#life

I Have A Little Secret To Share With Everyone!

NoNamesLeftToUse@nonameslefttouse (77)2577d

^{So, I'm currently bored out of my fucking mind again!}

My feed ain't feeding me!

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I Follow Hundreds of Accounts

^{So why can't I find some entertainment, whenever the hell I feel like voting?}

Oh yeah! I remember now!

It's because nearly everyone quit!

But YOU

^{Yes. YOU.}

You're still here! Right?!?!? ^{^Right?}

These crickets need to stop bothering me!

^{Everywhere I go. Chirp chirp chirp.}

I'll get serious now, if that's possible.

Many moons ago, yours truly, @NoNamesLeftToUse The Writer/Artist Himself, began this strange and sometimes pointless journey of content discovery.

I had noticed a pattern.

Many of the creative writers, outsider artists, and entertainer types; they either stopped producing what they had originally came here to produce, so they could chase the money, and fail. Or they simply quit because of the struggles many with actual talent face when they arrive here and try to put up with this shit.

It's not easy to write up a short story, or a new chapter for your novel. Producing art or processing photographs takes many hours. Writing jokes and skits is humiliating. Without the right crowd there to read, enjoy, and hopefully laugh; that writer could easily spiral into a severe state of depression.

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I know all about it.

^{And it only gets worse when you've worked your ass off and nobody even notices.}

I'm sure you've heard about 'tribes' by now. If not, well, that's because you don't pay attention or you haven't been around lately.

There are 'official' curators within these tribes; and then there are people like me. 100% independent, do whatever the hell I want, kinda people.

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Right now, I feel, this:

https://www.creativecoin.xyz

^{That, is the current home for all things 'entertaining' on the STEEM blockchain.}

I've been here nearly three years and I've met hundreds of entertaining people. Our work would always get buried on Steemit. Anywhere else on the internet, television, printed word; entertainment is huge and typically attracts the largest viewership/readership.

Don't get me wrong, I still give a shit about Steemit. Steemit simply can't get organized, yet. So now, if I want to find entertainment, I go straight to https://www.creativecoin.xyz, and have a look-see.

It's still quite new. I think I'm on my third week of producing content to be viewed on https://www.creativecoin.xyz, as well as a few other places.

The 'tribes' are working well for me. I've had my work show up in the top slots of every tribal trending page I've produced content for. #palnet, I've hit number one. #neoxian, I've hit number one. #steemleo, I've hit number one. #steemace, same thing, number one slot. #creativecoin, loving it. The best part is: I didn't even know most of these people before I stepped foot inside their domains, and when you trend, 40-50% of the rewards go right back into the community, so you don't leave feeling like the selfish sack of shit who took the last cookie.

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Moving Along

^{Because rambling...}

The people behind https://www.creativecoin.xyz did not put me up to this. I'm not here to shill any tokens. I just want to make my life easier so...

And by Mars,

^{he means https://www.creativecoin.xyz.}

For some fucked up reason I staked well over 15000 of these CCC tokens and that means my vote is currently somewhere around the 20^th most valuable; but that can all change pretty fast since I'm noticing more folks moving up the ranks, daily. Obviously they're seeing what I'm seeing, and of course more curators means more happy producers.

So, yeah. I have a lot of tokens and plan on staking more.

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And that means I'm looking for some good shit to vote for.

^{I'm fussy and I miss all you fuckers who left and took your talents with you.}

I'm not really interested in the five times per day here's my ONE boring photo post crowd. The here's the thing I made and now I'll distract you with my mile long signature I copy/paste into every post for some stupid reason crowd doesn't appeal to me either. I'm always hunting for actual talent and actual content. Not really interested in the social media style post, I'm more interested in the online magazine article style post.

I love a photography post when it's creative, unique, shows me things and places I'm unfamiliar with, and comes fully equipped with a write-up along with many photos.

Any creative writing is cool with me, even if it's a true story about your life, presented in a creative fashion. Telling me you walked your fucking dog today and sat in the park is not creative. Once you add a bunch of unnecessary details into that story, then things get interesting. Some of the best 'life' writing is only loosely based on life. Even the most uneventful day can turn into something awesome just by paying attention to the small things, and making them bigger.

I like art but I prefer oddities, trippy shit, anything bizarre. I enjoy the outsiders who develop their own styles. I think, when it comes to art, I don't follow the art. I follow interesting artists. Adding your own personality to each post makes it more appealing to me. I want to see what you have made more than what has been made, if that makes sense.

Humor. All forms of humor are cool with me but if it's a low effort post, I probably won't vote. I can handle profanity like any mature adult. Comedy can be filthy at times and that's fine with me.

Also, entertainment isn't all about happy feelings and smiles. Horror stories, thriller stuff, twisted shit, dark humor; I like those things.

All of those things are more than welcome within the 'creativecoin' tribe.

Also, keep in mind: Just because I don't like something, that doesn't mean everyone thinks the same way. There are more curators with different tastes and many of them might enjoy the things I don't like.

So, relax, be yourself, do your thing. I've been doing mine for years and I know for a fact those who don't like it will always outnumber those who do; humiliation comes with the territory. That's just how it is. Can't impress everyone but you won't impress anyone unless you try.

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So why am I going on and on and on...

^{And on and on and on about this?}

Well, I guess I'm kind of hoping many of you who left, can see these words, and the potential here. There's also a lot of talented creative writers, artists, photographers, musicians out there who aren't using the 'creativecoin' tag, and that annoys me because I don't feel like creating multiple accounts and micromanaging my life to death, just to make your life easier.

The current best combination of tags to use to get the most out of my vote would be: 'creativecoin', 'palnet', and 'neoxian'; along with some actual tags that describe the content within. Enter in the actual content tags first and the tribe tags last. That helps with content discovery and organization.

When I vote, I'm looking for community builders. I skip all of the tag spammers and folks who constantly sell at these ridiculously low values. People willing to put some work in now, while the project is still a baby, stake a few tokens, so there's a future platform for the next generation to enjoy. Those who plant the seeds now so they can enjoy the abundance of fruit later are the ones I prefer to do business with and are the most valuable to the community, especially early on.

Over the years I'd always hear people complaining about how hard it is to earn visibility, followers, and tokens. These 'tribes' in their infancy offer all those folks a fresh start. I've been quietly recruiting a few folks, to test things out and see if their quality of life as a content producer will improve. I think it's safe to say, some have noticed a difference. More comments, more new followers, and a few more dollars. These things all add up to a healthy blog, over time.

Some folks view the future SMT and 'communities' as direct competition to these 'tribes' but I feel building healthy communities now only gives these healthy communities a head start when it comes time to benefit from SMTs and communities, since we won't have to start from scratch.

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Anyway!

^{This post is boring!}

I don't need to sit back and wait for someone else to help get the word out. 'Creativecoin' isn't about that quilt grandma made and I think there's been some confusion about what kind of content is allowed within the group.

I also want it make it clear: I'm not planning to waste my votes on shit posts and reward milkers. Sure, if you want to spend all day spamming and not earning anything, fine. You could spend the same amount of time on one solid post and actually get somewhere. Your life is up to you though and I understand some folks like to stay down at the bottom.

Wow!

^{Okay, that's enough yapping.}

Have a nice day.

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Credits:

^{Youtube videos linked to sources.}

All art and images seen here were produced digitally, by me.

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^{"I'll return to your regularly scheduled nonsense when I can make sense of my schedule."}

Comments · 23

@artisticscreech(65)· 2576d
I might check it out. I find that showing up on "the first day" is often key to success.
@arcange(79)· 2576d
Congratulations @nonameslefttouse! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:
- Comments - Ranked 5 with 60 comments
@kansuze(69)· 2577d
"I'm not dead yet!" Just a week of company.
@ginnyannette(69)· 2577d
I’m not usually the party pooper around here, and maybe I am just a skeptic from being a bit burned out writing here. That said…

…I don’t really think the creativecoin tribe is going to help all creatives, specifically writers, that much. You think creativecoin, you think music and art. We need our own niche, or even better, a nonfiction niche. Maybe there is something out there I don’t know about?

I have been bumbling along here for almost a year and a half. I get a curie about every three weeks. I also get hit by whatever those curation things are that bump my post fairly often. I don’t mean to sound unappreciative and those factors have helped me hang on, but it doesn’t mean that more than a handful of people actually read my post, and to a writer that is the most important thing. My time spent networking has improved my feed, but not my blog much.

I got a little frustrated, so I created a site where I do my thing writing about life, but focusing on a local level. Facebook has several groups that are all about my hometown. One with 48,000 members. If I drop a link there to my site, I get a minimum of 100 views. If they bothered to actually click the link, I assume a large percentage at least skimmed the post. That feels like not bumbling along. Facebook has an effective niche. For someone more interested in the eyes than the coins, that is pretty appealing.

Those folks that disappeared hopefully didn’t quit what they do, hopefully they just found a greener pasture.

So go ahead then, tell me I am wrong. There are some people here that I really like, so I’m not going to disappear. But unless these tribes can compete with numbers I get elsewhere, I don’t have a strong motivation to write here. There must be a lot in the same boat here, but maybe we are the fluff that needs to leave. I suppose time will tell.

Didn’t mean to make this all about me, but here is the perspective of your standard visibility complainer/skeptic.
@kristyglas(71)· 2577d

But YOU Yes. YOU. You're still here! Right?!?!? Right?

Nope. :) I was actually just bored, so decided to quickly check the trending page and your post caught my eye. I check art content to get inspired and I haven't been getting that from blogs anymore. I experienced a family tragedy and I realized how precious time is and that I don't want to waste it blogging. I actually made a post for what happened but don't feel like sharing it and I doubt I will ever feel comfortable enough. My point is, I realized I have bigger goals and that I want to work on bigger projects and writing about every step is simply a distraction to make me feel like I'm accomplishing something. It has been 2 years since I joined here and a year since Whaleshares, there hasn't been any significant progress that affects me. Blogging is just a hobby and like with every hobby, you have limited time and sometimes you simply get bored and move on to a new hobby or even old one :) Don't get me wrong tho, I don't regret blogging at all, it has helped me in some ways like socializing, motivation to try new art mediums, and I tend to make my best art when I feel challenged like by contests. So I got my value's worth for time even if it isn't in terms of money. However, by now I feel like I've reached the end level for what I can do with blogging, just like in a game. I've considered making smaller and shorter posts just for the sake of staying active, like a lot of others have, but that's just not fun. In the long run I'd probably earn more if I invested that time elsewhere. As for friends, I'm pretty terrible with staying in touch but I believe that there are 2 or 3 people who I can message on discord and have a nice conversation with anytime, even a year from now. That's good enough for me, but I understand how some people are not so antisocial like me.

Quick summary: You have to be the top blogger to make a living and most crypto is essentially gambling. Steemit is just a hobby and it stopped being fun because a lot of us get stuck on a certain "level" regardless of the quality of posts. I do wish best of luck to those actually putting the effort into their posts, I hope Steemit improves their browsing quality so that we can more easily find the posts that we personally find interesting. I don't feel like anymore scrolling more than couple of minutes to find a good post.
@snook(75)· 2577d
:D
@trayan(71)· 2577d
Thank you for this secret! Some new art~style in here ;) I've noticed the yesterday's gap too... Holy shh* we're in the gap all the time :) So let's create instead of depressing ourselves!
@sirapa(57)· 2577d
Yes. I am here and I am having a good start. Yes, many good bloggers have left the field as I notice. One of them is @alexbeyman , I really enjoyed his story, games, novels, etc. But he is no longer here, I hope he comes back with a bang. And thanx to you I am learning self-enhancement, and way of not quitting.
@joseacabrerav(69)· 2577d
i had some days reading you and i would love if you saw my content, i will be all my life creating music and you can find a HUGE quantity of videos on my page like this (my favorite)

i post daily content and if you look at it you will find interesting daily stories, i try to had an interesting life wich consist on play in the street and get some free stuff like fastfood or stuff that people give me lol and also im seeking a way to earn a grammy, plus more things, so, your eye on this blog (mine's) will not dissapoint you, also i had 2000 ccc staked and i saw the true pithagorical potential of cryptos, we're on the right side of the story being pioners here.
@marcusantoniu26(68)· 2577d
This was not boring. I thought it was useful. Just be patient for people like me, who hardly have a minute, however, take a little of time to read you, because you are truly entertaining.
@akumagai(69)· 2577d
You are really entertaining to read. I found time disappear when I stumble on your posts. Thank you.

Keep up the awesomeness

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@tipu(68)· 2577d
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@davedickeyyall(79)· 2577d
Check out this morning's episode of #themorningbowl.. I've thought about using the #creativecoin tag but I'm not really sure it's the type of content that would be welcomed there. !tip
@bashadow(70)· 2577d

So, relax, be yourself, do your thing.

The number one reason for people to take a look at the Tribes available, there is one for almost everyone. maybe people will learn it is o-kay to be themselves.

I liked the red headed elvis guy picture the best. they were all good, but that one stuck with me throughout the read of the post.
@enjoywithtroy(71)· 2577d
I will look into creative coin. I wish Steemit could gain momentum again...but I don't see it happening neither for weku. But I am still here. Thanks
@healthandfitness(62)· 2577d
Oh man I love your sense of humor😂👍 I am absolutely sick of my feed showing actishit activity cards and short “this was my lunch today” posts! Seeing your post kind of brought my hope back that there are some real, creative people out there who will make my feed more interesting and you are definitely one of them👌😍 Don’t stop, keep on posting!
@beerlover(65)· 2577d
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@definethedollar(75)· 2577d
Wow! That was quite a lengthy rant. 😁 I’m still here (the one making all the chirpy chirpy cricket noises when you look for entertainment). I’d direct you over to my profile, but I basically write about walking my dog every day...so some pretty boring shite. I’ll check out creativecoin! !BEER !dramatoken
@meesterboom(81)· 2577d
Actually, I walked my dog in the park today. It was a nice day for it. We sat, on a cool little bench under a big spreading oak tree and my dog looked up at me and said, You don't have a dog.

Oh yeah, who the fuck are you then, idiot dog.

I said, thinking, I will show the little prick.

The dog paused then SCREAMED, its mouth opening impossibly wide and suddenly I was in ITS MOUTH and I was SCREAMING and then I realised that the dog was not really a dog?!?! It was my self-loathing and it was EATING ME ALIVE.

Aahhh.

I like creativecoin. Even the new tab is good and relatively spam free!
@slobberchops(82)· 2577d

Any creative writing is cool with me, even if it's a true story about your life, presented in a creative fashion.

Not everyone agrees with this, my latest post didn't include the #creativecoin tag, as I didn't feel it fitted the bill, but was in some ways similar to this one of yours, though without all your colour.

15,000 coins... oooh.., I feel small at just under 4000. I'm spreading mine out a little. Not sure if that's the right thing to do.
@abh12345.ccoin(39)· 2577d
Finally, some entertainment in my feed. Oh, you were waiting for me....

Many of the creative writers, outsider artists, and entertainer types;

I guess not :)

Big fan of the #creativecoin content, probably my favorite tribe at present and it's the reason I've also been stocking up - to curate and enjoy.

I do hope the tribes can lure the decent creators back in.
@derangedvisions(81)· 2577d
There is so much truth to this. Thank you for taking the time to write this up and trying to educate some of the younger members of the platform on what it takes to get noticed here. Too bad many of them are probably busy putting their 10+ spam posts out to actually engage with the community to even take notice of this post. Keep doing awesome things here.
@cwow2(73)· 2577d
I really like photos @vesytz and @outlinez take while using the actifit tag. Not sure if thats the content you're looking for, but they do take good photos :D

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