I never mentioned how inflated my stats for March were: I was averaging several tens of thousands of daily visits, and by the end of the month, my visit total was 767,165 (24.7K/day). That's impossibly high and not at all the norm, but it built upon February, when I had 146,738 unique visitors (about 5,060/day). This month, though, I've gone from five-digit site-visit numbers to four-digit numbers, and it wouldn't surprise me if I ended April right back at my usual norm, i.e., a lowly 600-ish visits per day (so far this month, I have 199,454 daily visits over 17 days, an average of about 11.7K visits a day).
The bots have gotten bored with me, I think, and since they were bots all along, I never really achieved blog-celebrity status. No one came knocking on my door to bask in my "fame," and no special status accrued to me. I continue to labor in obscurity, and my numbers will soon reflect that reality again. I think I have a small, semi-faithful core of viewers/readers who don't read the blog every day, nor do they comment every day, but they're at least a little loyal to what I'm doing, sticking with me through thick and thin... sort of. This really ought to feel like a relief; it certainly never felt the way fame is supposed to feel. That's because it's all artificial. Maybe this is the hollowness of AI.
No bots bother with me...I guess AI gets bored, too. I'm consistently around 200 unique views a day. I used to try to promote my blog by linking some posts on Facebook, but these days, I prefer the freedom that comes with anonymity. It's always surprising to encounter a stranger who knows me from LTG.
ReplyDeleteFor what it is worth, I enjoy your blog as much or more than those big-number guys out there. I like the mix of topics (all politics all the time gets boring) and you find and share videos I wouldn't otherwise know about it. So, think of your blogging as a public service. Thank you!