Your Metablogging is Lame as Hell
If you were to make a discovery feed bingo card, what do you think would fill up the squares? Some post that could basically be summarized in the sentence "lol, just blog, queen!"? Some post jacking off how great Bear is for the upteenth time1? How someone quit social media and got their life back?
I found this article from 2 years ago and it still feels relevant today. It may seem ironic of me to be criticizing metablogging, when I've probably done it a couple times. Hell this post might even be considered metablogging. Something something criticizing society something something living in one.
Metablogging, to me, has 2 definitions. Meta-blogging, i.e. the self-referential sorta way (blogging about bear itself, or the act of blogging). Or metablogging in the sense of trying to make your post fit all the checkmarks of what hits the top of the discover feed. Sometimes these definitions become one in the same for some posts, example being the "Omg isn't Bear just swell guys!?"
I tend to see either on the discover feed a bit and it gets kinda annoying because it feels so artificial. Like is this REALLY what you're passionate about? A 10 sentence post telling people "omg, like slow down guys!" for the upteenth fucking time? It almost comes across like the discovery feed has a tendency to become a circle jerk of sorts. The frequency of the metablog post is so satirically formulaic that chatGPT could conjure up one in a second and it would fit right at home.
It's fucking lame.
You might be reading this and already can think of someone you've seen on the discovery feed more than once. Someone who 90% of their content seemingly is fabricated to hit front page of the discover feed. Someone who a chunk of their postings are just "No blog? Blog anyway!". Hell even in the post from Jeff's blog I linked, chatGPT literally spat this type of post out. These blogs come off as a low-effort content farm rather than someone's personal space. You probably know precisely who I'm throwing casual shade at.
I love posts like this one about an awkward teenage bird because it's literally just someone being really excited about this dopey looking bird. And the blog itself is just so cool.
THIS is what I wanna see on discover, I wanna see real people actually talking about shit they're into or what's bothering them, where they're at in life. I've written about this in my ironically, very-meta-sounding post "Nobody Cares, Write Anyway" where I'm practically begging people to not abandon their more mundane posts about their lives just to functionally sell their soul to try and consistently hit the discover feed.
Look, metablogging is fine every once in a while if it's genuinely what someone is passionate about and it's clear that they've put a lot of thought into it. It becomes lame when someone could feasibly win Metablog BINGO with your post. Don't be like that.
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as of writing this...
I've been writing 2 different blog posts at the same time. This one, and another about how I'm betting GTA VI will be a disappointment and my gripes with Rockstar's formula. Sat and watched most of The Great Dictator yesterday and I had a great time. It's still funny even for a very old movie. It's even crazier that a movie satirizing Hitler was being made all the way back in 1940. It's even crazier some of the jokes become tragic when you realize how the movie almost predicted the atrocities that were committed. I kinda want my German friends to watch it, because the nonsensical German that Chaplin speaks sounds nuts to someone who can't speak German, so I can only imagine how it sounds to someone who CAN speak German.
Bear IS great don't get me wrong, but why do posts yapping about how great it is consistently come up on discover?↩