“There are far worse things awaiting man than death”
Is anybody out there? It doesn’t seem so anymore.
My most recent post, which I published three days ago, has had a record zero views. While all my posts admittedly only usually get a handful of visitors, this bleak lack of turnout feels like the final nail in my motivation’s coffin.
I put a lot of effort into those words too, as I always do. As we all should do.
While I know this may read like a petulant hissy-fit by a deranged shut-in, which I suppose it is, the intention is really more of a grim acceptance of how much the social landscape of the internet has changed since the mid-90s.
It is now clear that social media truly is dead. Search engines used to be there to promote websites, now websites are simply there to feed search engines and their AI training bots. I thought something like: “Don’t be evil”, was written into one of their mission statements. Anyway, all the people social media was invented to get away from have piled onboard and are now sadly in charge.
Which means it’s all over.
How fucking depressing.
Perhaps I shall return again in another eight years, with long hair and a luscious beard and sporting desert-friendly robes, but who honestly will be there to read my mediocre words?
In the meantime, I guess you can get AI software to write my articles for you. Those are my only readers/scanners now anyway.
See you in the wasteland, darlings.
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