This is an open letter to the Content Creators who garner hundreds of likes and reblogs but repeatedly post about not getting any likes or reblogs on their works from a Content Creator who receives next to no likes or reblogs on her own work.
Look, I get it.
I do.
You put hours into ripping videos and making gifs.
Days into writing that one-shot, two-shot or chapter for a multi-chapter story.
Weeks into creating that digital painting, physical drawing or photoset.
You’re proud of your work. Excited to share it.
And it doesn’t get all that much attention.
It’s demoralizing and makes you think you suck. You start struggling to create content. Ask yourself why you should bother since nobody is going to comment or reblog your work so others can see it.
I get it, I do.
We all want people to love our work as much as we love it.
Tumblr has an algorithm that is dependent on reblogs. You don’t trend unless you are being reblogged.
So, yeah, I get it.
You want reblogs to trend.
You want likes to show your work is loved.
You want comments flooding your inbox telling you how awesome your work is.
The thing is, many of you are getting those reblogs, likes, and anon messages gushing over your work.
You just want more.
Hey, that’s cool. It’s totally human to want that validation.
Some of us, though, don’t get any sort of validation.
And we continue creating.
We continue sharing our work despite knowing we likely will get less than five likes, no reblogs and zero anon messages gushing over our work.
This is a glass half full or empty situation. You can either look at your glass as half empty because you aren’t getting the interaction you crave or look at it as half full because you are getting more than a lot of other Content Creators.
Choice is yours in how you want to look at things.
Personally, I look at every one like as my glass being half full.
It means one person saw what I created and appreciated it.
So I continue to create and share.
For me and that one person.