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kob131 · 3 years ago

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I posted 1,584 times in 2021

529 posts created (33%)

1055 posts reblogged (67%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 2.0 posts.

I added 60 tags in 2021

#kob plays ddlc plus - 15 posts

#fate grand order - 9 posts

#fate series - 9 posts

#mordred - 7 posts

#skyrim - 6 posts

#dargath shadow-blade - 5 posts

#long post - 4 posts

#saber of red - 2 posts

#kob plays ddlc - 2 posts

#and this is after berserk 2016 showed how bad it is to get amatuers to do this - 1 posts

Longest Tag: 102 characters

#because a 'critic' decided to lobotomize themselves instead of not bitching about literally everything

My Top Posts in 2021

Care to explain to /swapauanon that Jaune did NOT murder Penny, which he seems so adamantly convinced happened?

I. Am. Not. Your. Attack. Dog.

I will do this but know that I will be keeping an eye on that blog in case you try using my words to attack them.

The thing about murder is that the technical definition (the act of killing another person with a malicious plan or forethought in mind and without a reason) and the connotation (killing another person with malicious intent and no provocation) is that it requires MALICE. Jaune did not maliciously kill Penny. He also doesn’t qualify for man slaughter since Jaune was ASKED by Penny to kill her so she can die on her own terms.

Jaune’s actions do not fit these things. Stop trying to force it.

48 notes • Posted 2021-04-20 19:10:05 GMT

Roast Tumblr in general.

Hm, easy one-

Tumblr, one of the testaments to mankind's ability to do so much and yet accomplish so little. How many changes has this site gone through that has done jackall? The color changes, the user interface changes, that one beta that seems to have died out, the fucking porn ban. How much shit has the staff pushed that got immediately undone by Xkit or just came and went?

Let's talk about that 'porn ban' though, even though calling it that would be a joke. What really happened was that some shit got deemed family unfriendly (including Tumblr's own announcement of said ban) before quietly fading away as evident by the sizeable amount of porn and fuckbots that still exist on this thing. The only thing that was actually changed was a bunch of people panicked about a team that couldn't ban the word fuck from Sesame Street to protect their nutsacks and proceeded to jump ship onto other platforms. Which ironically made it so the one accomplishment that Tumblr had to it's name, the 'biggest cesspool on the internet outside of Kiwifarms and /pol/', was claimed by literally every other mainstream motherfucker on the planet.

You'd think that would mean Tumblr would become the most tolerable platform we got...if not for the updates making everything more and more unappealing while managing to do nothing noteworthy. Sure the word limits that gut fanfics and the shitty loading of images can be funny for a while but you adapt so quickly to these they just become background noise to the userbase while new users get off put and quickly swallow shit somewhere else, especially when you realize it still has the same fucking death threats and blocking culture literally everyone else has too so why bother?

To say Tumblr is a hellsite would be giving it too much credit because Hell can accomplish something. This place is an empty circus tent where you can down some shrooms and pretend there's some clowns until you adapt and realize you're only here because you can't be bothered to leave.

53 notes • Posted 2021-06-21 05:51:53 GMT

So, inspired by Shuttershocky’s own character opinions, I think I’ll start doing my own.

And no, I’m not doing Mordred first. She comes later.

Nah, considering a certain Ruler’s recent reveal, I think I’ll talk about a certain Shirou-face.

So quick overview of Angra Mainju-

He��s not actually the Zoroastrian god of Evil. No, he’s actually more like Sasaki Kojiro- The guy who the myth of Angra Mainju is BASED off of. He was just some ordinary villager who drew the shortest of straws and was used as a scapegoat for the sins of his villagers, tortured for decades until he died of old age. Because of this, he has a pretty nasty hatred of humanity. Which you would think would disqualify him from being a Heroic Spirit (I mean, logically who would consider him a hero?) but it’s said that his torture put the villagers at ease, meaning he did technically do a heroic deed and thus was preserved by the Throne of Heroes.

In the Third Holy Grail War, the Einsberns tried to summon the evil god but, for a multitude of reasons that include it not existing in the first place, they got him instead. Problem? The guy isn’t a normal hero, he’s a village boy who got tortured. He doesn’t have any special powers or even a proper Noble Phantasm. So of course, he gets his ass kicked. But thing is, he was so weak the Grail thought he was a human and thus tried to grant his wish.

Which was to actually BECOME All The World’s Evil.

And so the Grail tried to do it...but things got fucky. So the next two wars are basically just attempts at bring his wish to life. He...kind of exists here? Issue is that in Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night, Angra Mainju is more a force of nature or a being of pure evil rather than the tortured village boy he actually is. So for simplicity’s sake AND due to how radically different ‘All The World’s Evil’ is- I’ll just skip over his supposed presence in those two and move on.

Despite his wished for form’s destruction in Fate/Stay Night, Angra Mainju survived. In fact, his time as “All The World’s Evil” turned him into a proper Heroic Spirit, giving him an actual Noble Phantasm and actual status as a Heroic Spirit. Here, he gains a sort of obsession with granting wishes. So he goes around looking for someone’s wish to grant. During this time, he finds Bazett Frega McRemitz (AKA The ACTUAL Master of Cu Chulanin before Kirei decided to do what he does best: Fuck people over) dying, wishing not to die. And thus, Angra Mainju does his best to keep her alive. For 6 months, this meant keeping her alive but in a vegetative state.

After being discovered by Caren Hortensia (Kirei’s daughter. ... This is kind of important later), this meant keeping her alive AND sustaining her consciousness. To do this, he creates Fate/Hollow Ataraxia’s four day loop (the same length of time he survived his war.) Through this, he tricks Bazett into thinking that she’s participating in the Fifth Holy Grail War. Issue being, Angra knows little more than jackshit about said war so what ends up happening is that he uses the Third Grail War structure with Fifth Grail War players as stand-ins. He is also only active with Bazett at night, the catch being that the person that the player thinks they’re controlling (Shirou) is actually an unaware Angra, living out his own wish of a normal life.

At first, Angra is just being selfish and indulging himself during this time. However, over time, his interactions with the people in Shirou’s life, Shirou’s own influence over him (as having lost his identity, he effectively needs to adopt another’s to exist) and, most importantly, his new found relationship with Bazett and Caren causes him to try and end the four day loop. This going against his Master’s wishes, as she fears that she will die due to finding out about the loop and losing Avenger, who is assumed to become nothing once again. However, he manages to convince her by revealing he really did save her life and that she had to move on. So at the end, he and Bazett race to opposite ends of the Grail, Bazett back to life and Angra Mainju embracing oblivion once again.

So...yeah. Pretty heavy stuff even with me skipping some stuff.

We only really learn about Angra Mainju in Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, since that’s where we truly meet him as a person. And at the beginning...he’s not a good person. Avengers in general are known for being highly destructive, malicious and dangerous Servants because their Class effectively puts them on edge at all times, constant consumed by hate. As the first Avenger, Angra both embodies this and subverts it at the same time.

Yes he is consumed by hate. ... But said hate is not an emotional state like other Avengers. His hate is his nature by the point we meet him. Meaning he isn’t on edge like his fellows, he isn’t clouded by extreme emotion. For all his cynicism and malice, he’s by far the calmest and most rational Avenger we have seen so far. Which makes some of his actions (like killing a family to draw out his enemies) come across as even worse than normal since he isn’t openly insane. Even beyond this, Angra is a sarcastic asshole who loves fucking with people and being insulting.

However, as things go on, as he lives the life of Shirou Emiya and the Servant of Bazett, he gets better. Sure, he’s still rude as all hell. But the guy does show he cares about Bazett and thinks about her well being. He falls in love with Caren, who does love him back (if you’re wondering how: I believe it’s implied Caren suffers from the same condition Kirei did in regards to empathy. So makes sense she’d love an embodiment of hate and vengence) and he did enjoy living as Shirou, revealing that beneath the hate that became his nature- He’s just a normal guy who got SEVERELY fucked over. Hell, when Medusa was on the verge of morphing into Gorgon, Angra walks by and talks to her. He gives her a speech on what it means to be a monster and ends up helping her prevent her transformation, even though having her become a monster would help him make people suffer (and maybe even someone who understands him, as Gorgon is an Avenger herself.)

Just as his lack of emotional distress makes his evil actions worse, it also means he’s capable of change and becoming good. He learns love and care despite having lived a life no one could even comprehend, forced into a Class that is more like a curse than an honor. Despite his hatred of humanity, he still believes in it somewhat. He adopts some of Shirou’s heroic traits through living his life. And at the very end, this jackass who started things off by killing random innocents...ends up making the ultimate sacrifice, one where he gains nothing but loses everything, where he really doesn’t want to do it...all because he came to care for Bazett.

I’ll admit, I sobbed at the end.

Now, Angra isn’t really used in any serious manner after this. He appears in the Accel/Zero and Christmas in the Underworld events...mostly as jokes. However, I would like to note his Bond 10 Craft Essence. These CEs are effectively summations of the characters themselves. For example, Mordred’s Bond 10 effectively sums up her identity issues. And Angra Mainju’s?

It’s all about how he was a necessary evil, his life taken from him, hatred burned into him...

...and how Caren, despite seeing it all, still loved him.

And the CEs effect? A Guts buff and the ability to hurt Beast class enemies in a way no other Servant can replicate.

In essence, that love gives him the ability to keep living (with his strongest skill KILLING him btw) and to more effectively protect the world. And considering how the Beasts are related to humanity, it might just be because that love made him human again.

In short, Angra Mainju is a person forced into a role, his nature overwritten by his torture, cursed by fate because of others, indulging in his role because it’s all he knows-

And yet, even he finds a way to become a better person. All culminating in a sacrifice that can only be described as ‘Heroic’.

He truly is a Heroic Spirit.

54 notes • Posted 2021-02-07 19:56:06 GMT

“DUR, GUN OWNERS CANT HANDLE GUN LAWS BUT KIDS HANDLE SHOOTY DRILLS!”

... You do know most shootings are done with ILLEGAL guns right? As in, laws don’t affect their purchases because they don’t FOLLOW the law? So the only people restricted are the rare dude buying a gun legally for illegal things...and the common man buying a gun for ANY NUMBER of reasons?

66 notes • Posted 2021-04-04 20:40:54 GMT

If you ever wanna know how 'critical' the RWBYcritics subreddit is-

One person posted a transcript for the commentary for RWBY Volume 8, where they called Jaune's scream at killing Penny 'screaming in self insert man pain'.

And the comments was SOLELY people circlejerking.

... What do YOU think?

76 notes • Posted 2021-11-29 21:38:45 GMT

Get your Tumblr 2021 Year in Review ��

Disappointing that no more analysis ended up here. But I love that my Tumblr roast made it.

#my 2021 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

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aveirobsessed · 4 years ago

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i'll answer all of them bc im bored and my followers surely won't ask any lmao

1. open heart or the elementalists

2. Rafael Aveiro or Maxwell Beaumont

3. same ^

4. uhh i played most of the books a long time ago but like i remember meeting Rafael and that shit was magical like i knew i wanted him to be an li and was so damn excited

5. when everyone survived in it lives in the woods when i replayed it

6. honestly, i hated most of the endings and like deleted them from my memory so i wouldn't have trauma, i really don't remember

7. well it used to be olivia but we're besties now so maybe kane from te2 or ellen from wt

8. i kinda like both bad boys/girls (noah, mona and colt) and sweethearts (beckett, ernest, rafael, maxwell, quinn, simon from std, thomas from moty, adrian)

9. it lives in the woods ending for sure

10. well i used to play tc&tf when there were only 3 books (tc&tf, most wanted and the freshman??) but i stopped and came back like 2 years later maybe bc i missed it, i played pixelberry's other games like hollywood u and hss and cheated so much they gave me some terrible bans/punishment so i stopped playing those

11. i don't follow blogs i just check the tags

12. sunkissed

13. bloodbound series

14. that duke bitch from d&d but i also hate poppy rn

15. i love my trr/trh mc mostly bc i named her saturn as a joke, wishful thinking mc was cute, i loved my powerful women in moty and oh with the same damn face also my precious black boy mc in it lives in the woods and my gay for beckett boy in te, but the legendary kenna rys takes the crown ;)

16. most of them were shitty honestly :( but i liked zeph (te) and briar (d&d) and lily (bb)

17. something that won't fucking stress me out ffs pls give us something fun that requires no diamonds as a gift bc we be poor i have enough things to stress me out i want some serotonin (i only get serotonin from noah scenes nowadays)

18. which one bc a lot of them need some changing, first of all pls let my boy rafael live and stay my fucking boyfriend i don't care if his gf is jesus womanified pls remove that bitch, second, give us more great female lis and treat them like male lis, third, give us the option to have a male mc, that's why i loved te soooo much, i have a lot more complaints but that's it for now

19. i always make up the names, my mcs were: Victor, Rina, Saturn, Nia, Danielle, Sienna, Selene, Reign, Leah, Diana, Lia...just to name some (when i get the chance to give them a last name i go wild, my mc from d&d was Danielle Leaf lmao and in one Episode story i named my mc River Lake)

20. i'm not reading a lot of them actually, so maybe Queen B even though it has A LOT of bad/questionable moments (i just realized that oh2 will soon be back from hiatus but im still not changing my answer to that bc of what they did to my raf)

21. when there were only 3 books idk when was that like 2016 maybe

22. probably none bc i loved at least one li in every book or i felt bad at some point lmao i think i even spent diamonds on sunkissed

23. wishful thinking

24. well i can't wait for rod2 but if the question's about the books that won't have sequels probably nightbound even though i didn't really like my li vera that much or wishful thinking

25. 14 on one acc, 25 on the other (i played some books on both of them so probably like 30-35 in total)

26. 286 on one acc, 448 on the other one

27. it lives in the woods, tc&tf, open heart, i started trr on another acc with a different li but got bored, ride or die, the elementalists (both) i think thats it?

28. i honestly don't think i ever did bc i'd be confused whenever i checked the tumblr tags

29. nope we broke

30. li scenes like 90% of the time, i bought just a few outfits, added veronica to my posse bc she's iconic and maybe some other stuff but ye mostly li stuff

31. not really but a lot of noah scenes remind me of one boy i know and thinking about him makes me want to cry so there's that, i also had a mental breakdown when i found out what they did to raf in oh2

32. lmao i liked atlas but that'd be twincest which is a nono so maybe ximena from rod, harper emery is v hot lmao i also stan aurora idk if she's an li i don't remember anymore but if she is and raf is not anymore then i'll date her, also maybe the rival girl from platinum idk her name i think maybe jaylen diaz or some shit

33. fire on one acc(first time playing), air on another i think

34. nowadays yes bc of my two first loves and diamonds but i probably won't once the school problems start

35. 21 on one acc, 20 on another (if you're wondering i have the dual app thingie)

36. probably fucking rafael or maxwell or beckett idk anymore haha that was long time ago

37. maybe like comedy i need something to make me happy, also i want a book where we're in a band that'd be fun

38. usually male bc they get more scenes and i know they probably won't be underrated (im bi with a slight preference for girls)

39. beckett and ian/ina from queen b (pb made fans hate them so much bc they're pushing them and giving them so many diamond scenes but they're so damn adorable) also simon from save the date he is one of the cutest ppl pb has made and both girls from endless summer

40. i will get hate if ppl see this but ethan ramsey (i love that man and he was my li when i replayed oh but damn y'all would make a religion based on him) but that was a tough choice (ayy pun intended) bc most lis that are loved by the fans do deserve that love :)))

Some playchoices asks!

Feel free to reblog if your followers can send you numbers!

1. Your favorite book?

2. Your favorite character?

3. Your favorite LI?

4. Your favorite moment with an LI?

5. Your favorite moment in any book?

6. Your favorite ending to a book?

7. Your favorite villain?

8. Your favorite type of LI?

9. Most memorable moment in a book?

10. What got you into choices?

11. Favorite choices blogs?

12. Least favorite book?

13. Least favorite ending of any book?

14. Least favorite villain?

15. Favorite MC?

16. Favorite best friend character?

17. What type of book would you like to see in the future?

18. If you could change something about a book, what would it be?

19. What is your MC’s name generally? Something made up, your own name, or the default name?

20. Favorite book that is being published right now?

21. Since when have you started playing choices?

22. Which books have you diamond mined?

23. What is a book that is not popular, but you still really like?

24. Which book would you want an extra book for most?

25. How many books have you finished?

26. How many chapters have you played?

27. Which book(s) have you replayed?

28. Do you typically change other characters’ names if you are given the option?

29. Do you have VIP?

30. Which scenes do you generally spend diamonds on? LI scenes, friend scenes, collecting stuff, clothing, etc.

31. Was there a scene that has made you cry?

32. Which non-LI would you most like to have as an LI?

33. If you played The Elementalists: which secondary attunement did you get?

34. Do you play daily?

35. How many diamonds do you have right now?

36. What is your favorite 30 diamond scene?

37. Which book genre would you like to see more of?

38. Do you tend to go for male or female LI’s?

39. Which character should get more love from the fandom?

40. Which character do you think is overrated?

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med-blahg · 7 years ago

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2017: Year in Review pt. 1/??

After compiling most of the notable pictures of the year and hoping to make a nice twitter thread as is the bandwagon, I’ve decided to do this year-end reflection survey instead, since a) I was a bit too lazy to organize my thoughts, and b) surveys!!! This was the shit back in the multiply days.

What one event, big or small, are you going to tell your grandchildren about?

I’m going to cheat on this a bit because two events came to mind.

TRP - Two-peat Championship! Once again, batch 2020 proved itself legendary. TRP chorale season was extra memorable this year because I ran for the position of Music Head. Fed, my predecessor, warned me that scheduling rehearsals was especially a logistical nightmare, with last year’s different schedules for Blocks A and B. What more for LU5′s eight blocks, right?

I think there were three main challenges we had to go through for this to happen. The first was the very beginning -- the creation of the song itself. There was an added pressure since our piece last year was deemed the best, and even the same composer and arranger had a difficult time creating one for our last chance to grace the stage. We had two nights of brainstorming at Fed’s place (with free Angel’s pizza... and an out-of-post PER ICC huhu).

As far as I remember, he was already on his fifth or so attempt to make a song as the first ones garnered negative reviews. It was hard to get inspiration unlike last year where he was just especially moved after a lecture in Ther. In his words, pigang piga na siya. We were also having creative differences which really hindered us from making any real progress. Fortunately, on the second night, we finally overcame this with a switch to major chords and a great concept from James, giving birth to our wonderful chorus with the lines,

Bawat segundong nilaan, bawat hirap nalampasan,

Katumbas ng buhay na maliligtas.

...which tied very well with the theme, Orasa: Ang Dakilang Maestro.

The second challenge was actually a personal one. I got a taste of this logistical nightmare that Fed spoke of. It was particularly nerve-wracking especially for an irresponsible person like me, who has always clung to the clutch life. Getting venues for rehearsals was the main problem for this. Our choices were limited (MSU, Paz Men, Student Lounge, Tipunan) and in high demand, because many groups had to rehearse for TRP. It was my first time to attempt reserving a Paz Men room, which was surprisingly a lot of work -- needing to go to the Dean’s Office to check the availability of the rooms, go all the way up to the eighth floor of PGH to get it approved, go to the Cashier’s Office in OUR, and then go back to the Dean’s Office for them to confirm the payment, and then finally to Paz Men to submit the permit. But wait, there’s more! It actually cost a lot of money, which was the worst part, for me. #WeNeedSpace !!! I used my own money, which I was going to reimburse, but then we won, so... yeah, my treat then. (No one knew anyway heheh.) After all that, Paz Men obviously got scrapped from possible venues. I then had to coordinate with the MSC and MedChoir to get the free ones, being careful not to affect the batch dance schedule as much as possible.

You can then imagine getting all that work done, albeit very crammed which was entirely my fault, and then getting a poor turnout for rehearsals with just mere weeks before the competition (oh and that stupid ASEAN week which took more precious time away), to be quite disappointing, to say the least. The schedules of the different blocks and other TRP practices just couldn’t fit. This leads us to the third problem, which was to get the class motivated. This was my first reason for running to head the whole thing anyway -- I really just wanted to get the class together and to sing their hearts out once again! Thankfully, with a few motivational messages from me and our conductor, Joker, that I’m sure every one in the batch admired and respected, the attendance started going up, with one week to go.

My babies. (Sorry for the distorted faces.)

One of the final practices in particular really just transformed the song. I asked the class to do a simple exercise of singing to each other. They had to stand in a circle so they could look at each other’s faces. It was funny and awkward at first, but it was the first time I heard the piece sung with heart, and I knew they felt it too!

There were some issues with the final scoring during the competition itself, and I honestly wasn’t quite sure how to take it. But seeing how my batchmates rejoiced and hearing the audience do the winner clap (THIS IS LEGIT THOUGH HEHE) made me feel like we really deserved the win. Very grateful for the talented and hardworking music team and my bibo batchmates!

Abendlied: An Evening of Songs for the Benefit of Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus -- our year-end concert for A.Y. 2016-2018. It was my first time to sing for a benefit concert. We took this opportunity not only to share our love for choral music, but also to spread awareness of SLE, a rather common condition found in PGH. I was very proud of how big this event has gotten -- thanks to sponsored boosts and our first time to get media partners (and, admittedly, our high ticket prices), we were able to procure a few hundred thousands, a part of which was donated to the PGH Lupus Club.

UP MedChoir always has a lot of major and minor events like these, but I’d choose this to share to my grandkids because in this concert, I really felt that I was blessed with talent that could help others. (Oh, which just reminded me of something, haha. Maybe it’ll get featured later, or in some other post.)

If you had to describe your 2017 in 3 words, what would they be?

Mistakes, lessons, cycle. I repeatedly did a shit ton of mistakes this year, with repercussions not only for me, but regrettably to the people around me. This came with the responsibilities I chose to accept this year. But heck, I’m proud of myself for accepting and embracing these new roles. I was brave enough to challenge myself. #characterdevelopment

What new things did you discover about yourself?

Oh, man. Haha. One of the things I discovered was that I am quite quick to forgive and forget. And then one day, some stimulus will come that will take me all the way back to when it hurt. A lot. Many of the tears shed this year were still in relation to the past aches of 2016.

What single achievement are you most proud of?

I am proud of always finding reasons to stay.

For one, there was a time when I really, really wanted to quit MedChoir. I felt that it was taking too much of my time and energy, and was also taking a toll on my mental health. There were many days with triggers, days where I just couldn’t manage to perform well, days where I was always on the brink of crying during rehearsals. It’s not supposed to be that way, I thought. There has to be another reason of staying besides the fact that I was needed. But then I saw some post saying that continuous pressure can make you hate doing the things you love. I have forgotten what turned me around during this time -- probably my friends, or taking a step back to appreciate the music like I once did. Or just the energy that we get from each other. Whatever it was, I’m glad I stayed.

I’m also proud of myself for staying in med school. Not that I actually have the choice to leave anyway, what with the millions my family would have to pay. But the thing is, I actually want to stay now. (Well, most of the time.) I’ve always feared that maybe the doctor life isn’t for me, but this ICC year has proven otherwise. Although a big factor of this is that we’re still babies in the hospital, the mere baby steps of actually enjoying interviewing, examining, and just getting to know patients was life-changing for me.

What was the best news you received?

I can think of two off the top of my head. The first, that one of our Christmas gigs got us an unexpected @@ thousand pesos (so that was around @@ thousand per song... what???), and the second was the news that one of my aunts was going to adopt a baby. This has some MMK style plot behind it, by the way -- politics, cheating, and whatnot. It didn’t push through, though. I hope that baby lives well.

What was your favourite place that you visited in 2017?

South Korea, no question!!!

1) Day 4 - The Garden of the Morning Calm. This day was my favorite. Our morning was spent in the astoundingly beautiful Nami Island. Picturesque. Trees, nature, ...and a very ideal place for dating, haha! For all ages pa. We saw couples young and old, holding hands while walking. This was where we made a pact that we’ll go back to Korea when we all got our own SO’s. That night we went to The Garden of the Morning Calm, where I thought the expanse of land decorated with lights just wouldn’t end! It really seemed like a different world back there.

2) Day 2 - Palace hopping! We went to the Gyeongbokgung and Changdeokgung Palaces. We joined the free English guided tour of the places and learned a lot. We even joked about making it like an SGD, like the bibo kids we are, hungry for learning. Haha! Photo (c) Bana

3) Day 1 - My travel buddies, Bana and Reg. For our first day, we walked around the makeup and skincare heaven that is Myeongdong and ate a lot of oh so glorious streetfood.

4) Day 3 - We went to the Namsan Tower to cap off the day... Featuring the toilet that got away.

I’m so so so glad this trip pushed through, na nakaldkad ako nina Bana and Reg to this land! I wasn’t even a hardcore Kdrama fan and I think I was initially invited just because Gio was supposed to go as well, haha. But these two welcomed me to their group, and it was such a beautiful experience! Lots of walking, sites, damn Korean couples, and food!!!!!!!!!!! These pictures are just a preview of the places we’ve been to, and the photoshoots we have so shamelessly done. Here’s our itinerary from Bana’s blog, and photos from Bana’s album, and my album!

Which of your personal qualities turned out to be the most helpful this year?

I honestly don’t know, haha. Whenever I’m asked about my strengths, I tend to think of my weaknesses instead. For this, maybe the best answer is my openness to try new things. Or just that I really tend to appreciate some people and experiences in my life. I’m in no way consistent in any of these qualities, but during the occasions that I am such, I could really feel the difference.

Who was your number one go-to person that you could always rely on?

This constant used to be Gio. After he left, I can’t say that I really have that single go-to person. Nevertheless, I could often rely on #clingy2020 and our thorough SGD’s whenever we’re going through a rough patch. I will specially mention my beshie Ian, who could always make me have a good laugh and at the same time discuss the not-so-lighter things in life.

Okay, I didn’t expect this post to be this long haha. I haven’t even gone through half of the questions yet! I guess I’ll do this in parts instead. Next year na yung iba. (He he he.)

#2017 #medschool #medchoir #life #i need better tags lol

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The 2 Part Traffic System For Bringing People To Your Blog or Website Without Tireless SEO efforts What you'll learn Know the exact steps needed to generate thousands of free targeted visitors to their site or blog Understand the difference between launch and long term traffic strategies so you can efficiently apply them at the right time Generate free, targeted traffic to their site without spending thousands of dollars on paid traffic Requirements Students won't need any materials or software, the information in this course covers everything they need. As long as you have a website, then this course will show you how to bring in a huge audience. Description Do You Want To Build A Huge Following On Your Blog And Make A Tonne Of Passive Income? Building A Blog Is Easy. The Hard Part? Building A Huge Audience. That's where I come in. My name is Daniel Boehm and I've been blogging since 2008, and currently, make a full-time income online. The biggest worries I had when I started my first blog was, "How do I get people here? I need people to make money, and I don't have time writing article after article and "hoping" that people find me. If you have the same doubts and worries, then this course is for you. For years I struggled with getting traffic to my site, trying all kinds of cheap tactics and wrong advice that eventually got my site penalized on search engines. Let Build a tonne of traffic to your site with the strategies I'm about to share with you and you'll start ranking well in Google naturally. I'll take it one step further and say that you won't even need Google's help to send visitors your way. You'll have hundreds of thousands of visitors flooding your site from other avenues. Here's a little of what you'll discover inside this course. How to reach out to other bloggers and get them to send traffic to your site, even if you have nothing to give in return. The #1 strategy you need if you want social news sites to send you viral traffic overnight (doing this wrong can get your site banned on those platforms) A few simple Facebook growth hacks that will build up your Facebook page 100x faster so that you can send a tonne of traffic to your from Facebook. The perfect formula for writing articles that people will love every single time and why doing it any other way is a massive waste of time and a whole lot more... I'm not going to take credit for these strategies. I've consulted with many website owners and traffic experts, read everything I could on this subject and then added my own personal experience to develop this system. The system is very simple to learn and the strategies can be implemented immediately. You will see a massive increase in traffic tomorrow if you follow exactly what I lay out in this course. Don't take my word for it. Use the strategies I show you in this course, and if your blog isn't seeing the increase in traffic that I'm promising, you have 30 days to request a refund. It's as simple as that. All this without a single SEO tactic. Sound good? Click the enroll button now and get started straight away. Who this course is for: This traffic generation course is designed for people who want to build a huge audience to their site, whether you have a brand new site or are struggling to get traffic to a site you've already built. Created by Daniel Boehm Last updated 3/2016 English English Google Drive https://www.udemy.com/website-traffic-mastery-how-to-generate-website-traffic/ Read the full article

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How Digital Marketing Will Change in 2019

Digital marketing is going to change drastically in 2019. And sadly, you aren’t going to like a lot of the changes.

And no, I don’t mean change from a competition standpoint. You already know that each year marketing gets more expensive and more competitive. That’s just a given.

Just look at the graph above: that’s Google’s annual revenue. As you can see, during the last recession, Google made more and more money. They didn’t even have a down year.

One of the big reasons we are seeing digital marketing change so much is because of the adoption of new technologies. But also because the web is getting saturated… there are 1,805,260,010 websites on the web.

That means there is 1 website for every 4 people in this world. That’s crazy!

So, let’s dive into it… here’s how digital marketing is going to change this year.

Drastic Change #1: SEO won’t look the same

I’m starting with this one because I know you are going to hate this. SEO is moving to voice search.

In 2018, 2 out of every 5 adults used voice search once per day. But in 2020, 50% of all searches will be done through voice search according to ComScore.

And it won’t just be people speaking into their microphone on their cell phone or laptop, 30% of web browsing won’t even take place on a device with a screen. That means more people will be searching through devices like Google Home or Alexa.

I know you don’t like this because every time I blog about voice search, no one really reads the article. It’s one of those topics that SEOs just wish didn’t exist.

Why?

Well, being on page 1 doesn’t matter when it comes to voice search. Either Google pulls from your website or they don’t.

And secondly, conversions from voice search will be lower because people won’t be going to your website. Google will just be giving them the answer. At least, until we can figure out how to solve this as marketers.

But instead of looking at voice search as a bad thing, just think of it this way, no one cares to read articles about it, which means most SEOs won’t be prepared for it.

This is your chance to get ahead of your competition and gobble up that traffic before the market shifts into using voice.

Here are some articles that will teach you how to maximize your voice search traffic:

The Definitive Guide to Voice Search

How to Optimize for Voice Search (4 Simple Strategies)

How to Get Extra Traffic From Voice Search

Drastic Change #2: Expect algorithm updates to be more complex

According to the Moz algorithm changelog, there were 12 updates in 2018.

Although it sounds like a lot, it isn’t. In 2017 there were 13 updates and in 2016 there were 11. In other words, Google has been averaging 12 updates per year if you combined the confirmed updates with the “unconfirmed” ones.

But let’s look at the older updates…

On July 17, 2015, Google released Panda 4.2. I know you may have hated the Panda update, but it wasn’t too bad. All Google did doing was get rid of spammy sites with low-quality content.

They didn’t want to rank sites that had thousands of 300-word blog posts with duplicate content.

Could you blame them for that?

And what about the change Google made on September 27, 2016, the Penguin 4.0 update?

If you built spammy links, they no longer would just penalize you, in most cases, they would devalue those links instead.

That means if you did something shady like buy a ton of backlinks and get caught, those links would just be de-valued instead of causing your whole site to get banned.

Now if you look at the latest algorithm updates, they are getting more complex and harder to beat. And it’s because technology is evolving so fast.

Google no longer has to just look at metrics like content and backlink count to figure out if a site ranks well. They can look at user metrics, such as:

Are users spending more time on your site than the other ranked sites on Google?

Are people bouncing off your site and heading back to the Google listing page?

Are your brand queries increasing over time? Or do people not see you as a brand?

Do people find your site more appealing… in other words, is your click-through-rate higher?

If you want to beat Google, you have to shift your mindset. It’s not about understanding Google, it’s about understanding users.

Google has one goal: to rank sites that users love the most at the top. That causes people to come back, keep using Google, and increase their overall revenue.

If you can put yourself in your users’ shoes, you’ll be better suited to do that.

The first step in doing this is to realize that when someone performs a search for any keyword, they aren’t just “performing a search,” they are looking for a solution to their problem.

By understanding the intent of their search, you’ll be more likely and able to solve their problems. You can use tools like Ubersuggest to help you with it as it will show you long tail phrases (problems people are trying to solve for).

Once you do that, you’ll be able to create the best experience, the best product, or even service that people deserve.

This is how you make your site continually rank well in the long run even as they make their algorithm more complex.

Drastic Change #3: You can’t build a company off of 1 channel

You familiar with Dropbox?

Of course, you are, it’s a multi-billion-dollar company… and you probably have it installed on your computer.

When they first came out, they tried to acquire users through Google AdWords. Can you guess how much it cost them to acquire a customer?

It ranged between $200 and $300.

Do you know how much Dropbox costs?

$60 a year.

The math doesn’t work out. Why would you spend $200 to acquire a user who only pays $60?

Even when someone pays you $60, it’s not all profit. Because of that, Dropbox had to grow using growth hacking.

Dropbox gives you more free space the more users you invite. That��s a great example of growth hacking. And it’s how they grew into a multi-billion-dollar company.

Nowadays, if you created a similar invite flow within your company, it won’t work that well. You can no longer build a company using one channel like how Dropbox grew.

And do you remember how Facebook grew?

When you signed up, they would tap into your email address book and send out an email to every single one of your contacts inviting them to use Facebook, even if you didn’t want them to.

That one channel helped Facebook grow into the multi-hundred-billion-dollar company that we know today.

Nowadays, if you get an email saying your friend is inviting you to join a new site or social network, you’ll probably just ignore it.

Again, you no longer can build a big business leveraging only one marketing channel.

So, what does that mean for you?

First of all, popular marketing channels that are profitable get saturated fast and you are going to have a lot of competitors.

Due to that, you have to leverage all channels. From content marketing and paid ads to social media marketing and SEO to email marketing… you have to leverage all channels out there.

It’s your only option to doing well in the long run.

One channel won’t make your business anymore. But if you combine them all, you can still grow your business.

And hey, if something happens to one channel like an algorithm change, at least your business won’t go down too much because you are diversified.

No matter how much you love one form of marketing, never rely on it. Adopt an omnichannel approach.

Drastic Change #4: Blogging won’t work too well

I got into this a little bit at the top… the web is saturated. There are just way too many sites.

Sure, most of those 1.8 billion sites aren’t being updated and a lot are dormant.

Now out of those 1.8 billion sites, roughly 1 billion of them are blogs. That’s roughly 1 blog for every 7 people out there.

When I started my first blog in 2005, there weren’t as many people online creating sites or producing content. There also weren’t as many people using Google.

Nevertheless, Google loved content. Everyone was saying how content is king because if you produce high-quality articles Google would rank them due to one simple fact… they lacked content in their index.

But as time went by, Google no longer had a shortage of content. I would even go as far to say that there is too much content for them to choose from.

For that reason, they can be pickier if they want to rank your website or not. It’s not just about backlinks or optimizing your on-page code, it’s about providing what’s best for the end user.

That means Google is going to rank fresh content that isn’t regurgitated.

If you want to take the route of just writing dozens of articles each way and trying to rank for everything under the sun, you can. It’s still possible, but it will take more time and it will be harder as there is more competition.

More so, the way content marketing is changing in 2019, and we saw a little of this in 2018, is that you need to update your content.

No longer can your strategy be to write a lot of content. You are going to have to plan on updating your content on a regular basis.

For example, I have one person who works for me full time going through my old blog posts to update them. Also, I now only have time to write once piece of content each week. There is no way I can go through my blog and update over a thousand blog posts.

You’re going to have to do the same if you want to maintain your search traffic. If you are established and have an old blog, spend half your time updating your old content. If you are a new blog, you don’t really need to spend more than 5% of your time updating your old content.

Drastic Change #5: You’ll need to focus on new search engines and new content types

We can all agree that text-based content is saturated.

If you don’t agree with me, just scroll back up to Drastic Change #4 😉

We all know it takes forever to rank on Google. If you aren’t willing to give it a year, you shouldn’t spend much time doing traditional SEO.

What if I told you there was another form of SEO in which you can see results very, very fast?

So fast, that within 30 days (or even a few days!) you can rank at the top. And, better yet, those rankings mean you will get traffic.

Just look at my search traffic from this different kind of search engine:

Can you guess that what search engine this is?

YouTube!

I generate 198,380 views every month from YouTube search. And those people watch my content for an average of 559,237 minutes a month.

I’m generating over 388 days of watch time each month just from YouTube search. That’s crazy!

YouTube isn’t nearly as competitive as Google. Nor is optimizing for the iTunes store if you have a podcast.

Don’t just focus your efforts on Google.

Focus your efforts on less-saturated forms of content like video and audio while optimizing for less common search engines like YouTube and iTunes.

Plus, these new channels have a very lucrative audience as they are engaged. Did you know that 45% of podcast listeners have a household income of $75,000 or more?

Here are some articles that’ll help you out:

How to Hack YouTube SEO

How to Create a YouTube Traffic Jam

Is YouTube Marketing Really Worth It?

How to Improve Your iTunes Rankings

iTunes SEO: What Works Now

If you don’t have a big marketing budget no worries. These channels aren’t as expensive or competitive yet. You also don’t need a studio to film or record. You can just bust out your iPhone and start recording yourself.

Believe it or not, a lot of people prefer that over studio quality content as it is more authentic.

Drastic Change #6: Budgets will start shifting into conversion rate optimization

At the beginning of this post, I broke down Google’s yearly revenue.

As you can see it has continually increased even during recessionary periods.

Sure, some of it has to do with more people coming online. But also, the cost per click is rising.

Same with Facebook Ads. I literally know hundreds of affiliates who used to make over a million dollars a year in income because Facebook Ads were so affordable.

But in June/July 2017, Facebook crossed a point where they had more advertisers than inventory… at least in the United States.

Over time, that trend continued into other countries, which mean Facebook Ad costs drastically increased.

Just look at the graph below. As you can see, companies spend the majority of their budget on Google AdWords and Facebook Ads.

Now let’s look at what channel produces the highest ROI. Can you guess what it is?

SEO, right?

Although the chart shows SEO produces the biggest ROI, in reality, it is the second runner up.

What’s hard to see because it is classified as “other” in the chart and it is grouped with other marketing channels, is conversion rate optimization. And that channel produced the biggest ROI by far. It beat SEO by leaps and bounds.

It was just hard to see that because not enough companies spend money on conversion rate optimization. And when they do, it is a very small portion of their budget.

In 2019, start running A/B tests. Whether you use Crazy Egg or any other solution out there, don’t forget to include it in your marketing arsenal.

Drastic Change #7: Marketers will learn what funnels are

You may have heard of marketing funnels or sales funnels, but I bet you aren’t using them.

And no, a funnel isn’t something as simple an email sequence.

Because ads are getting more expensive, you’ll find yourself doing things like running more A/B tests (as I mentioned above), but it will only help so much.

As your competition also starts running A/B tests, you’ll find that ad prices will go up again.

So, what should you do?

You are going to have to upsell and downsell your visitors. I learned this tactic from Ryan Deiss years ago and he was spot on.

The best way to generate revenue isn’t to get more customers, it’s to get more money out of your existing customers.

Sure, your customer base is only going to spend so much. But if you offer upsells and downsells you can see increases in revenue from 10% to 30%. And some cases you’ll even double your revenue.

The key points with upselling and downselling are as follows:

Offer at least 2 or 3 upsells (or downsells).

If people don’t take the offer, considering offering the same offer again with monthly installments.

The best offers are speed and automation. In other words, if you can help people get results faster or in an automated way, they are much more likely to take it. People are lazy and impatient, hence speed and automation always win when it comes to upsells.

At this point you are probably wondering how to do all of this upselling or downselling, right?

You have to build a marketing funnel. The good news is, you don’t have to hire a developer, you can use solutions like Click Funnels and Samcart.

They are easy to use, and you can get started in minutes.

Conclusion

Expect 2019 to be a crazy year. What worked once, won’t work in 2019.

Technology is more sophisticated and with things like machine learning and artificial intelligence knocking at the door, we are going to be on a crazy rollercoaster.

Don’t be afraid, though!

If you take the concepts above and start working on them now, you are going to be in for a much smoother ride with fewer downs and more ups.

So what do you think is going to change in 2019?

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