I let go of that today. (Who knows how long it will last)
If it is about the money until communities, it is about the money. I can play that game too. But if I am going to say it is not about the money, I can't turn around and worry about the money.
Time for me to relax. I am not saying this is your struggle. We each have a unique vision. (It is just that mine is better than yours) So, for today, I let it go. (We will see what tomorrow brings)
Really great work today. I loved it.
Too many cooks in the kitchen, @whatsup. It's too much drama for me now. Even just reading. I can spend 5 minutes and end up disagreeing with 100 things. Fuck it. My hair was going gray in my late 20's, then it stopped, because I learned how to chill the fuck out. I think I'll stick to what I'm good at. Talking about Tide for no reason at all. It was funny. Laughing doesn't trigger people. I noticed this!
I smile when I do my laundry. I do, I swear. I love to watch the oblo turn around.
Also, the guy who threatened you to flag you, didn't he do it eventually? Why?
Tell us more!
Yes, I appreciate and I need your upvote. You are my main upvoter and together with a couple of people, if you stop upvote me I will just cry miserably in a corner for sometime.
This is not a weird time for me, it is the middle of the afternoon.
It's a weird time for me but look at all these views. I had 20 within the first few minutes and I didn't write a headline... Not many like to vote though... depressing, but whatever. I don't mind voting.
He didn't flag me. He was dwelling on the fact I flagged him for neglecting to offer a source and said he'd flag me for the same thing. Probably looked at my blog and felt like an idiot because I don't images from the internet, I make my own and credit myself.. LOL! We talked it out but that doesn't take away the fact he's kind of a whiner who showed me his true colors that day. Whatever though, I don't care. That's how they act here. I expected it.
I think I might actually go to sleep now. Soon anyway. I got all these views but my support just keeps dropping and dropping. FUCK does that ever suck. If I ditched your posts, you wouldn't like it. Look what's happening to me. It's devastating.... Maybe I'll stop posting and just curate so everyone else is happy at least LOL.
WTF is happening? 6 weeks ago your posts were upvoted till 70$ and then it went lower and lower?
You go to sleep I am drawing a big fat cock that I will post it in 12 hours, when for you is a normal time.
And don't stop posting.
I don't know what's happening. Nobody said anything. Combine all this stuff together...and dammit it's hard to keep doing this. ...but I need to sleep.
Oh I just checked it is mainly steemteam that doesn't upvote you anymore!
Oh well, nevermind. You are still doing pretty well!