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Humor and Analogies Are the Future of Blogging, From 2021
I am prepared for it, are you?
Sure, blogging is dead.
Sounds so good right away, right?
Go, watch Netflix.
Dammit, wait. You always wanted to go for YouTube and now you can finally do it. Because that’s easier and there’s more money there, and now you don’t have to choose between options, right?
The reason you still aspired to be a writer even though there’s a huge opportunity open for you in YouTube is either because you are shy on camera or because you can write well.
There’s still hope. Read on.
Blogging Is Noisy
Blogging is noisy. That’s okay. Why? If there’s noise, that means it’s alive. There are writers. There are readers. There’s competition.
The noise is fine. But there’s a lot of echoes nowadays. There are copycats. There are imitators. There’s duplication.
Humor is unique. Analogies are unique. You can’t copy them and even if you try to, it’ll be obvious that you’re stealing it.
Humor and analogies are your girlfriend’s emotion of every second — they are always unique.
