{"id":47529,"date":"2022-07-26T13:44:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47529"},"modified":"2022-07-26T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:44:33","slug":"a-lack-of-likes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/07\/26\/a-lack-of-likes\/","title":{"rendered":"A lack of likes."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Twitter, I have over 31,000 followers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m only telling you because it’s mind-blowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s mind-blowing because most of those people, almost ALL of them, actually, don’t seem to give a shit about my posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In most cases I simply share my blogs, and on average I get around 2 likes per Tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yup, 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And only 1 out of 5 Tweets (or blogs) sparks a comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So you could easily say that there’s not much engagement, huhu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That I’m doing something terribly wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or: that I’m wasting my talent and time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why don’t I try and tweak the content, so more of those 31K lovely people will start dropping likes and comments on me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why don’t I try and leverage more of that unique position that took me years to attain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have no fucking idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me try some explanations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems that I don’t really care about producing stuff that most people will like, if I don’t like it myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems that I simply love writing stuff that’s interesting and invigorating to me, that inspires me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems that most people are just stupid, and I’m lost in a niche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a commercial standpoint, this is absolutely rubbish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And sometimes that really bugs me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes I hate that I can’t be more mainstream, more easily digestible, and more fast food-like when it comes to writing, because it would probably bring me a lot more eyeballs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I really can’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I could, in theory, with all my experience and knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I really, really can’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by @martenbjork, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Twitter, I have over 31,000 followers. I’m only telling you because it’s mind-blowing. It’s mind-blowing because most of those people, almost ALL of them, actually, don’t seem to give a shit about my posts. In most cases I simply share my blogs, and on average I get around 2 likes per Tweet. Yup, 2. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97,117,100,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wakkerworden","category-english","category-inzichten","category-persoonlijk","category-zingeving","category-relaties","category-spiritualiteit","category-eigenwijs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47531,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47529\/revisions\/47531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}