Self-preening prickass.
Any sane person could guess that a self-identifier with even a hint of the above fourth syllable wouldn’t exactly top the list of any sane person’s most desired term used by other people to describe themselves.
So why – by the sheer power of their own skewed, kitten-super-soaking bully mentality – do so many still shine such an unflattering light upon bloggers?
‘All bloggers are narcissists’
The cardinal truth of blogging –
Effort put into creating, maintaining and prostituting site = value placed on personal abilities
– is undeniable. All bloggers seek an audience. The medium they use to lure one into fawndom fundamentally rides on the belief that they deserve eyeballs and, for the more audacious, any acclaim they can muster.
However, the favoured argument of the typical derider of bloggers as compliment-craving heretics completely misses another basic component of their wrath-earning subjects’ world.
Bloggers grow out of homogeneity
The true egotistical asses of the blogosphere are also the most capable when it comes to self-destruction.
Consider the usual ego-boosting benefits reaped by the debutant blogger:
- Nil to par-nil hits
- Nil to par-nil comments
- Nil to nil subscribers
- Cricket-chirping atmosphere within your blog
- Cricket-chirping response to your comments on most other blogs …
- … Or the evenly-vacuous ‘Thanks for your comment, [copy and paste name]’
- Unfettered criticism, because hey, it’s the internet
- Fettered praise (in terms of honesty), because hey, it’s the blogosphere
- Newly-founded common sense …
- … And the dawning affirmation that your brainstream really does count for shit to everyone but you, unless you can give people a reason to care …
- … Which you can’t.
When those so despised overblown egos catch wind of the above barriers to their further growth through the roofs of their own glass houses, they quit. Despite many actually being capable of improvement, almost all quit, as plaudits can never come quickly enough.
Thus, the majority of bloggers – those who wither away after so many posts or weeks – also make up the majority of narcissistic bloggers.
The rest?
Bloggers are masochists
Peruse the above list again. Bloggers feed on that pain.
Some even enjoy it. In the absence of palpable praise, many bloggers able to persevere through the lonely times can only adapt and ameliorate.
And yet, there are those lonely times. The breeding grounds of self-doubt and self-derision.
What kind of self-preening prickass would be willing to go through all that for the mere approval of anonymous eyeballs they already know they’re better than?
