One year ago today, briglarson.com was officially launched and the first post was made. Since then, the world has owed a great debt to my random musings manifested through the most outdated blogging platform in the business. Truly, I have broken new ground in political and social commentary, and vastly influenced modern society to an extent unforeseen and unprecedented. All it took was a little bit of Bush-era web design. How inspiring.
Seriously though, it's nice to know that this project has made it a whole year and is still receiving consistent updates. Not many of my other projects can boast that. Take my long-dormant, pretty darn terrible webcomic I keep meaning to bring back in some capacity but haven't. The fact that I can barely read the existing strips without cringing is probably a pretty large contributor to that (it also says a lot that this is the first time I've taken credit for The Bench under my own name online).
This blog started as simple passion project to provide an alternative to the growing, all-encompassing horror of social media, from the endless dopamine hits of Instagram to the growing Nazi sympathizing of President Swasticar and his rule over Twitter (you will pry that name out of my cold, dead hands). I remain entirely committed to this blog remaining just that. I don't make a cent off of briglarson.com and I don't intend to. I have disabled all ads, and if I could disable trackers I would do that too (though you have the option to do that yourself, cough cough).
My readership has grown somewhat as well, though I still can't be sure if half of those views are just me or not. But I've had a couple of minor breakout posts. While most of my posts usually max out at two to three views, my 2024 Election Night coverage consistently pulled in upwards of 11 views. By the average blogger's standard those are post-human extinction numbers, but as someone who's content to exist in the ever-shrinking niche of personal blogging, that's the kind of reach I could only dream of.
Later this year, I'm gonna have to duck out for a couple of years for personal reasons (religious mission for those wondering, you get one guess which religion it is), but I'll probably pre-write a couple posts and schedule them to drop over the course of my mission. I want this to keep going and not grow entirely dormant. Gotta put the domain name to good use. I assure you that briglarson.com will not die until the last Google server goes down.
Thanks to all my reader(s) for coming along on this magical blogging journey. I hope you've enjoyed it, I hope you continue to enjoy it, and I hope you enjoy it well into the future!
Be kind, stay hydrated, and have a fantastic day.
:)
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