sometimes my dumbest posts get the most toasts
I sometimes spend considerable time and energy thinking about a topic, writing it, and editing my post before publishing. These are posts I am extremely proud of, that I tend to feel are meaningful, and ones that I really want people to see. They usually get less than 5 toasts, and sometimes none lol.
And then I throw out some shit like Windows removed the calculator wtf and it gets 61 toasts lol.
I get it kinda. Like everybody knows the windows calculator, except some poor bastards who only ever used google as a calculator. Its short and sweet and it resonates with this trend of software decline that basically everyone experiences at least sometimes. (I didn't know I hated the word enshittification until I typed it. I rephrased lol)
Now, if you look at my top 19 posts below, they're not all silly shit. Several are about bearblog things. My charlie kirk post and orgasm posts are both meaningful to me. I forgot about my 'internet is different now' post, but that's somewhat meaningful too.
But this critical analysis of news reporting got no toasts & its genuinely one of my favorite posts I've ever written. This "Wild" animals post only got one toast and - to toot my own horn - its quite insightful lol. And my other self-described best posts generally don't perform that well. (I didn't realize that several of them actually get 10ish toasts which does weaken what I'm saying here)
And that's okay. Like. I don't need all of my good posts to get a ton of eyes on them. (okay i do quite like it when my meaningful posts get toasts) A lot of my writing is, in part, a way for me to think and put my own thoughts together. But idk. It's just funny. It's just funny how some silly things REALLY resonate with people and some meaningful things just ... don't. Idk.
P.S. See Sort Bear Analytics by Toast Count