How The Cookie Cutters Got Me Down
Warning: if you lot larn offended yesteryear this post, you're belike business office of the grouping I'm talking about. Don't receive got this equally a personal attack, let's receive got a civil give-and-take inward the comments instead :)
Like everything inward life, the blogging community is constantly changing. I've been around since belatedly 2012 together with receive got seen a lot of change. YouTube became the substitution to meshing success, existence on every unmarried social media platform became necessary, pictures became to a greater extent than of import than writing to a lot of people, you lot call it together with I've been through it. Yet I never felt similar at that topographic point wasn't a house for me anymore. Things changed together with I dealt alongside it. Until i tendency completely got me down: cookie cutter blogs.
Admit it, nosotros all know at to the lowest degree i blogger alongside a cookie cutter blog: a weblog alongside the same content equally 90% of all blogs inward its item niche, written inward the same way together with alongside equally much originality together with grapheme equally a blank slice of paper. These cookie cutters receive got ever been around, but lately they seem to receive got larn to a greater extent than prominent together with acquaint inward my newsfeeds together with timelines. What's more: these are precisely the form of blogs that somehow blow upward inside a month. In the meantime, I'm working difficult to tell compelling stories nearly places together with things that would otherwise larn overlooked. I effort to create people who read my weblog experience similar they were at that topographic point alongside me when I was traveling through Southeast Asia. I effort to create my excitement together with beloved for comics together with books tangible. I promise to opened upward people's eyes to the amazing street fine art they otherwise would receive got walked yesteryear without fifty-fifty noticing. And for what? To meet a production review of mascara, a production review that gives the exact same information inward the exact same note of vocalization equally hundreds of other blogs, larn at to the lowest degree iii times the number of views together with comments equally the postal service I wrote alongside all my heart. Not the best thing for your self-esteem together with motivation, allow me tell you lot that.
I became real pessimistic together with bitter over the course of education of this winter, when I saw to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than cookie cutter blogs blow upward or grow to a M followers inward no time. I had no thought how they did it, acre I was working my donkey off to meet null progress. And I wasn't the alone one. I saw the same thing reach off alongside some of my talented friends. I was glad to larn away from all that for ix days when I went on opor-garai final month: the meshing is a luxury inward Cuba, i I didn't attention for during my stay. Those ix days were spent inward ignorant bliss. No blogger drama, no overhyped bloggers who were basically all repeating each other, no cookie cutters making me experience inadequate. That ignorant bliss ended the infinitesimal I fix pes on Dutch put down again. As shortly equally I opened Twitter, it all came back. Had I been able to plough a blind oculus to for sure cookie cutter behaviour before, I forthwith couldn't ignore it whatever longer. I was almost crying tears of frustration when I saw some of the things people tweet nearly blogging together with existence a blogger these days. It made me desire to conk dorsum to internetless Republic of Cuba correct away.
Over the course of education of the side yesteryear side few days, I tried to larn dorsum into the whole blogging thing, but failed. As you lot mightiness know, I've been inward therapy for an inferiority complex, thence insecurity volition ever live my Achilles heel. That's precisely where cookie cutter blogs unknowingly hitting me alongside posts together with tweets. Wherever I looked I saw statements like: "You receive got to conk self-hosted together with create your DA upward or brands volition never function alongside you", "WordPress is the alone house to larn successful equally a blogger" or "Are you lot fifty-fifty a blogger if you lot don't receive got OOTD pics inward front end of colorful doors inward London?".
I gauge brands volition never function alongside me then, I prefer Blogger thence patently I'm going to live unsuccessful yesteryear default together with hello? I don't alive inward London. I don't fifty-fifty alive inward the UK. And I loathe taking pictures of the clothe I'm wearing. Does that create me whatever less of a blogger? My rational heed would say 'no', but that insecure business office of me started to doubt. Because these things were all said yesteryear bloggers who were thence much to a greater extent than successful than I am, thence mayhap they were correct later on all. Maybe I was only a failure of a blogger. I kept thinking, overthinking together with doubting. I did this thence much that I wanted to surrender on blogging. More together with to a greater extent than statements similar these popped upward on my timeline. This coincided alongside follow educate later on follow educate together with a seismic sea wave of blogging cliche's existence shared ("Every blogger is amazing, you lot are thence amazing, followers don't affair equally long equally you're having fun"). Now I receive got aught against motivational tweets, but seeing the same motivational tweet over together with over over again alongside alone slight changes inward wording makes people on Twitter facial expression similar faulty re-create machines. You tin give the axe figure out why I dislike follow trains for yourself. What frustrated me most, however, was that these tactics of follow trains together with platitude tweets worked for people. Cookie cutters imitating re-create machines were growing similar crazy together with I... I was nearly to throw inward the towel.
For nearly 2 weeks I was relatively serenity online together with lived offline. I went to Black Panther, started recycling cans together with plastic bottles to heighten money for a charity that cleans upward the plastic soup, I went H2O ice skating together with booked a trip to State of Israel together with Jordan. I thought nearly pulling the plug on . Then my mom helped me realize me together with my weblog aren't my problem. Twitter is.
Cookie cutters volition ever live around. Their presence on Twitter together with the know-it-all-attitudes that some people on that platform receive got tend to larn me downwards though. Whenever I scroll through Twitter, all I practise is compare myself together with experience awful nearly non plumbing equipment into the thought of what a expert blogger is. I'm non ashamed to acknowledge that I'm sometimes jealous of the success recycled content gets. I'm non maxim you're non allowed to write nearly things someone else likes to write about. Neither am I maxim you lot can't live inspired yesteryear someone else's posts or only live similar to some other blogger. But alongside plagiarism existence a existent number lately together with some people pumping out passionless posts, I practise experience awful when I pour my view together with soul into a postal service nearly how Cuba is aught similar you'd ever expect gets seen yesteryear nearly 10 to twenty people.
I can't roll my heed around plagiarism together with cliches getting thence much fourth dimension of day, but I don't desire to waste product whatever to a greater extent than fourth dimension thinking nearly cookie cutter blogs. I allowed cookie cutter blogs to larn me down, but non anymore. From forthwith on I'm going to focus on writing the best weblog posts I can, fifty-fifty if that way they'll never live read yesteryear to a greater extent than than twenty people. Because my mom was correct when she said: "You write for you lot together with your followers. It doesn't affair how many followers you lot write for. What matters is that you lot tell stories that are truthful to who you lot are." And telling those stories is precisely what I'm going to do, forthwith together with always.
x Envy
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