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Remember when a video going viral just meant a few thousand views?
Back in 2016, I made a dumb skit about trying to film with my cat. It got maybe 5k views. Felt huge. Last week, a short I made on a whim about my old camera gear hit 250k views overnight. My phone blew up. It wasn't even my best work. The whole week was a blur of comments and messages. Felt less like a win and more like a weird storm I was just watching. The old days, a good week meant a few nice comments from regulars. Now it's this huge, loud thing that's hard to even feel good about. Anyone else miss when a 'big' number felt small and personal?
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olivia_rivera881mo ago
Yeah, my friend had a clip of his dog barking at a Roomba blow up last month. He woke up to 400k views and his inbox was just full of people arguing about robot vacuums. He said it felt like someone else's life, like @blakem13 said, total bluescreen moment. He just wanted to show his cousin the funny dog video, not get a thousand strangers telling him he's training his pet wrong. The whole thing just made him not want to post anything for a while.
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lopez.karen1mo ago
Wait, 250k overnight? That's insane. My brain can't even process numbers that big anymore. It's like the whole vibe of the internet just got turned up to a deafening volume out of nowhere.
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