The Endangered Art of Blogging

Catchy hooks, generic subjects and mediocre coverage, all of these things actually get immense views to your content.

It seems like people aren’t reading to inform themselves but to conform to the most proximate theory they can wrap their heads around. Or maybe it was always like this. Internet just amplified this effect.

This is particularly true after two sortof revolutions in the content field: 1) SEO based writing 2) AI Slop Articles.

SEO based writing pushed people to write stuff that search engines pushed. Search engines worked on what was clickable stuff. So either something extreme / polarizing or something relatable, something of that sort that would get the clicks.

AI based writing pushed people to be on content cycles. Reading an AI Slop article is like talking to a mechanical robot. You feel like you’ve read something but you never actually understood anything. It’s vague, diplomatic & weird. It’s so non-personal that you can sense that an AI must have written it. Far from the conversational English & tonality, it shifts to a weird sort of ornamental but mechanical English. Apart from that, there’s no fencing of concepts. The content could be understood as anything but not distinctively something that’s distinguishable from others. AI tries to say everything at once, which results in saying nothing at all.

People aren’t writing to express. It’s all the numbers game now. They wanna get heard and get some visibility. Some want to make money and for that they’re in a way, forced to take a mathematically calculated route of SEO Optimization & AI Slop Schedule Cycled Articles. Nothing wrong about that, except, it’s not interesting in my humble opinion.

Me? I’m more interested in the old school blogging style. I don’t want to be gramatically correct. I don’t want to be smart or clever. I want to express what I’m thinking while using clear articulation.