{"id":2498,"date":"2009-05-24T16:16:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T23:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2009-05-24T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T23:16:27","slug":"why-my-blog-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/why-my-blog-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why my blog sucks: an OBVIOUSLY objective look at my blog and blogging in general in a post with a very long title that ultimately will be used to support an amazingly pointless argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the pinnacle of my faggotry: with nobody else to troll, I turn on myself and will eventually succumb to my own trolling nature, causing this blog to implode, setting off a chain reaction of blog explosions which will ultimately destroy the aniblog community as we know it. \u00a0In the confusion, I will take control of Dannychoo and become a legend[ary retard].<\/p>\n<p>tl;dr: This is a cynical post about aniblogging. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1>Bad blog name<\/h1>\n<p>Who the hell cares for a blog named &#8220;Mikotoism?&#8221;  After since\u00a0<em>To Aru Majutsu no Index<\/em>\u00a0ended, nobody except me even remembers who Mikoto is. \u00a0Thus until <em>To Aru Kagaku no Railgun<\/em> comes out, &#8220;Mikotoism&#8221; is a failure title for this shitty blog.<\/p>\n<h3>The history of my blog title<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>One day, I wanted a new blog<\/li>\n<li>I made Mikotoism spontaneously<\/li>\n<li>????<\/li>\n<li>FAILURE\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Without much thought, I just dubbed this blog Mikotoism. \u00a0Who the hell would do that? \u00a0If you really want viewers to come back, give &#8217;em a blog name that stands out, not some shitty &#8220;Mikotoism&#8221; crap.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost as bad as a blog with only Japanese characters for a name! \u00a0Who&#8217;s going to remember that?! \u00a0I bet there <a href=\"http:\/\/mononoaware.concretebadger.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">ain&#8217;t<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jphinano.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">one<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/kojioe.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">single<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wakarimasenlol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> with $@)*@!) (pretend those were japanese characters) for a name that has more than the one hundred views from the ten-people-who-actually-understand-japanese-and-read-english-aniblogs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1>Copypasta theme<\/h1>\n<p>Look at this shitty theme. \u00a0Mistylook? \u00a0You kiddin&#8217; me?  Just about <a href=\"http:\/\/kielmaru07.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">every<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/porkcutlets.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">wordpress.com<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/manime.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">aniblogger<\/a> uses this theme. \u00a0It makes this blog look like a huge piece of plagarised junk. \u00a0And don&#8217;t go pointing out the obvious in that last sentence &#8211; I know I&#8217;m unoriginal.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re trying to get some viewers, you don&#8217;t go pick the most standard wp.com theme for your blog. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t hold your readers&#8217; attention because everybody who&#8217;s nobody has that same exact theme, and you ain&#8217;t standing out at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mikotoism\/status\/1868589974\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mikotoism\/status\/1868589974<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1>Badly-planned posts<\/h1>\n<p>Look at this shitty post. \u00a0There ain&#8217;t a single picture at the top to attract viewers. \u00a0Who&#8217;s going to read this crappy post if they ain&#8217;t interested by some awesome picture at the top? \u00a0Readers don&#8217;t like massive blocks of text, you know! \u00a0You <em>have<\/em> to have a ton of pictures so that people will actually read a few lines!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and what&#8217;s up with the title? \u00a0Long ass title that nobody cares about. \u00a0If I saw that on Anime Nano, I&#8217;d just skip over the thing because it&#8217;s too damn long to read. \u00a0Who the hell cares about your stupid titles? \u00a0Desperately making a title of a post fit the post? \u00a0Shameful.<\/p>\n<p>Inserting some random shit at the top? \u00a0What the hell is that supposed to do, purposely deter would-be readers? \u00a0Is anybody really going to be interested in this post if all I have before the break is a random paragraph that has is nearly entirely non-sequitur? \u00a0Hell no. \u00a0I, for one, wouldn&#8217;t read this post if I was offered money to. \u00a0Instead of a picture at the top, there&#8217;s a random block of text that doesn&#8217;t do shit except take up room in a failed attempt to attract viewers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1>Bad sidebar<\/h1>\n<p>Look over to the right and tell me what you see.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right &#8211; a shitty sidebar filled with numerous widgets that nobody cares about. \u00a0Hit counter, RSS feed, recent tweets, recent comments, blogroll, categories, DC feed, and blog aggregator promotions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hit counter? \u00a0That&#8217;s just there for me to reveal the extent of my e-peen. \u00a0Does anybody except me really care about how many hits I get? \u00a0No way.<\/li>\n<li>RSS feed. \u00a0Well, do I <em>really<\/em> need to put up a link to feedburner? \u00a0Hell no, because it&#8217;s pretty damn useless. \u00a0I&#8217;m just doing it because everybody else is.<\/li>\n<li>Tweets. \u00a0I guess people could click on it and subscribe to me on twitter, but does that matter? \u00a0Nothing I say on twitter is even informative or interesting anyway.<\/li>\n<li>Recent comments are for fags. \u00a0It&#8217;s just saying &#8220;LOOK AT HOW MANY PEOPLE VISIT MY SITE AND COMMENT.&#8221; \u00a0As if my hit counter wasn&#8217;t enough already&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>My Blogroll is up there for people with larger e-peens than me to link back to me. \u00a0I obviously do not read the blogs on my blogroll. \u00a0I just put them up there for the bloggers to feel obligated to link back to me so I can achieve a larger e-peen.<\/li>\n<li>Categories are the only thing that viewers really care about. \u00a0My category list is too damn long, so it defeats the purpose of having a category widget.<\/li>\n<li>DC feed. \u00a0I don&#8217;t even go to dannychoo.com that much. \u00a0The site is too confusing. \u00a0Yet I still have his feed up on my site for Mikotoism to appear on otaku.fm. \u00a0I am such an e-peen hoar.<\/li>\n<li>Blog aggregator promotions. \u00a0A few weeks ago, I had four times as many link icons. \u00a0I realized that they were completely useless in my neverending quest for internet fame, so I cut them. \u00a0Now it&#8217;s even more obvious that nano, blips, and otaku.fm are my sole sources of hits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1>Useless pages<\/h1>\n<p>I have three pages: About, Blogged Series, and Mikotoism.<\/p>\n<p>The About page is obligatory. \u00a0Every blog in the world HAS to have one, because everybody wants to know how old you are, how smart you are, and your sexual disposition. \u00a0Sadly, I do not show any of those three in my about page, so it&#8217;s pretty much useless except for bragging rights (&#8220;I HAVE AN ABOUT PAGE SO I&#8217;M A PRO BLOGGER LOLO&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>My &#8220;Blogged Series&#8221; page is pretty useless. \u00a0I originally intended for it to be an index of episodic posts for people who watch the episode later and wonder what I felt about it. \u00a0Good concept, but shitty execution. \u00a0Nobody reads this blog, so nobody really cares what my feelings are about specific episodes. \u00a0Besides, 99% of the &#8220;episodic&#8221; posts I&#8217;ve listed on that page are troll posts and\/or useless posts.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, &#8220;Mikotoism.&#8221; \u00a0This has got to be the most useless page on Earth. \u00a0Besides attracting views (8th most popular post\/page), it&#8217;s completely and entirely useless. \u00a0Nobody cares about it, and I myself have only seen it three times: once right after I typed it up, and twice to comment on comments people made.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1>Lack of a good author<\/h1>\n<p>Look at me. \u00a0My sense of humor is drier than the Sahara Desert. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know what dry humor means or where the Sahara Desert is, but the point still stands that my futile attempts to get people to laugh are just that &#8211; futile. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know the first thing about humor, only that it&#8217;s supposed to make people laugh, and mine clearly doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>My posting is erratic. \u00a0This ain&#8217;t an episodic blog, but I type up countless episodic posts that nobody cares about. \u00a0I also type up pointless essays like <a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/19\/the-importance-of-kyon\/\" target=\"_blank\">the one on Kyon<\/a>. \u00a0Some of my posts <a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/20\/tayutama-05\/\" target=\"_blank\">have two words<\/a>, and some of my posts have <a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/24\/why-my-blog-sucks\/\" target=\"_blank\">over nine thousand<\/a>. \u00a0I can&#8217;t play the meme game, either.<\/p>\n<p>I try desperately to get e-peen, even at the cost of blogging for myself. \u00a0I blog for you guys, my readers. \u00a0I make sensational titles and rant about stuff just to get people talking and commenting on my blog so I can feel very special. \u00a0I don&#8217;t actually think that <em>Akikan!<\/em> was bad. \u00a0Hell, <em>Kurokami<\/em> is one of the best anime I&#8217;ve seen to date! \u00a0<em>Mars of Destruction<\/em> should be hailed as the greatest animated work of the past century, and the century to come!<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, I don&#8217;t even blog for fun. \u00a0Blogging for me is a hassle. \u00a0I hate blogging more even than I hate watching anime. \u00a0I hate watching anime. \u00a0Anime sucks. \u00a0Except <em>Mars of Destruction<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/snapshot20090512225440.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2484\" style=\"border:0 initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/snapshot20090512225440.jpg?resize=480%2C270\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This post in a nutshell:<br \/>\nI make short comments about blogging in just about every other post I do.  I thus decided to collect all of my thoughts on blogging and mash them into one themed post for the hell of it.  The end.  Or as many anime like to put it, <em>fin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer for any people who did not realize my epic trolling skillz, yo:<br \/>\nThis post is obviously a gigantic product of my troll mind.  Most of this isn&#8217;t true, but most of it is directed at blogging and its good and bad parts.<\/p>\n<p>I actually think this post turned out really well. \u00a0THIS IS EVIDENCE OF HOW AWESOME I CAN BE, GUYZ. \u00a0IM ACUALY A GENUIS DEEP DOWN INSYD [but really, I think that this, the Kyon post, and my &#8220;top 5&#8221;\u00a0post are the best things I&#8217;ve ever posted] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the pinnacle of my faggotry: with nobody else to troll, I turn on myself and will eventually succumb to my own trolling nature, causing this blog to implode, setting off a chain reaction of blog explosions which will ultimately destroy the aniblog community as we know it. \u00a0In the confusion, I will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zM4X-Ei","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}