It’s funny when you think you know your audience and know what gets them excited and talking, and what goes pretty much unnoticed. But you don’t.

You know nothing Jon Snow!

I’ve been at this for almost two years on the daily and I still get surprised by some of the responses to my posts. That only goes to show that consistently putting out material, different kinds of material, is good because you’ll never know in advance what works really well. Of course luck and chance have something to do with it also, but regardless, the results are hard to predict.

I have ordered myself to do two posts per day, no matter what kind of posts, but there has to be two. Sometimes I put effort into good photography, sometimes I do a shitpost, and when I have nothing else, I just write what I have been doing that day. The two latter being something I never expect to do well in terms of engagement, but what quite often surprise me with how good of a response I receive from them.

Sometimes it makes me mad that, in my opinion, a boring and half-assed post does really good, and then some quality content that I really like and use hours and hours into making, just gets a couple of wankers commenting. _{I’m exaggerating, calm your tits, I appreciate all of you.}

I’ve mentioned this before but I measure the level of success on a particular post by the amount of comments, instead of rewards. Of course if something goes to trending all of a sudden, that does tell me something, but overall as most of the upvotes are automated, the comments are where I can see the real value of my post. I’m often most excited when I see someone new in my comment section, or someone who doesn’t engage often, uses his/her time to comment to me.

Sometimes I try to push myself to only do really good posts, but then why do I bother when a shitpost gets the most engagement. I guess I’ll just keep doing the most random posts and you’ll never know what comes next, and I’ll never know how it is received. Such exciting times we live!