Hello Internet: Why Are You Here?

Before I begin, I have a question for you. Why are you reading a blog in this day and age? Text-based media material has one foot in the grave, if not both. It’s been eaten up by the likes of YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter. Writers are competing for your precious attention with big brand platforms and short-form, bite-sized content — text has been decimated and reduced to a vassal state. One that is built only in the service of getting SEO hits, which directs you to more profitable content like videos or podcasts or rarely but not insignificantly, digital magazines.

Don’t get me wrong, I love that you are here. Come hither and make yourself comfortable in my humble digital space, by all means. But my hopes of you staying are tiny. Like passing a gigantic carrier ship through an impossibly narrow fjord, retaining attention from digital natives is at once a challenging experience, but one which is bound to run into big rocks.

If I have successfully engaged you so far, this post is now obsolete.