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C.S.Lewis

by 한상훈 Mar 17. 2024

Confidence

2024. 3. 17.


Most brunch authors never read someone's story. Every day, click the like button without reading. For what? To get more subscribers. 


Even though the title was "Please do not click like button!" they forcedly clicked. Why do they do that? To get a reputation on the brunch story? There's no meaning to this platform. Most stories are fucked, and developers never fix basic things. Only merit articles are listed on the Daum and Kakao platforms. What an idiot!


Actually, I don't care about this platform or its users, especially authors. I wonder how they can like my story without following me. And also, this platform smells like a Kakao story. If some author gave their like to another author, then they would like back for rewards. Like interactions. Great. So there were many stupid stories getting more likes than stories that had more than 10K views. 


There's no meaning to such likes and views. They follow each other, like each other, and get a dozen replies and earn 100 ~ 200 likes with a few thousand views or even smaller. 


It looks like girls Instagram. 4~5 years ago, I met a female artist who has more than 10K followers on Instagram. She told me, "Everyday, every hour, I've been liked whole feed on Instagram, and each click spends less than one second." Click after click without reading. It's some kind of labor to earn followers. It's really sad. Because someone who has a pretty face or the power to show their content doesn't have to do that kind of labor. 


I understand their desperation but when I saw their story, most of them made shit content for me to read. There's no insight, no entertainment, and no impression. Just shit. Too normal. It is a universal truth that everything collected in strange forms is lost if there is no substance. Without core value, they just make sh*t and deceive others. 'Please like my story; I liked your story first.' But I never do that. Even every day, someone liked my story at brunch, but I never liked theirs. 


I knew most of Korean never and couldn't read this. If possible, most of them would use translator. But sadly, in Brunch app, there's no translation feature. So if you want to like this story, please don't press like button. Just leave me message. If not, I would think you are like farmer for getting follower. 


Sometimes I want to see statistics to see who's the best, like clicker at brunch. I have confidence that there were thousands of button clicks, but only a few authors. Maybe they can use a bot for that. But I also knew. The Brunch system doesn't have any protection for using bots. So it's always fun to use this platform. There's no development, and so many people, like farmers, work every day, even weekdays! Is there no tiredness for them?


Whatever. It's funny. Most of authors already knew and have been wroted many stories but still too many farmers. What a busy life! What a sad life!

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