None of this is out of hatred for those who follow this blog or find its themes fascinating. For that I need to cut myself away from what I have been doing and really find myself. Or to put it another way, I need to sort a lot of things out. To spare you the rabbit hole of a emotion-driven rant, I’ll just say that I’ve defaulted back to the “why bother” state of mind that allows me to deflect responsibilities that I deem unnecessary, but now with far more nihilism. I’ve been depressed long before I came here and that has evolved into bitterness, resentment, and even budding misanthropy. Meanwhile, there’s my changing attitude towards… well, everything. It’s a shame, because as we know the other social media giants have evolved into nasty, unscrupulous little blights on civilization that are only tolerated by anyone who needs to hustle their craft. But on top of the infamous adult ban and poor enforcement of it, the architecture is falling apart and I wouldn’t be surprised if the remaining staff at headquarters is a skeleton crew of bored techies and some suits pushing it all into Internet Hospice. The microblog with loose restrictions and a traditional blog format with the benefit of easier exposure. Simply put, this place is the last of a dying breed and I don’t think it has much longer. Which brings me to the world of social media as a whole, starting with Tumblr. But things aren’t how they were when I first started. After years of putting pressure on myself to take things a couple steps further with my finds (subtle links between games monthly themes) I feel I had begun to phone in what had gone from a hobby to a data entry job that I didn’t get paid for.Īnd I’m going to miss it.
When I came back, I knew that it was time to wind things down: almost everything I shared this year came from the draft folder with almost nothing special between them. At the time, I had become burned out from digging up daily content and getting it ready for the week. To get away from the drama and the comparisons that I have adopted as being a cultural norm. Seeing some posts get a modest amount of popularity for striking a nostalgic chord did make me feel that I was doing something right and for awhile I was thinking I would never stop doing this.Īt the start of 2020 you may remember that I took a month off to recoup: to distance myself from online life for awhile.
Almost 29,000 denizens displayed an interest in what I had to offer, and I’m certain at least 2/3 of them weren’t bots. Surprisingly, it turns out that there is always an interest for video games and related media, even in the saturated ‘market’ of this niche of media commentators. Another opinion to be drowned out by the masses another “content curator” to fall down the cracks. When I started this Tumblr back in 2013, I didn’t think there would be ‘room’ on the Internet for another video game blog.
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