I’m gonna be honest. I started this blog to relive my glory days as a teen growing up in the height of the blogger and tumblr/rookie mag hipster era. But to get views I have been resorting to language that does not sound like me and stupid SEO keywords. I look back on the posts I’ve published so far and I can’t help but cringe at how SEO ruined writing. Do you really have to sound like a squeak toy that has become sentient in order to get clicks? I don’t even think SEO-addicted content gets meaningful engagement when you’re not trying to sell anything other than relatability and your openness to conversation (in the comments at the bottom by the way).
I was also hiding behind this new gen version of blogging because I haven’t written in a while and have lost the spark and vocabulary. I once was a grammar pro and now I forget what punctuation to use in a sentence. Serves me right working a brain-atrophying desk job.
Blogging to me is a place where I still feel safe being honest and critical. Can’t do that on Tiktok or else all the toxic positive/contrarian zombies will feed on your self worth in the comments for nutrition. You also can’t do it on Twitter because that’s not even a real place for healthy people anymore. But here. There’s no one here! I can type away and feel safe knowing I won’t get harassed for having an opinion. An opinion that at time festers into anger due to the current state of my life thanks to how strange everything and everyone has gotten post-pandemic and hyper-globalization’s increased velocity thanks to social media. I honestly have not acclimated to the shift. I don’t know if I ever will. It has created new anxieties in me and I need an outlet.
So after a second hiatus, I’m back writing online again (not me reheating my own nachos [ew I can’t believe I said that]). Ready to rant (and hopefully rave) about whatever is bugging me again on this personal blog in 2026 in a post-pandemic internet. I might keep up the SEO charade, or I may just keep writing in my natural flow as I am right now. It all depends on how addicted I get to seeing those views.
Are you still blogging in 2026, or did social media kill it for you? Let me know…
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