Tid Bit from My Diary

  Photo credit: Rebaz Geo@pexels I recently took a nostalgic dive into my blog archives, revisiting posts I'd written as far back as 2008. In those early, more prolific days, I was fortunate to cultivate a loyal readership. We formed a close-knit community, eagerly anticipating each other’s posts and sharing glimpses of our lives. Occasionally, others with a more transactional “you scratch my back, I scratch yours” mindset would join in, and we’d reciprocate. But neither of these interactions ever propelled our posts beyond a niche audience—virality, after all, is the domain of algorithms. As I pondered the evolution of content creation, an incident from April 2018 came to mind—a tragic shooting at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California. The perpetrator, an aggrieved content creator, believed that YouTube’s algorithms were unfairly suppressing her work. While her actions were indefensible, her frustrations echoed a sentiment many creators have felt: the struggle against an...