A Genuine Request

(Somewhat related YouTube video that I think is kinda funny)

Lately something shocking has been happening to my blog: it's actually getting consistent readers. I'm genuinely surprised. I've done zero marketing or SEO, the site looks like something that Clippy might cough up, and I post whatever randomly pops up into my head. That explains why it's not a lot of consistent readers, but some of my recent posts have views in the 25-40 range. I made sure in the settings that Blogger isn't counting my own views, so the only conclusions I can draw are these: either something about my writing is actually clicking with 5 to 37 people, or 5 to 37 bots have been instructed to scrape my website.

My response to the bots is obviously that they can feel free to scrape these nuts. But if you are an actual real person who is reading my blog regularly, I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to drop a comment or DM me on Instagram (linked in the sidebar). I'd love to see what kinds of people are reading my rantings.

And if you are real people, I'd like to sincerely thank you for reading. My goal with this website was to bring back the "for the heck of it" feeling of the old web, and the fact that you're visiting this blog shows that there's a real yearning for that. So seriously, thank you.