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[The Kempest]

Blogs aren't as interesting as vlogs. Text is only scary when the writer can paint a picture with their words, not hastily spit out some text in a blog format.

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I'm not saying some of the suggestions posited are not valid, because many of them are, but at this point I honestly think less time should be spent on these instructional threads about blogs and the supposed 'divide' and more time simply promoting one's blog or work here and elsewhere. That's what counts, not telling people how good blogs are.

[SublimeInsomnia]

It's hard to do that here when you're not allowed to actually promote your blog through any means other than posting a trailhead and crossing your fingers.

[Glass]

we should have a blog/vlog combo series... where a guy sits at a table and reads a blog aloud to the camera... or possibly we could make the series into a powerpoint and post it on youtube!
viblog!

I haven't read many blogs but they always seem a bit odd, like they are taking the time to update what they have seen via text.
Maybe if there was a blog that was uploads of scans of old pages of text from some Amish country that didn't have computers or cameras.

and on the note of crossovers. Possibly the blogger and the vlogger can be pen pals? That way the blogger wouldn't neccisarily have to be seen (and if they could be seen and have stage presence, then why are they making a blog and not a vlog c'mon guys.

[Guestguy2187]

Well, it's two different things, blogs are a lot slower paced, akin to slow burning fuse before it hits a powder keg.

Oh god, that was an awful metaphor.

But blogs in general have a lot of buildup, at least, when done properly. We see glimpses of the character going about and trying to maintain a normal life as it slowly dips into outright horror.

But with vlogs, everything is the meat of it, there's always some significant plot event in every video, likely because it takes so long to set up and edit that ten minutes of everyone talking (Or of their feet running through the woods) just wouldn't satiate the viewers.

Some people are interested in both, and some are interested in one or the other, there's no real need to "bridge the gap" between two different audiences.

[Seraphim]

Or people can man up and realize that, while forced meme is forced, it is highly unlikely to deter people already reading/writing blogs from continuing?

I mean, the "original" Slender blog or vlog was Just Another Fool, right?

It all depends on presentation.

[AppleTreeProjectionist]

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Basically.

I've yet to hear very much in terms of what a lot of the blog community is going to do when they want more eyes on their work. These kind of things only ever seem to come here when people feel aggrieved and expect some sort of restitution from 'the other side,' as though UF itself is responsible for that in any way or represents anything - and these grievances always seem to involve other places and other forums I don't care about, and other Facebook groups I don't care about, or people's personal tumblrs I don't care about. If the message that comes across to the public is always 'blogs are great and these people are mean to tease us,' that's not a very compelling sales pitch for any particular certain blog. It just sounds whiny.

I'm not saying trolling is not immature. But after a certain point the joke has a resonance. I think people need to stop taking everything to such unabashed heart, stop being immersed in a small range of social networking systems and social sub-groups, and just focus on getting their work out there in new ways. Making it about some grudgefuck with this series or that other person or what person X or Y has done to you holds no interest for me and probably ends up just garnering more trolling. If I don't know anyone, what reason do I, personally, have to care about what anyone is supposedly doing to you? How does that compel me to become interested in reading your work, as opposed to your anger? What particularly didn't help last summer was when someone came here and politely claimed Unfiction was out to get blogs and keep them off the front page. As though this was common knowledge that everyone knew and unimpeachable fact. Give me a fucking break. 99% of this site's users, myself included, have no idea what the poster's fucking blog is. They couldn't care enough to shove it off the front page, they're not out to get you. If it's not there, it's because you're not getting it out there. You've stayed where you were comfortable, among people you were already comfortable with. And that may be a nice circle, but it's not going to get you any more visibility.

People need to exhale, stop focusing on what they're so committed to being angry about, and focus on the work, because right now the only thing that consistently seems to come over from the other side of the line is angry bloggers. The blogs that do get attention here, I don't remember much creator rage from them. They just function.

I'm not saying it's fair that blogs aren't as visible as vlogs, but sometimes that's just life. Ask why the ones that broke out did. It's not a conspiracy. I'd much rather remember someone for their work than for their public fits - and that goes for either side.

[BanishedZaber]

[punxtr]

Jason, you speak so much sense.

Let me just let a few people in on something extra. unFiction is a site dedicated to Alternate Reality Games, it is not dedicated to blogs or even vlogs. Vlogs get by because we are a generation overloaded with Youtube and Netflix, and it's easier to get into. Blogs are harder to get into if they're not interactive/games.

Just some advice.

[ChildOfAtom]

I've cleaned the thread. Please be civil and remember that (even though it seems like it sometimes) not everyone here is active enough to know who the creators are, so the jokes and memes that spring out of that community don't necessarily land the way you intend them to.