well. wasn't expecting my post to breach containment
I consider myself a fairly unremarkable person. This isn't a self-deprecation thing, I just mean in the wider scale of the internet I'm not very noticable.
Things I post online don't tend to get much attention, and I'm fine with that. The one exception to this is tumblr, where my Call of Duty gifsets continue to get growth spurts of notes every so often. My most popular one has around 12k notes at the time of this post.
Anyway. When my previous post got on the trending page (me being mad about Americans undermining the heatwave issues in the UK as is their annual custom) it had me looking at my analytics page like this for a bit.
I told myself I wouldn't make posts rooted in anger anymore, but I needed to get that one out of my head, and it amuses me now that that's the one that became a trending thing. Because of course it would be. The internet loves when people get mad at something, because it often means people then get to be mad at that thing, which causes more engagement and so on.
I felt a bit of anxiety about it for, like, a day. It was the same jolt of nerves I got when I logged into my second tiktok account to see my post about what games I finished in June had been randomly boosted. I already do enough damage to myself doomscrolling, so I didn't want to waste more energy seeing and responding to potential 'so you hate waffles?' type posts.
But none of that happened. And I'm fine with that, too.