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ddaengyoonmin · 6 years ago

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Chapter one

Pairing: Jungkook x reader, eventual Ot7 x reader in later chapters

Genre: Angst, fluff, uhh maybe smut eventually??

Theme: Based kinda on sword art online a lot of similar ideas and themes kinda combining the idea of them trapped in the game, but the world is closer to ALFheim online

Word count: 2.1k+

Warnings: Swearing?..I swear a lot it can’t be contained. Giant Bees?? Not too much to warn about for this chapter but future chapters might get crazy

*check my master list for the prologue, I suggest reading it first*

Next -> Chapter 2

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A bright light shone in from a missing blind. One of your bothersome, but too cute to be mad at cats must’ve broken it, you made a mental note to fix that later. It woke you up earlier than usual for a Friday, probably not a bad thing, you had a big day ahead of you. Working from home had its advantages such as being able to create your own schedule.

You had set the day aside to mentally prepare for and then try out your dreaded birthday gift you had received just the day before.

The clock read 8:00 am. You sighed as you pulled yourself out of bed, startling the young calico cat who had been sleeping on your stomach throughout the night. “Sorry velvet” you mumble sleepily. Though she should be used to the rude awakenings by now, given that you on the other hand had not gotten used to having a cuddly cat and always seemed to accidentally throw her off your lap in the mornings. Your other cat Tiger always kept to herself and usually slept on the top of her cat tree or on a top shelf in one of your closets.

Last year when you bought your new apartment you had marveled at the spaciousness of the classy two bedroom layout. You debated on turning that second bedroom into a room for Tiger to have all to herself, but decided that would only feed into your family’s idea you were becoming a crazy cat lady hermit. Instead it became your office, and today it was the room you decided you would try out the full dive gaming experience headset in. You had a comfortable black leather office chair that you usually spent most of your days in while you worked on your designs. You figured that would be fine to recline in while you went into the game.

After getting yourself a filling breakfast you fed Velvet and Tiger a little extra, not knowing how long you’d be in the game. Part of you hoped that your mom would be satisfied if you just tried it for 30 minutes or so, then you could get back to the practical reality you preferred to live in. But you still wanted to be prepared in case the impossible happened and you actually enjoyed yourself.

You picked up the sleek looking packaging that held the headset and the game you had been given. You let out a sigh and looked over to your pets, “lets give this a shot huh?” you said, looking at them as if they could understand you.

When you arrived to your office you plopped down into your comfy chair and finally opened the packaging. The headset was shiny and heavy, looking similar to a motorcycle helmet. In the back by the base of the neck there was a long wire the same shade of silver as the rest of the headset. You pulled out the instructions from the box and skimmed it over.

“Internal battery, internal memory to store data, in game items, and achievements”

“Pre-programmed with Faerie Realm installed, no updates or installation required”

“To enter the game is simple, put on the headset and click the large button on the side of the headset and say the command ‘LINK START’”

You felt skeptical of this whole thing, but you reasoned that they wouldn’t sell it to the public if it was unsafe.

With one last see ya later to Tiger and Velvet you plugged in the headset and carefully placed it over your head. It was a snug fit and there were straps to secure it underneath your chin.

A small wave of nervousness ran over you, you took a few deep breaths and put your pointer finger to the side of the headset and held the button. Loud and enunciated so as not to mess this up somehow, you said the command…

“LINK START”

Almost instantly, like falling asleep suddenly, everything went dark. It only lasted a few seconds until you were standing in a bright, white, empty room with no doors or windows. You looked to your left and right in a slight panic, you felt like you could hear some music start to play.

Then, catching you off guard a giant holographic screen projected onto the wall in front of you.

“Welcome new player!” A chipper voice rang out from the direction of the screen “It’s time to chose your fairy race, and dive into the world of Faerie Realm! Point your hand straight out fingers spread out to the screen and swipe to the right to scroll through the choices, make a fist for 10 seconds at the screen on the page of the Fairy race you choose and you will move on to the next step!”

On the screen an example character popped and you giggled at it. It was an image of you, but not totally you. Your hair was longer than in real life and it was dyed a turquoise shade of blue, you were wearing a tight royal blue and white dress that was much shorter than anything you’d ever worn before.

You had to admit from a designers point of view, that it was pretty interesting how they’d managed to do that. The thing that really caught your eye was that coming from behind your back was a pair of beautiful shimmering turquoise wings matching the hair, they were slightly transparent and had a light blue glow coming off of them. The title under this character “Water Fairy”

You scrolled over the other choices shortly, five options of fairy races each with different styles, perks and nerdy sounding stats you didn’t even bother to read. You were mostly focused on the look, and none stood out as much as the first you had seen and you settle on the Water Fairy, holding out a fist to the screen as it instructed.

The next step you were prompted to complete was to choose a username. You decide on “Velvet Tiger” in honor of your bestfriends at home. Once you held out your fist again to declare that you were sure of your name, the room turned dark again. Next you felt like you were falling, falling falling, and the perky voice echoed around you “Have fun in Faerie Realm!!”

With a loud thud you felt yourself hit grass, strangely you felt no sort of pain from your fall, odd.

You picked yourself up from the ground and brushed the dirt off of what you now realized was the same blue dress from the screen. You pull your now extremely long hair in front of your face to see it was indeed also the hair you had seen on yourself in the preview. “Color me impressed” You chuckled aloud.

You started to look around to get a bearing on your surroundings. “Umm...what exactly am I supposed to do?” You spoke aloud again, not sure if you were hoping someone would answer or that some sort of screen would pop up at your question. But nothing happened.

You were alone in the middle of the most perfect flowering field you’d ever seen in your life, it was beautiful, cream colored daisies scattered all around you. It was sunny and bright and the temperature was perfect. You could feel a light breeze press on your cheek, you brought your hand up to your face. “Woah…” you muttered. It was crazy to think none of this was real.

A noise suddenly snapped you out of your state of awe. You cocked your head to the side slightly. It was a humming noise getting louder and louder by the second.

To your surprise and horror the objects in question made themselves visible. “What the fuck!!!” You scream, and immediately start to book it in the opposite direction.

BEES? But not just regular bees, a swarm of GIANT bees about the size of your cats were headed straight towards you. You found yourself screaming out a series of fucks and holy shits as you tried to outrun the swarm, they were catching up faster than you could run. ‘Thanks mom, this is real fun’, you thought.

You were about to get to a treeline that was up ahead when you tripped and fell flat on your face, you winced, not because it hurt, (you realized this game must not let you feel pain, which is nice), but because you were just embracing the fact that giant bees were about to be your ‘game over’ only 5 minutes into the game.

A loud POW sounded out right behind you and you covered your ears and buried your head into the ground. A crackling noise like fireworks followed. And then...a beautiful sound.

“You okay miss?” A silvery voice spoke from above you.

You uncovered your ears and lifted your head up from your embarrassing position you had assumed when you thought your demise in this game was upon you.

What you saw when your eyes met the figure standing over you took your breath away. You had to try and keep a straight face and contain your awe so as not to further embarrass yourself.

The man standing over you looked like an angel covered in black. He had on a tight fitting black shirt with a gray jacket that was styled fitting to the theme of this game draped over top, and tight black skinny jeans to go with. From behind his back you could see a pair of shimmering translucent wings similar in design to yours but the color was a charcoal black.

He extended a strong looking hand towards you, but you were still frozen in a combination of awe and embarrassment. He retracted his hand, chuckled, and ran his fingers through his pitch black hair. You scurried to get up on your own snapping out of your daze and standing eye to eye with the man you asume must’ve just saved your ass from the killer bees.

“Um, thank you” You nervously mumbled his way. His eyes were kind as he met your gaze with a smile. You had to force yourself to keep your eyes on his as they seemed compelled to trail over all of his body. “You’re welcome” His smile grew bigger than it previously was. “You’re lucky I got here when I did! They were gearing up for some power stings that definitely would’ve sent you to a black screen at your level”

“At….my level?” You said with confusion. “Yeah, I can see your level right there” he pointed just to the left of your face. You for the first time notice a small screen was there that had your username, level, health and an option for ‘menu’ listed. “Oh..” you managed an awkward smile. You realized you could see his too, ‘Kookie, level 10, full health’ listed on the screen hovering next to him.

“I’ve been here since 12am when it opened” he said sheepishly running his hand through his hair again. “Games are kinda my thing and when I heard this was coming out I wanted to get ahead right away...did you just get here or something?” He questioned.

“Yeah, literally just a few minutes ago” you laughed “That was about to be a real short run” you winced at the not too distant memory. “I...uh..games aren’t really my thing”

He smirked at your comment “You don’t say?” he teased. You stuck your tongue out at him, then immediately felt embarrassed. Not totally sure what came over you to do that to a total stranger, but hey, it is just a game and he started it right? So you shook off the awkward feeling and decided to just go with it. He laughed a full belly laugh at your action and shook his head “Ok, I like your style ma’m, so I’m gonna take pity on your and show you the ropes here” He spoke cockily.

“Oh? And what makes you think I need your help?” You tried to come back with, only eliciting further laughter from him. “You’re right,” he put his hands up in fake defeat “those bees were completely defenseless to your ‘duck and cover in the middle of a field’ fighting methods”

You pouted slightly at the mention of that embarrassing part of the incident that had just occurred you are hoping to just pretend didn’t happen.

“Fiiine” you sighed “I really don’t know what I’m doing here, but don't take me for some damsel in distress that's going to worship you as her hero now or anything like that” His eyebrows raised high taken aback by your bluntness. “Of course. I have no doubt you take care of yourself well in the real world, on first impressions you seem to be a strong, independent woman…I admire that in a lady” he assured in an honest and serious tone, but then He stopped and took a few steps closer to you standing so close it sent a shiver up your spine.

He leaned in to your ear, tone changing from his previous statement into a more smooth and sultry whisper “But this isn’t the real world...you’ve stepped into my world now.” He pulled away, a smirk on his face.

Your eyes widened. What have you gotten yourself into…

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riichardwilson · 4 years ago

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Replay: Live with Search Engine Land season wrap-up—COVID and marketing disruption

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Since March, Live with Search Engine Land has provided marketers with an informal way to step outside their organizations and get a feel for the pulse of their industry as it navigates COVID, social justice movements, data regulation and algorithm updates.

Some of the insights shared by our dozens of panelists helped to explain trends or disseminate practical advice, both of which will be crucial to marketers as we move past these first six months of marketing agency disruption. While we all would like to maintain high hopes moving forward, the lessons we’ve learned during this period can help us prepare and build a foundation for success as the world continues to grapple with these extraordinary circumstances.

To recap the insights our panelists have shared, Search Engine Land’s Editor-in-chief, Ginny Marvin, hosted a special season wrap-up of Live with Search Engine Land, featuring fellow Search Engine Land editors Barry Schwartz, Greg Sterling and myself, George Nguyen.

COVID quick stats

Marvin set the tone of the session by laying down a timeline of events to illustrate the stranglehold effect that the coronavirus placed on economic activity.

On the opposite end, CPG and some other sectors saw growth as people turned to e-commerce: Target said they had 5 million new online shoppers; about 40% of those shoppers picked up products in-store. And, Shopify saw a 47% revenue increase YoY for Q1 2020.

Looking into the future, US e-commerce sales are expected to increase by 18% this year, according to eMarketer. That would put e-commerce at 14.5% of total retail sales; removing fuel and auto purchases puts that figure closer to 20%. However, this growth will not offset the loss of physical retail sales, which is expected to drop by 10.5%.

RELATED: E-commerce explodes: 45% growth in Q2

Takeaways from marketing experts during COVID

Prioritize your marketing agency momentum. Brands that can continue to run ads and other marketing agency campaigns should do so — that was the consensus during our digital commerce session of Live with Search Engine Land.

“What we found is that brands that go dark during recession, depression or even crisis-type periods have a very difficult time climbing back up the mountain once things begin to normalize,” Tony Verre, VP of e-commerce at Integer Group, said. Businesses that refine their marketing agency strategies when resources are tight, instead of stopping them altogether, are more likely to succeed during and after a recession, studies have shown.

Rethink your supply and fulfillment chain. Brands may opt to cut back on their marketing agency to save desperately needed resources, but they may also have no other choice: The pandemic’s disruption extended to supply chains, and businesses that may have been able to continue advertising may not have had inventory to sell, forcing them to halt their ads.

As an example, Marvin shared an anecdote about an Amazon seller she had spoken to: The seller stocked up on inventory in case her manufacturer were to abruptly shut down. Shortly thereafter, Amazon stopped taking non-essential items, “Suddenly, she had nowhere to ship it,” Marvin said.

Instead of resigning to her predicament and pausing her business, she was able to locate a warehouse that made auto parts, but do their own fulfillment through Amazon. She then made a deal with them to distribute her orders.

“You saw businesses being flexible in ways that, if you’d asked them two months ago if they could have pivoted their business model and fulfillment chain in two weeks [might have seemed impossible],” Marvin said.

Maintain your brand marketing agency efforts. Some organizations diverted more resources to their performance marketing agency campaigns, leaving their brand marketing agency efforts with the scraps.

“Suddenly during this time, we had everybody more or less saying the same things about the coronavirus,” said Sterling, pointing out the generic messaging that audiences quickly grew weary of. “It speaks to what differentiates marketers in a period like this … ultimately, I think brand is the differentiator in the end.”

Like a deer staring down a set of headlights, unexpected circumstances can paralyze unprepared brands. Build out processes that enable your organization to publish messaging that’s timely and aligned with what your audience expects to distinguish your brand from the competition.

RELATED: Content marketing in times of disruption — What brands need to consider to produce timely content and stay relevant during market upheavals

What the SERP can look like. As COVID cases proliferated throughout the US, people turned to search engines for the latest news and data — some of it, potentially lifesaving.

In response, Bing created a COVID tracker, revamped its search results page and added a CDC self-checker chatbot to help users determine whether they should seek medical help.

Google overhauled its coronavirus-related search results pages, adding a navigation tab that enables searchers to filter their results for more specific information, sections for common questions, local and national resources, and at-a-glance statistics for the nation and the geographic region of the user.

While the search results pages for coronavirus-related queries were created under special circumstances and are atypical of the results we commonly see, it provides us a glimpse of the direction that search engines could be headed towards as they implement features that resolve more of users’ searches without them having to actually click through on a listing.

We at Search Engine Land hope this series of live discussions, presentations, tutorials and meetups will help everyone stay sharp and up to date on tactics and best practices. We’ll be taking a break for a few weeks and start season two of Live with Search Engine Land in mid-September. Season two will focus on innovative marketing agency and we have a lot of exciting new topics lined up.

If you have an idea for a session or would like to join a panel, email [email protected] or fill out the pitch form here.

About The Author

George Nguyen is an editor for Search Engine Land, covering organic search, podcasting and e-commerce. His background is in journalism and content marketing agency. Prior to entering the industry, he worked as a radio personality, writer, podcast host and public school teacher.

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scpie · 4 years ago

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Replay: Live with Search Engine Land season wrap-up—COVID and marketing disruption

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COVID quick stats

Marvin set the tone of the session by laying down a timeline of events to illustrate the stranglehold effect that the coronavirus placed on economic activity.

RELATED: E-commerce explodes: 45% growth in Q2

Takeaways from marketing experts during COVID

Maintain your brand marketing agency efforts. Some organizations diverted more resources to their performance marketing agency campaigns, leaving their brand marketing agency efforts with the scraps.

“Suddenly during this time, we had everybody more or less saying the same things about the coronavirus,” said Sterling, pointing out the generic messaging that audiences quickly grew weary of. “It speaks to what differentiates marketers in a period like this . . . ultimately, I think brand is the differentiator in the end.”

RELATED: Content marketing in times of disruption — What brands need to consider to produce timely content and stay relevant during market upheavals

What the SERP can look like. As COVID cases proliferated throughout the US, people turned to search engines for the latest news and data — some of it, potentially lifesaving.

In response, Bing created a COVID tracker, revamped its search results page and added a CDC self-checker chatbot to help users determine whether they should seek medical help.

If you have an idea for a session or would like to join a panel, email [email protected] or fill out the pitch form here.

About The Author

Website Design & SEO Delray Beach by DBL07.co

Delray Beach SEO

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laurelkrugerr · 4 years ago

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Replay: Live with Search Engine Land season wrap-up—COVID and marketing disruption

[embedded content]

COVID quick stats

Marvin set the tone of the session by laying down a timeline of events to illustrate the stranglehold effect that the coronavirus placed on economic activity.

RELATED: E-commerce explodes: 45% growth in Q2

Takeaways from marketing experts during COVID

Maintain your brand marketing agency efforts. Some organizations diverted more resources to their performance marketing agency campaigns, leaving their brand marketing agency efforts with the scraps.

“Suddenly during this time, we had everybody more or less saying the same things about the coronavirus,” said Sterling, pointing out the generic messaging that audiences quickly grew weary of. “It speaks to what differentiates marketers in a period like this . . . ultimately, I think brand is the differentiator in the end.”

RELATED: Content marketing in times of disruption — What brands need to consider to produce timely content and stay relevant during market upheavals

What the SERP can look like. As COVID cases proliferated throughout the US, people turned to search engines for the latest news and data — some of it, potentially lifesaving.

In response, Bing created a COVID tracker, revamped its search results page and added a CDC self-checker chatbot to help users determine whether they should seek medical help.

If you have an idea for a session or would like to join a panel, email [email protected] or fill out the pitch form here.

About The Author

Website Design & SEO Delray Beach by DBL07.co

Delray Beach SEO

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kittyboo8015 · 7 years ago

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I was tagged by my one of my favorite authors and cat @kaguneko *scratches your ears* 💕💕💕

Questions for Ao3 Writers:

1. How did you come up with your username and what does it mean?

My username is kittyboo98 lol So it’s pretty much me being unoriginal again. Kittyboo is my childhood nickname and I was going to use kittyboo97 (birth year) but it was apparently taken? I find it fascinating that there could be another kittyboo out there lol

2. Which fanfic of yours has the most feedback? (bookmarks/subscriptions/hits/kudos)

I’m going to answer this based on my Eruri fics only because I stopped writing reader inserts over a year ago. So with that being said, Milestones has the most kudos at 43. Bookmarks are tied: Milestones and Clueless both have 5. Clueless has the most hits followed by Bad Behavior.

3. What is your AO3 profile icon, and why did you choose it?

My Ao3 icon is my RAH Levi’s face XD. I love it because I’m pretty sure the look of utter disgust on his face would be his response if he ever read my fanfics.

4. Do you have any regular/favourite commenters?

I have two I think and I’m very grateful that I have any at all 

5. Is there a fanfic that you keep going back to read again and again?

I think definitely Sugar by imawarlock (goddamnchou) I now own it in print 

Dancing in the Dark that Tanya and Zed wrote for my birthday this year (I love you guys) Ache and aisle 10 by Kaguneko. Good Southern Boys by Minxiebutt jfc hnngh There’s so many more but I’d be here all night lol

6. How many stories are you subscribed to? How many do you have bookmarked?

I’m subscribed to 20 stories and have 97 bookmarks.

7. Which AU do you find yourself writing the most?

Modern au, definitely.

8. How many people are subscribed and bookmarked to you in total? (you can view this on the stats page)

18 subscribers 15 bookmarks.

9. Is there something you’d like to write about but are afraid of people judging you for it? (Feeling brave? If so, share it!)

Not that I can think of lol

10. Is there anything you would like to be better at? Writing certain scenes or genres, replying to comments, updating better, etc.

Canonverse! I need to learn to write it. I love to read it though!

11. Do you write rarepairs or popular ships more often?

Popular because pretty much just Eruri 

12. How many stories have you posted on AO3 to this day (finished and unfinished)? 13 lol

13. How many stories do you have saved in/with your writing program?

Ummmmm like 15 ahahaha

14. Do you write down story ideas, or just keep them in your head?

Yes in my phone. So much rambling lol

15. Have you ever co-authored a story?

Not yet but I’d like to!

16. How did you discover AO3?

Tumblr lol

17. Do you consider yourself to be a popular or famous author in your fandom(s) on AO3?

Lmao not even close

18. Do you have a nickname or fandom name for your readers?Nope but I love you all

19. Was there an author who inspired or encouraged you to write?

I’ve told this story like a million times but I met Zed about almost 3 years ago on Ao3 in the comments of a fic and shortly after Zed started writing and somehow we became friends. When I said I would like to write someday, Zed just kept telling me to “Doooooooo it.” So I did and I was hooked lol Thanks Zed :*

20. What writing advice would you give to a beginning author?

I guess write what you like and write it for yourself because you want to and never force it. Write what makes you happy 

21. Do you plot out your stories, or do you just figure it out as you go?

Plot so much plot. Sometimes too much XD

22. Have you ever gotten a bad comment on a story? If so, what did you do?

I got a pretty vague condescending comment on a reader insert once (the fic was old lol) telling me that I need to write dialogue better followed by a sarcastic lesson in writing a dialogue. I just shrugged and moved on.

23. Is there a certain type of scene that you have a hard time writing? (action, smut, etc..)

I am working on getting better at smut. Hopefully I’ll improve over time. I need to add more details I think?

24. What story(s) are you working on now?

Still working on some prompts. (Vampires, Neetwin, Mobuhan) My freaking canon fic jfc By the New year, I plan on starting a Cop au series of one shots. I have a plot line and all.

25. Do you plan your next project(s) before you finish your current ongoing story(s)? See above XD

26. Do you have a daily writing goal set for yourself? Impossible with school going on. 27. Do you think you’ve improved as a writer since you first started? I really hope so….

28. What is your favorite story that you’ve written?

I think Milestones and Bad Behavior because the former was my first fic and cake theif Erwin is dear to me and the latter was launched by my obsession and thirst for Officer Erwin RIP me.

29. What is your least favorite story that you’ve written?

I like all of my fics.

30. Where do you see yourself (as a writer) in 5 years?

Well, I’ll be writing probably during summers because I’ll be teaching by then. I’ll write in my cozy apartment with my future cats Erwin and Levi lol

31. What is the easiest thing about writing?

Definitely thinking of the plot.

32. What is the hardest thing about writing?

Probably getting down the ideas in writing and trying to have it go as well as it did in my head.

33. Why do you write?

To preserve my sanity. Comfort definitely. I just love writing Eruri so much 

This was pretty interesting and fun! Thanks for tagging me! 💕💕💕I hope this is readable because this app is broken as Fuck.

I will tag @shippingeruri @hedera-helixwriteseruri @chuulain @tsukinoyoukai @tsukareta-levi @erurifluff Only if you want to of course! I can’t wait to read all of these!

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negispringfield · 8 years ago

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Bio Part 2: Abilities

(Because Negi’s entire background+ability descriptions would’ve made the entire thing over 25k words, I figured it’d be better to split them up in order to make it look less overwhelming. That out of the way, here’s the section defining all of Negi’s abilities. You can find his character info and background located here)

(DO note on Skills and power. Negi is incredibly strong by a fair amount of verses standards. I mean, he can ultra-casually throw around tactical nuke grade power with a flick of his wrist even at the low end views. So keep this in mind if you ever choose to fight him. He's not invincible though, just pretty damn strong and hard by the standards of verse that don’t get into cosmic stuff.)

(Also due to the very long list of powers he has, I may miss a thing or two. I’m certain I got 99% of his abilities and all the important or major stuff, but something may have slipped by. So I deeply apologize if anything has and it comes up in a thread.)

(Some info on Negimaverse magic can be found here. Negi’s spell list can be found here)

(Oh, and the TL;DR set of his powers can be found at the bottom of the page if you don't feel like reading all this. It also includes the various low/mid/high end interpretations of his feats across things, such as the canon manga and the questionably canon AU anime final which had MUCH stronger stuff.)

Skills/Powers: Despite being only 11 years old, Negi has mastered an incredibly huge arsenal of abilities. These range from inhuman martial arts skill, to magic of such a caliber to far exceed nukes many times over and make him one of the strongest mages in the world and mundus magicas, along with being able to survive those same attacks. Negi has an affinity for Lightning and Wind magic, but is able to use many other types of magic if needed, such as fire magic. This is just a small sample of the abilities Negi has.

(SIDE NOTE 1: To avoid updating every single section of this anytime Negi gets stronger on this blog, because he is a young child and advances in strength at the speed of lighting, and those power boosts are much harder to look up compared to canon manga feats, you can find his most current stats on the TL;DR section. Any really notable leaps in strength will be noted in their respective sections.)

(SIDE NOTE 2: Negi, by the time he’s naturally grown up, has an insane amount of hype for how strong he is, but it’s largely statements right now. To avoid putting the same, one line thing into most of these, I’ve put his statistics as an adult in the Stat summary/TL;DR section. This is for the rare times I ever use him.)

PHYSICAL STATS:

Super Strength:

Negi possesses ridiculous physical strength, His casual punches can send out shockwaves that are able to cause huge explosions and send large portions of the ground flying in every direction for many kilometers at a time. Negi is also physically on par with someone able cause an earthquake across an entire city with the air pressure of their punch from several dozen meters in the air, while holding back, and casually send an ancient dragon over 100 meters in size, spinning with a hit.. He can also physically harm people able to withstand attacks on the scale of his spells, which effortlessly vaporize mountains with mid tier spells and cover portions of entire planets with top tier spells. He has no problem lifting things for a long time either, as Negi did several thousand push ups with a massive boulder bigger then a bus on his back without breaks, when massively weaker then his current self.

Finally, his strength should be a tier or so or so behind his father, who was able to punch so hard, the shockwave of their punch traveled several dozen kilometers and still had enough energy to create an explosion several dozen kilometers in size and blew away all the clouds across the horizon. As an adult, he’s on par to superior to his father.

His striking force scales to the destruction his magic is capable of causing.

With his magic completely sealed, Negi’s physical strength drops dramatically, being just slightly superhuman.

As an adult:

Super Speed:

Another trait Negi possesses is super speed. After mastering Magia Erebea, Negi speed has reached massively inhuman levels of speed, reaching near that of the speed of light, just shy of 300,000 kilometers per second, in close combat speed. Jack Rakan, whom Negi is comparable to in base form in speed, blocked a barrage of blows moving at the speed of light, though he admitted he could not dodge them. Furthermore, spirits of prophecy, far below Negi and Jack Rakan, could make many exact movements within the very low nanosecond range, one after the other. Though his reaction time is incredible, Negi’s long-distance movement speed is significantly lower, reaching high hypersonic levels at maximum.

In his Lightning Forms, however, Negi’s movement and reflexes accelerate dramatically, with his long-distance speed literally rocketing to the speed of the fastest in a stepped leader lightning strike, 2600 kilometers per second, reaching almost 8000 times the speed of sound (This is about 17 times faster then the average speed of a lightning strike, which is only about 150km/s or mach 440) and his reaction time in this form very likely matching or even exceeding the speed of light, given he is much faster than even Jack Rakan, in Lightning Form. His first lightning form has a weakness, though, in that he cannot change his direction once he has started moving. The second lightning form boosts his mental thinking up to the same speed and also allows him to change direction midmovement. It may even be probable that Negi can accelerate the speed of the lightning to reach even faster movement speed as their older self speedblitzed fighters who could previous keep up with it when he was 10.

With his magic completely sealed, Negi briefly outpaced helicopters while having to climb through buildings. The average speed of a helicopter is 100-150/mph, making him at least several dozen mph in movement speed. Secondly, Evangeline, with her magic also completely sealed, attacked a martial artist faster than they could see, despite them looking right at her. Considering their magic was sealed, Evangeline and Negi should’ve physically been comparable, thus his reaction/combat speed is faster than the human eye can see even with his magic sealed.

Martial Arts Mastery:

Negi is inhumanly skilled in martial arts, having gotten to the skill level of those who practice for months, only hours after he started training and progressed by orders of magnitude since then. His various accolades include, being able to prevent someone stronger and faster than him from landing a single hit for over 15 minutes midway into the manga, trouncing entire rooms of enemies at once, man handling elite bounty hunters, managing to hold his own for an extended time against his teacher whom is among the most skilled fighters to ever exist in his verse, and being a more skilled fighter than multiple constructs created by God and implanted with the knowledge to be supreme masters of combat, with centuries of memories behind them.

Negi has had several teaches in his time and has completely mastered several martial arts. Negi's list of teachers include someone who directly studied with the creator of Aikido and practiced for centuries. Said person who taught Negi, also could utterly dominate superhuman tier fighters, who themselves were skilled fighters, with nothing but pure skill and the strength of a little girl, no magical reinforcement what so ever and is one of the most skilled fighters in both worlds. While not quite on this persons level, Negi is able to somewhat keep up with this person in a fight for a period of time. His martial arts skill, coupled with his amazing strength and speed, allow him to dominate almost anyone in CQC, being able to preform many complex maneuvers or dodge and counter even complete surprise attacks with no wasted effort or movement.

In addition Negi also has shown high skill in swordsmanship and staff combat. His swordmanship skills are great enough to contend, for an extended period, with a construct created by God and implanted with the knowledge to already be a great master at combat. His staff combat prowess is unknown, as he largely disregards it later, but it assumed to be comparable or greater than his swordmanship, but behind his H2H skill, given his attachment to his fathers staff and he tore through an army of demons 2000 strong with virtually no effort using the staff, with characters commenting on how impressive it was.

Super Durability:

This area is one Negi has in spades. His durability is so great when augmented by his passive magical reinforcement, it took a combination attack(To which he contributed) at ground zero from 2 abilities as strong as his greatest, world breaking spell to vaporize his body, this when he was entirely focused on offense.

Furthermore, after regenerating and being low on magic, he even took several punches to the face immediately afterwards from someone almost as strong as him, remaining standing through it all, and almost immediately after that, he survived being disemboweled by an energy blast, and a weaker version of his ultimate attack x3 without his magical barrier up, but just barely. He also possesses durability against other things as well, with sword slashes from regular humans doing absolutely nothing to magically reinforced people near the series start using Negi's power when he was shortly out of magic school. And he is FAR, FAR, FAR, more powerful now. He is also bullet proof and can withstand blows from beings of similar strength as him. His durability can be amped higher with barriers.

When his magic is completely sealed, Negi’s durability drastically decreases, to where a mild car crash is the upper limit of what he could tank without much damage, though his regeneration is still in full effect.

Super Intelligence:

Perhaps Negi's greatest asset. At the age of 9 he was qualified to be an English teacher at a middle school with a degree from Oxford, with the highest grades that were seen in over a decade. In addition he can quickly learn or create high level spells in days when it takes people decades, if not CENTURIES to do. He has done many other things as well, ranging from learning how to use a function of a magic type in days that the creator of it, who spent decades on it, thought was too impractical to use, reaching the same skill in martial arts in hours that would take most people months, learning languages in 2 weeks, in days figuring out how to use a time travel device for combat when it took 2 super geniuses(That included the creator of said device, his decedent) 2 years worth of testing to do the same, and coming up with a plan to save the magical world when the disciples of the creator of it thought his method was impossible. His idea worked. Negi's intelligence makes him a definite super genius.

Soul and Mind:

Negi possess an EXTREMELY strong soul and mind. When he was significantly weaker, he withstood the impact of dying 70 times and fighting for 10 days straight during a mental trial, during which he sustained real injuries on his body. It was specifically noted one needed a strong soul and mind. Negi's soul is also able to take 2 thousand thunderbolts(just one being capable of covering a decent portion of a planet.) being fused with it. In addition Negi remained in control of the soul and mind corrupting Magia Erebea for much longer then expected, eventually bending it’s corruption completely to his will and suppressed it, only losing control when taking a fatal injury.

He later was reborn by the magic after dying, becoming something no longer human in the process. He is incredibly resistant to effects and attacks on ones soul, being even able to recover having his entire soul corrupted and possibly even destroyed and anything short of the entire timeline collapsing.

He has also resisted a magical object which forces the person it's used on do or say what is commanded of them. He resisted it's influence several times in a row, despite it also seemingly restricting his powers. In addition to this, he resisted the corrupting influence of Magia Erebea on his mind for a very long time. That said, while he possesses high resistance to mental assaults and mind control, he is NOT immune or resistant to mind reading on a conditional basis(See headcanon #18 for details). Except in Lightning Form. See headcanon #5 for more about that.

His mind is also strong enough that he was able to remember and quickly figure out he'd been sent to a fake world that rewrites the users memories to completely fit with a new timeline and alters it.

The resisting corruption of and eventually bending to his will of Magia Erebea is especially impressive, since even Divine level healing magic was unable to cleanse its power.

Above and beyond all this, however, is what Negi’s older self accomplished. For over 20 years, they continuously and without breaks, withstood all the negative emotions felt by anyone ever by 2085, totaling almost 120 billion people, trying to crush and soul and mind so The Lifemaker could possess them.

Super Stamina:

Part of the magic he uses to reinforce his body gives Negi vastly inhuman stamina. People slightly above his level have fought for over half a day straight with nothing but constantly fighting, against someone of their strength as well. He also possesses magic to remove tiredness.

Negi doesn't have any trouble repeatedly casting high level magical spells during the same fight. When much weaker than he is now, Negi was capable of using the ultimate lightning spell five times, in addition to all his other magic, in an extended battle where he took heavy damage and still have energy to fight. His stamina might be even higher, capable of fighting for days on end, as in a mental trial which had real affects on his body he fought for 10 days straight before becoming in danger of running out of energy.

When not constantly fighting, Negi has little trouble staying up more or less indefinitely if he wanted, partially in thanks to his immortality negating any negatives side effects of doing so. This is helped by earlier mentioned spells to remove tiredness.

Super Agility:

As with nearly every attribute, Negi possesses vastly inhuman agility, being able to do things such as easily leap across a multitude of falling rocks before they can fall an inch, while making many dodges of an enemies attack that chased him, or move his body in flexible ways that normal humans would be unable to replicate in the slightest.

The magic supplied to his body also makes it impossible to over exert himself and cause damage to the body that way, such as pulling a muscle.

Even without his magic, Negi is superhumanly agile, but much less so than normal. His father, completely cut off from any magic, was able to perform many jumps, backflips, and spins while simultaneously carrying someone and avoiding massive monsters from several angles.

Massive Pain Tolerance:

Negi has a truly absurd amount of pain tolerance, his forearm getting cut off didn’t even slow him down. He can even fight somewhat with massive injuries(Though pretty much any injures heal instantly due to regeneration now.) such as being impaled through the upper torso by a massive stone spear. As part of his pain tolerance, he has completely inhuman endurance, able to have an extremely long fight with someone nearly his level and then more or less survival his ultimate attack twice over, at point blank, then several punches to the face from his opponent, being disemboweled and impaled by a spell, then, without his barrier up, a weaker version of his ultimate attack x3, and still fight.

Further augmenting his pain resistance, Negi’s regeneration instantly removes virtually any pain he feels nearly as soon as it happens.

Disease, Illness, and poison immunity:

Since having been reborn by Magia Erebea, one of the many things that has happened to Negi’s physiology is taking on several inhumane traits, this including things like agelessness, regeneration, and immortality namely.

However, another trait Negi has gotten since his transformation has been full immunity to things like disease, illness, and poisons, mainly as a side effect due to his immortality and regeneration. While always having had some resistance due to his magic, this trait has grown exponentially since his rebirth.

MAGICAL ABILITIES:

Despite having extremely high physical prowess, Negi is also an extremely powerful magic user. Possessing many abilities(For a specific spell list, please see this link.), some of which are mundane, such as levitating objects, mind reading, to the more useful like breaking illusions, or controlling ones bodily functions, while the peak are capable of literally world shattering displays of power. Negi's power even allows him to break and destroy dimensions. The magic system of Negima also works on a conceptual level, in that, due to the understanding of the world having been different in ancient times, when magic developed, it can ignore physics and causality somewhat.

To give an example, “Fire” will never burn out, and can burn even in defiance of a source of fuel or oxygen, undeterred by places like a vacuum or underwater. This essentially makes the magic impossible to stop via convention means if one doesn’t have magic that operates a similar level. (Check near the top of this page for details)

Unchanted Spell:

Closer to an impromptu or a command, giving a strong impression that it is something the mage creates in response to the needs of the situation, allowing it to be used for virtually anything the mage desires*. For example, Negi’s creation of a love potion, and the manipulation of the brushes were both unnamed spells. As these spells use the power of the words directly, in a way, these are the truest definition of “spells”; magic can be established as long as words of a language of magic are put together as according to its grammatical rules. The effects of unnamed spells are not strong, but they can be freely created based on intents. The majority of magic a mage uses in normal life is most likely of this type. *NOTE: Before anyone thinks this is overpowered or an excuse to pull new things out of nowhere, this is largely for minor stuff, including and having displayed, but not limited to, translation spells, levitating objects, making potions, leaving an impression of yourself on something or someone, remotely controlling said impression to communicate, activating a time delayed message when a specific person touches something, or contacting someone via phone call, but without actually needing a phone. A.K.A largely non-combat and small time.

An unchanted spell is also a form of using traditionally chanted spells, but completely separate from the 1st type detailed above. A powerful mage sufficiently familiar with a type of magic requiring a chant, can instead perform the spell without any preparation. In such cases, performing the chant anyway can noticeably increase the power of the spell beyond its normal levels.

Ritual Magic:

Large scale, organized magic that is used to accomplish effects a mage normally could not on their own. They generally involve lengthy setups and can use various factors, such as positions of celestial bodies, blood sacrifices, or magical artifacts. The effect of this can vary, but almost always takes a long time to set up and the spells are single use. The most powerful mages can accomplish the effects of some rituals that minor mages would require, using their own spells and without extensive set up. Essentially, they are unchanted spells in that they can be used for almost whatever the mage desires, but significantly stronger and requiring extensive preparation to match.

Elemental Manipulation:

The staple of magic. While there are many other things one can do with magic, controlling the elements to do your bidding is the primary one for higher level magic. Every mage has a specialty or two, lightning and wind in Negi’s case, but that doesn’t mean they can’t learn other spells of differing elements, it’s just more difficult. Negi, being the magical genius he is and having studied under teachers of varying specialties, has a vast command over the elements, encompassing nearly all forms of the 4 classical elements and beyond, such as shadows, through which he teleports. On the lower end, he can do simple abilities, such as creating a ball of fire in his hand, freezing a puddle of water, or very subtly altering the atmospheric composition around him. Mid-tier level abilities can perform feats along the lines of call forth entire storms worth of lightning, encase an entire town in ice, and light as far as the eye can see on fire. At the absolute peak of his command over elements, Negi can summon up terrifying amounts of power, such as a blast of lightning able to break planets with ease.

This can even be used for incredibly subtle methods of manipulation, such as filtering out toxins in the air one breaths or manipulating soundwaves to alter your voice via wind magic, or altering the temperature with fire or ice magic.

By the time he’s an adult, Negi can easily be assumed to have mastery over all elements to a degree that’s unmatchable by all but the greatest masters of their individual elements. Such as Evangeline and Fate being comparable to him in ice and earth magic respectively, being the greatest masters of the element shown in Negima

Spell Delay:

The concept of casting a spell for later use is a basic one. In the beginning of the manga, Negi could only delay spells for up to 30 seconds before they lost their power. With Magia Erebea, Negi can take this concept to the next level and seemingly can delay spells indefinitely, unleashing them at a later time without any preparation normally needed for said spell.

There are two types of delayed spells, those which are stored to be used by the caster at a later point, whenever they deem it needed, and those activated via time delay at a very specific moment, generally defensive in nature. The later was demonstrated by Yue preemptively casting a paralysis curing spell before a fight and having it activate long after she was paralyzed and the attacker left, letting her escape without trouble. The latter case doesn’t seem to suffer from the same time restrictions as the other one.

Shundo/Instant Movement:

Also known as "Instant movement" is moves the user at very high speeds for a quick burst of speed, essentially a flashstep. Usually only high level mages can do anything but go one direction at a time, Negi is one of those high level mages. Being able to change directions mid use or even use it while floating in air. Despite it's name, it is not literally instant movement. One can, though they must be EXTREMELY fast or capable of predicting the opponent’s path, intercept it mid use. He mostly disregards using it in his Lightning Forms, due to having incredible speed naturally.

Furthermore, at higher levels, the user can move completely silently and without any disturbance or hint of their movement, such as wind displacement from moving quickly.

Illusions:

Though not commonly used on magical beings, due to there being spells to shatter them or higher level beings able to see right through them, even the most novice of mages can create incredibly complex and realistic illusions. A toddler, of whom no special or unique traits were attached too, of only several years of age was capable of creating illusions so realistic, they could be physically felt by a novice mage, including hits, and said mage was completely unable to distinguish them from reality until an inconsistency in the behavior of the illusionary person tipped them off. Against someone unable to see through illusions or shatter them and in the hands of far more skilled mages, phantasmal magic of this caliber can be a terrifying power.

At the highest levels, which Negi should assumably know, a mage can create a Phantasmagoria and drag others into it. A Phantasmagoria is akin to an illusionary, dream-like world in the mind of the mage that is completely under the mages control and can be altered in any way they desire, including and beyond altering the laws of reality. Skilled users can also heavily alter the perception of time within the Phantasmagoria, to where a lengthy adventure would appear to not even be a second in the real world. Despite being an “illusionary” world in the creator’s head, the experiences and sensations within them feel the same as real life, and can be fully interacted with.

Phantasmagoria, even with the fact the creator has near omnipotence within them and can trap others within them, are not an immediate win solution in a fight. A powerful or experienced mage can potentially take control of the illusionary world from the creator with their own magic, or even flatout escape the trap.

Mind/Dream Reading and Memory Sharing:

By making physical contact with a person, Negi can read the mind or memories of a person. Negi can dive through even some of the highest class mages’s mind or memories so quickly as to see most of their life story before the other finishes casting a spell and without being detected. As an extension of this power in a way, Negi is also capable of entering the dreams of others, though, this too requires physical contact.

As well as being able to read the thoughts of others, Negi is also capable of displaying memories to others. The memory is not viewed through 1st person, but is more like being physically there to experience the event, sensations included, but without being able to interact with the event or have the event interact with the one viewing it.

Clone Creation:

Negi is capable of creating clones in mass quantities, having displayed the ability to create over 1000 copies of himself. The clones in question are identical to Negi, being nearly impossible to detect from the original. They can also perform complex actions, as another clone user created a clone that stole an item from an enemy, carried it to teammates, and had a brief conversation with them, all while their real body suffered a brutal beat down by their opponent to near death.

The main weakness of the clones is that they are largely unsuited for combat outside of distractions and tricks like the above example, breaking apart after a single solid hit and not being as strong as the original, but are still very capable of inflicting some minor damage. The main exception to this are Negi’s Raiten Taisou form clones, which can all operate and move at the speed of lightning due to the mechanics of the form, just like his real body.

Alchemy:

Primarily the practice of making potions. With alchemy, one can make a variety of compounds with diverse effects. These can be something like a catalyst potion, a potion used to give a mage a crutch and provide them the ability to use spells they normally may be unable to cast, provided they have magical power in the ballpark of the spell, to consumables like love potions. Among higher level mages, it is generally disregarded, as their sheer magical power and spell arsenal can achieve the effects of most alchemy in a much quicker and high scale manner.

Barriers:

A common ability for all mages. Barriers can be used in a variety of ways. There are regular barriers, which are passive and around nearly all the time, unless the mage actively reinforce them, these usually don't add too much durability, and then there's the ones with a lot more power put into them to temporarily block an attack. These barriers are extremely powerful, as a normal one is able to block a 10 ton truck driving at full speed- from mages fresh out of magic school. Negi's barrier is significantly stronger.

If an attack is strong enough to not be completely stopped by the barrier, it can function as a shock absorber and reduce the damage done to the mage, even without breaking. However enough force will shatter a barrier anyway.

Barriers and wards can also be used for more than physical defense and protect from an immense variety of magical effects, even by lower level mages. Barriers formed by the highest level mages, can even match the effects of ritual wards and bounded fields, providing protection from an immense source of attacks past conventional ones, such as forced teleportation, scrying, magical senses, enable one to conceal their presence, tracking, mental attacks, curses, sealing, or even be combined with sealing magic, to name a few of many possibilities.

Magical Senses:

Magical senses are used to incredibly enhance someone's senses, such as better sight and hearing. Many users of magic or Magi also have ESP (Extrasensory Perception) and are able to read the minds of others, distinguish among particular magic powers, perceive future events, detect infiltration into a specified area, be aware when one's self is being observed, sense the feelings of one to whom one is close, note the presence of a spiritual being, see through an illusion, detect the presence and location of another Magi, among other forms of truly extraordinary, extrasensory perception. Negi's senses are powerful to the point can even detect Fate Averruncus, a construct by a world creating god with magical power to match the world’s greatest, who hid their presence, and that security at a magical gate between the real world and magical world could not, when significantly weaker than he is now.

Someone, who has comparable or even lesser magical senses then, Negi could sense and instantly find someone who had teleported far away and spread 17 clones of themselves across an entire capital city.

Those with developed enough senses can also be extremely sensitive toward even the most subtle and quickest changes in an environment. World-Class mages can even predict and intercept natural lightning strikes from close range, solely from predicting where it’ll strike based on the subtle and minute changes in the air by the positively charged streamers that last for nanoseconds, even if they cannot actually follow the speed of the lightning on raw reaction time.

Magical Resistance:

This is mostly for defensive purposes, it allows a high enough level mage resist many things, mostly anything magical related but even things not magic related, like illness. It also allows things like not being bothered by extreme cold or heat at all, to the point where things as hot as nukes or as cold as fridged snowstorms or being frozen solid, do not even bother them. Another example is fire hot enough to vaporize steel didn't even phase Negi. It also has more exotic uses, such as resistance against transmutation, even time stops, and various other abilities such as hypnosis or electrocution on the level of natural lightning, to name a few of many.

Negi's unique bloodline also gives him an extremely high natural resistance against almost anything magical nature. A paralyzing spell meant to instantly turn an entire person to stone took minutes to even start turning his fist to stone back when he was only a bit out of magic school and has grown greatly since then. The magical resistance granted by Negi's bloodline is so great, that he can magically resist and reverse effects on his person which require divine level of magic to undo normally, this even extends to reality warping and total erasure from existence. Someone stronger than Negi can still afflict him with magical ailments, but the difference must be worlds apart and they will still be applied at a significantly reduced rate.

Magical Barriers can be used to further augment a mage’s natural magical resistance.

(Further details can be found here)

Magical Reinforcement:

Like most mages, Negi can use magic to enhance his entire body, supplying mana to every part of his being and even internal organs are made incredibly durable. This also prevents Negi from over exerting his body and causing any damage, such as pulling a muscle.

Being an extremely powerful mage, he can use this to an incredibly high degree, allowing various things such as super strength, speed, stamina, durability, and other things like magic resistance.(See physical stats section for more.) It even extends to areas like hearing or sight, as something which almost deafened a superhuman person did not even bother Negi, nor did a massive bright light given off by a huge explosion bother him. People slightly above Negi could see and recognize a person entire city lengths away, while they were observing the person in a high speed fight.

The way that magical reinforcement is done upon the body is in a manner that means things like physical strikes, aren't magical in nature and are just upscaled punches, as if from a normal person, but many times stronger. In effect, this allows mages to harm even those with powerful anti-magic, such as Asuna, who is completely immune to all forms of magic due to Magic Cancel, with their physical blows.

Disspelling/Anti-Magic:

The paradoxical act of using magic to disperse magic. Negi himself doesn’t make much usage of this, as in the manga, he is personally massively resistant to magic, and the act of dispelling or healing ailments is left to someone able to cast top-tier magic like this, or Asuna’s Magic Cancel. However, as he is highly skilled in most areas of magic and this is required magic to be learned by beginners, it is assumed that Negi is capable of removing a wide variety of magical ailments or lessening their effects, even for effects on the area, like illusions.

Sealing:

A magic even beginner mages learn. A mage can impose a seal in a variety of ways, such as trapping an entity within an item, such as a bottle, or using the landscape itself as a seal. Higher level mages can form their own barriers to seal enemies or their magical power in. Negi is especially skilled at sealing spiritual entities, being able to seal high class spiritual demons able to survive total physical destruction, at the beginning of his time in Mahora.

Pactio:

Yet another form of magic Negi possesses is the ability to make “Pactio’s.”. Pactio’s are a contract between the Magister and another person, usually formed with a kiss(At lest according to Chamo, but there’s likely other ways that Negi does not know of.). This contract gives the contractee a card that is used to communicate across up to 10 kilometers via telepathy, or summon the other. In some cases, every in Negi’s, the card can turn into an artifact that can be summoned with the phrase “Adeat.” What the artifact is and it’s powers can vary and depends on the people involved in the contract. In addition to receiving a magic card, the contractee can be imbued with the magical powers from the Magister that made the contract, vastly increasing their power and abilities in nearly everything. Even weak mages can bestow a normal person with enough power to both shatter thick rocks with a single blow and durablity enough to get hit by a sword slash from a normal person with no damage. The Magister receives a copy of their partner’s card, but it cannot turn into an artifact if one is acquired, merely communicate or summon the other.

Flight:

Negi possesses the ability to fly. Most mages need special items to do this, such as staffs. but Negi has since learned how to fly perfectly fine without such items.

Touching Non-Corporeal entities:

Negi’s magic has also reached a scale that allows for esoteric and unconventional applications of magic that would seem impossible to normal mages, such as physically interacting with and harming bodies made of purely elements or spiritual entities, as if they were normal and solid beings no different from a regular person.

Spacetime Manipulation:

Negi has come to possess a degree of control over time and space with his magic. He can create pocket dimensions of moderate size(One of which he stores extra items in), and alter the flow of time somewhat in locations with focus. This effect on time ranges from moving about 3-4x faster or slower at present. He uses this to give himself more time to finish studying or business tasks, without worry of accelerated aging, due to his immortality.

This also extends to being able to disrupt spacetime and circumvent abilities that work by distorting space. To give one example, where someone warping space around them to send all enemy attacks away and be untouchable, Negi could counter with his own ability to distort space and bypass the power, enabling him to regularly touch them.

Astral Projection:

The ability to project the essence of oneself into another location or even different realm, such as the spiritual. Some mages can use this to fight with a projection of themselves, usually only with their magical abilities, as they are not physically “there”, they cannot physically interact with the world. Though this makes the projection hard to combat via conventional, it also makes it intensely vulnerable to even basic forms of anti-magic even from far below the power of the caster.

Teleportation:

Negi is capable of teleporting through 1 of 2 means. The first, is via shadows. He can sink into one as if it were water and move from place to place. The alternative, and more roundabout method, is to tear a rip in spacetime at 2 points with gravity magic, and connect them via magic. As Negi isn’t a master at gravity magic, and to save energy, the size of the tear is made on a microscopic scale. Normally, going through this would be impossible, but in his Lightning Form, Negi is a mass of charged particles he can freely control. By moving these rapidly through the tear and reassembling himself on the other side, he can effectively teleport. Coupled with his knowledge of spacetime magic, Negi is fully capable of moving transdimensionally.

Telepathy:

Though, most mages require a Pactio or an internal device in order to communicate telepathically over long distances, high class mages, such as Negi, can communicate over long distances via their own abilities.

Telekinesis:

While a lesser used ability, Negi does possess it. This is really never used offensively, and is largely just used for minor object manipulation and sometimes carrying a person.

Royal Magic:

An ancient and powerful type of magic that is said to be different from normal magic, it is a type of magic unique to Negi's bloodline. It is not explained what this really does, but it's been theorized this is what is responsible for Negi's absurd and rapid growth in power and ability to create and master spells in days to weeks when it normally takes others years, decades, or even centuries.

It is also likely what is responsible for Negi creating a soul for Chachamaru during his pactio with her and may be the magic The Lifemaker used to create an alternate world of magic. This type of magic may even provide Negi with outright and extremely powerful reality warping/creation. However he is not aware of how to consciously use it.

MAGIA EREBEA:

The power of darkness. However, this darkness is not what the “traditional” view of darkness is, the opposite of light. No, this darkness is the primordial “state” of what there was before the universe existed, a void of nothing, an all encompassing expanse of nothingness which consumes anything, even light. It is an extremely powerful and dangerous form of magic Negi learned and eventually mastered through a long and hard series of trials. The basis behind this magic is taking a spell and fusing it with ones soul, gaining incredible powers depending on the spell, such as turning into natural lightning itself. This magic was not designed for normal peoples use, if one were to try and use it. It would rapidly corrupt their soul and mind until they transformed into an evil demon or die. So strong is the corruption, that even divine healing magic of the highest order has virtually no effect on it.

Most cannot even use Magia Erebea in the first place and will explode violently upon trying. This is partially on account of the fact that even using it requires an acceptance of oneself, coming to terms with the entire emotional spectrum and acknowledging more than just there being the commonly conceived notions of light(”good”) and darkness(”evil”). Be they positive emotions like happiness, to the negatives and dark feelings of anger. To truly and completely reach acceptance of this is a difficult task for many and dying in the trial to obtain the magic before one achieves understanding would be easy. However, there is also the possibility that only those belonging to the bloodline are capable of utilizing it without exploding, as the only ones who have done so are Negi and a being personally transformed by his bloodline’s originator to further immortality experiments.

Negi managed to, despite being a human, a species not designed to use the magic, keep control of this magic for a very long time. Eventually the magic killed him, but he was "reborn" by Magia Erebea into an immortal being that can no longer be called human, making it a part of his very being. He only survived this due to his special heritage of being a descendant of the royal bloodline of Ostia. Any other person would have been killed or consumed by Magia Erebea. He possesses many powers with this type of magic.

(More on Magia Erebea near the bottom of here. I’m trying to keep certain parts of this bio SOMEWHAT abridged. Basically, it’s some very high tier stuff.)

Regeneration:

After being reborn, Negi gained massive regenerative abilities. Large gashes across his side being healed instantly, before even he can make a move. The utter peak of his regeneration is very quickly regenerating from being completely vaporized or even having his soul completely corrupted by demonic and evil elements. He can possibly even regenerate from his soul being destroyed.

Essentially, Negi’s regeneration is quick enough, that if one were to do something like cut off his arm or shoot him, the injury would completely heal barely after his arm started falling or the instant the bullet pierced him.

Immortality:

Another power bestowed on him is immortality. He became ageless after mastering Magia Erebea, he may age for a few more years but after that aging will stop completely and he will forever live on. His agelessness combined with immense regenerative abilities, means Negi is more or less unable to die outside of very select things or extremely powerful reality warping.

Notably, Negi’s immortality and regeneration still apply to their fullest extent, even without any magic in the area or having it completely sealed, making the child extremely hard to kill. Furthermore, the sheer scale of Negi’s immortality and magical resistance provide him a great resistance toward things which are typically anti-immortal. Anything up to complete existence erasure will not kill Negi, and even that is suspect, as someone with his level of immortality was stated that only a completely collapsing timeline could potentially kill them and may have been their only chance to die, when spells capable of destroying someone’s existence exist.

Energy Absorption:

This function has multiple uses. The most basic is to take a spell from the user and absorb it to gain special powers. This is dependent upon the nature of the spell absorbed, such as a wind/lightning spell, evoking the image of quickness, increasing the users reaction time, at the cost of defense. In the case of Negi's most used form, he absorbs the spell Thousand Thunderbolts, 1-2 times to achieve Raiten Taisou/Raiten Taisou II, turning him into natural lightning and letting him literally fight and(in the case of Raiten Taisou II) think/react at the speed of lightning.

The second function of this is to absorb an attack thrown at one by the enemy. Negi can then do a variety of things, such as combine the spells power with their own spell for a massive attack, throw the spell back at the enemy, or use it to briefly boost himself. Negi has even absorbed a spell of absolute zero with no difficulty. The function of absorbing an enemies spell was thought to be too impractical by the creator of Magia Erebea, Negi still made it work. However, it cannot be used without some slight setup time.

This ability can absorb virtually anything Negi is able to get his hands on, from kinetic, spiritual, ki, mana energy, or even someone’s soul. Though, the child is unlikely to ever do the last one, as it could potentially completely and utterly erase someone’s existence, given how Magia Erebea works with energy and concepts.

Enhancement:

Magia Erebea can also be used to enhance ones attributes, generally a boost in almost any physical stat. Spells can also be used in this variety, such as infusing ones punch with spells other then Sagitta Magica.

Intangibility:

Certain forms that Negi uses with Magia Erebea can transform him into an elemental being, rendering him intangible. His primary use of this are his Raiten Taisou/Lightning Form’s, which literally turn his body into a charged mass of particles, being the exact same thing as real lightning. This in effect makes almost anything phase right through Negi as if he’s air, while also being extremely dangerous to make physical contact with, given the dangerous properties of lightning.

Limited and Specific Conceptual Manipulation:

While somewhat minor, Magia Erebea does possess a degree of conceptual manipulation due to how it works with “darkness” and the merging of the concepts of spells. Even things of fundamentally incompatible concepts can be merged into a single, new concept, or even erased. It is for this reason that Negi can mix and match spells effects when it is normally impossible, due to the clashing concepts.

Limited Shapeshifting:

Before mastering Magia Erebea, losing control would involuntarily change Negi’s form into that of his demonic one. After attaining mastery, Negi is able to freely manipulate any or even his entire body to appear like that of his demonic form.

STAT SUMMARY:

Destructive Power: Using low end interpretations, ultracasual mountain to island level, upwards of several times higher with his strongest spells, certain spells can ignore durability. With magic sealed, around wall busting. Using mid end interpretations, country to continent destroying with magic, higher with Thousand Lightning Bolts. Using high end views, planet destroying with strongest spells | By the time he naturally ages to an adult, more or less on par with The Lifemaker in power. Using low end, easy country to continent destroying. Using mid end, planet destroying, Using high end views, Solar System level. Potentially far higher with some prep time. (The Lifemaker may have created some multidimensional/multi-timeline plane with Cosmo Entelecheia. Similarly, people like them can reach into higher dimensional spaces, possibly beyond even 4-D space)

Durability: Using low end, island level(Survived thousand thunderbolts and tearing earth from Fate, an attack of the same tier at Thousand Thunderbolts, at point blank, then a weakened version of it x3 after that, when it can cover part of a barrier larger than Mars.), higher with barriers. Regeneration makes him almost impossible to kill. Without magic, around wall level, though still has regeneration. Using mid end views, continental to planet devastating, using high end, large planet level. | By the time he naturally becomes an adult, at least continental using low ends, regeneration makes him near impossible to kill. Using mid ends, large planet level, using high ends, solar system+ level, potentially much higher(People he’s on par with and resisted black hole attacks and defended from higher dimensional attacks in 4-D space or greater.)

Speed: Using low ends, massively hypersonic combat reflxes, high hypersonic long distance speed. In Lightning Form, faster with at least at least mach 7647 long distance movement speed and reactions. Several dozen miles per hour movement speed and at least a few times faster than the human eye can see(Several hundredth's of a second or so) reaction time with his magic sealed, possibly up to hypersonic. Using upper end views, High end Relativistic/Near Speed of Light reactions and close combat speed, high hypersonic long distance speed. In Lightning form, very likely faster than light combat reflexes, at least mach 7647 long distance movement speed | Using low ends, massively hypersonic combat reflxes, high hypersonic long distance speed. In Lightning Form, much faster with at least at least mach 7647 long distance movement speed and reactions, likely MUCH higher(Blitzed two people who could formerly keep up with him like this, before they could even think). Using upper end views Light Speed close combat speed by the time he naturally reaches adulthood. Significantly Faster than Light in Lightning Form.

Range: Using low end views, tens of kilometers and interdimensional, human melee/weapon range with magic sealed. Using mid end views, several thousand to tens of thousand of kilometers. Using high end views planetary. | Using low end views, dozens to hundreds of kilometers, interdimensional, and likely higher dimensional(Past 4-D space). Using mid end views, possibly interplanetary. Using high end views, at least solar system wide and likely higher, possibly multiversal.

Lifting Strength: High millions to billions of tons at least, likely around mountain moving/lifting. With magic sealed, slightly superhuman. | Large Multi-Mountain by the time he naturally ages into an adult.

Striking Strength: Using low ends, likely around mountain to multi-mountain. Physical strikes should be comparable to higher end spells, but below top tier ones. Can amp strength with Magia Erebea. With magic sealed, around wall/boulder shattering levels. Using mid ends, country level, Using high ends, planetary | Using low ends by the time he’s an adult, at least island to country level. Using mid ends, planet level. Using high ends around solar system level.

Intelligence: Super Genius level. Has done things like graduate Oxford at the top of the class by age 9 and with the highest grades in over a decade, and designed(Not built) 50,000 kilometer tall space station/elevators by age 10, in less than a month at best. Masters things in hours that can take people several months to even years.

Stamina: VASTLY inhuman, should be able to fight for at least over half a day straight against someone of his power while having already gone through much fighting and high level magic usage. Can cast the highest level spells many times in one fight without tiring. Potentially FAR higher, as during a mental and spiritual trial, which he sustained real injuries on his body, he fought for 10 days without stopping. Mental and spiritual stamina is immensely beyond human levels and more or less divine, as the above feat directly impacted his soul and mind, including the strain of dying 70 times in a row. With magic sealed, physical stamina is around slightly superhuman | Future self withstood all the negative human emotions ever felt by 2085, totaling almost 120 billion people, constantly and without rest for over 20 years, on top of The Lifemaker trying to erode his will.

TLDR Version/Summary of Powers: Massively inhuman super speed, strength, durability, agility, and intelligence, extremely fast learner, insane mental and spiritual fortitude, conceptual based elemental magic, can create and strengthen magic barriers and fire various magic attacks, mostly wind and lightning based, intense magic resistance, has various versatile magic spells in the form of unchanted spells that can do almost anything minor he wishes ( including but not limited to things such as disarming, sleeping, basic healing of wounds, stamina-recovering, manipulation of objects, anti-hypnosis, illusions and phantasmagoria, memory sharing/erasing, presence concealment deflecting, love spells, binding fields, magic dispelling, sealing bottle, illusion breaking, timedelayed messages, and leaving impressions of himself on someone or something), can enhance some unchanted spells by chanting them anyway, telepathy, flight, can be move completely silently and with no side effects for indication of movement, can sense and track energy, can make thousands of clones made of lightning, can summon elemental spirits to fight for him, can create a magical ice element sword(Which, on contact, reduces the temperature to -25C, transmuting and vaporizing matter), made of lightning and intangible in Raiten Taisou forms, astral projection, able to absorb attacks and redirect the attack, add it to his own power for a brief boost, or combine it with other abilities, can turn his staff into a lightning halberd-

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-can form Pactios with people and loan them some of his power, also communicate with them telepathically from long distances and summon them, inhuman martial arts skill and mastery over multiple forms of combat, can sense and see ghosts when exorcists and shamans couldn’t, also has no trouble hitting people made of elements or intangibles like ghosts and spirits, resistant to transmutation, immortality, regeneration, can control bodily functions(Like slowing down blood flow to reduce how much blood is lost from a nasty injury for example.) in various ways, limited shapeshifting, capable of spiritual/soul destruction or damage and exorcism/sealing, can destroy dimensions, some spacetime manipulation, dimension creation, possible high scale reality warping/creating, limited and specific conceptual manipulation with Magia Erebea absorption. By the time he’s an older adult, everything is vastly stronger and assumed to know the overwhelming majority of magic to exist in Negima, if not nearly all, many other powers that can include things like higher dimensional interaction/awareness.

#Bio #AND HERE WE GO NEGI'S ENTIRE BIO COUNTING BACKGROUND SKILLS AND SPELL LIST IS NOW 4 PARTS #AND SOMEWHERE LIKE 35 TO 40K WORDS

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SOCIAL MEDIA: THE NEW FRONTIER OF COMMUNICATION

Part 2 of your Strategy: Engagement

Now that your program has Social Media pages set up and also you’ve succeeded in constructing a following, it is very important take the social media technique to the subsequent degree and concentrate on partaking with different business leaders and potential results in further encourage gross sales era. The program now has an excellent social media presence, but there is a have to analysis, build connections, and strengthen these connections by working towards engagement efforts. Grass Roots Advertising will assist you obtain success in Social Media engagement.

Richard Branson has this week talked of the importance of corporations partaking with their clients by way of social media, calling on all corporations to embrace the modifications caused by the rise of platforms akin to Twitter and Facebook in his common BusinessDay column.

Many corporations have been very cautious and sluggish to start out using social media, setting up all types of tips for their staff about what could possibly be stated and the way to use these channels. My staff and I jumped in shortly and began to experiment – through the years we’ve all the time pushed each other to be progressive and approachable, defined the Virgin Group founder.

We quickly discovered that these channels have been a tremendous device for reaching our clients and the general public. One of many first issues we learnt was that our new social media accounts gave us a real-time view of how we might improve. By means of clients feedback, we began studying about points with our services extra shortly than ever earlier than. In response, we set up techniques so that a customer who has a question or an issue can get a fast reply from our group.

Whether or not you’re launching a start-up or leading a longtime firm,you must begin establishing your social media presence when you havent already.

The strategy adopted by both Branson and the Virgin corporations has paid dividends, with over 2.four million individuals choosing to comply with @RichardBranson on Twitter, together with an extra 250,000 on Facebook and a couple of.9 million on Google+. As well as this over half one million verify Bransons often updated blog every month, offering an exclusive insight into the workings of Virgin.

Weve been utilizing our social media channels to spread the message that we’re simply as fascinated by making a difference as making a profit. I arrange my first entrepreneurial enterprise, a magazine referred to as Scholar, to protest towards the Vietnam Struggle, and in many ways, I exploit my social media accounts at this time for a similar objective – to comment on issues I feel strongly about, such as the pointless conflict on medicine and the merciless follow of shark finning. Many followers reply, donate or even volunteer.

Whether or not you’re launching a start-up or leading an established company, you need to begin establishing your social media presence in the event you havent already. The simplest strategy to begin is usually by establishing a help line, so that clients can ask questions about your services or products. Pay attention and reply thoughtfully, and youll be in your means.

To seek out out extra of Richard Branson’s ideas on social media, head over to BusinessDay.

Why Social Media Is So Essential for Your Enterprise in 2014 Social media networks have been a novelty 5 years ago, however at the moment their significance is not debated. Sure, businesses have undoubtedly realized the facility of social media and accepted that social media advertising needs to be part of their advertising and PR combine.

In Social Media Examiner’s 2013 End of Yr Report, entrepreneurs now place *very excessive value* on social media advertising:

– 86% of marketers said that social media is essential for their enterprise – 89% of entrepreneurs said that increased exposure was the number one advantage of social media advertising

These are the definitive benefits of social media advertising which might be listed:

– Increased exposure – Increased visitors – Developed loyal fans – Generated leads – Improved search ranking – Grew business partnerships – Decreased advertising bills – Improved sales – Offered market insight

Social Media is the Recreation Changer *It’s apparent that social media will continue to have a big influence in 2014 on marketers and enterprise house owners: They now have the power to succeed in out and talk on a private degree with their audience each day. This can be a recreation changer for companies partaking in advertising, sales, customer support and different enterprise actions.That is very highly effective and has by no means been out there with conventional advertising!*

The success gap is widening between companies which might be utilizing social media in an off-the-cuff, advert hoc manner and those taking a extra deliberate, strategic strategy.

This has vital implications:

– Businesses that use social media strategically are more glad with the results than advert hoc customers, who’re more skeptical concerning the worth of social media. – Companies that use social media as a part of a deliberate corporate strategy are 1.5 to 2 occasions extra more likely to anticipate revenue progress than advert hoc users.

A lot has changed during the last yr in social media, and it will continue to vary in 2014. Listed here are my Greatest Ideas for Successful Social Media and Digital Advertising in 2014.

Some Powerful Stats and Info from 2013

– Social is now the top Web activity: http://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-engagement-statistics-2013-12 People spend a mean of 37 minutes day by day on social media, a better time-spend than another main Internet exercise, together with e mail.

– Take a look at this infographic from Digital Insights on social media information, figures and statistics from 2013.

– *Fb* continues to be the leading social media network and continues to grow. Listed here are the newest details and figures : – Facebook now has 1.26 billion customers – Facebook averages 1.23 billion monthly lively customers – There are 128 million every day lively Fb users in the US – Facebook averages 945 million monthly lively cellular users – Facebook usage is highest in North America: Facebook has 59% of all Web users in North America as lively users. Google+ solely achieves 15% and Twitter 25%.

– Google+ is now the second largest social community *at just over 50%*, with Fb still dominating at 70%. Understand that a Google+ account is obligatory each time a person creates a brand new Gmail account. This is pushing up the account ownership stats. But no other social community has Google’s net belongings leverage. *Read more on how necessary Google+ is for Your Business and the way it has a serious influence on search engine outcomes on your biz.

– YouTube is extra widespread than cable tv: YouTube reaches more adults than any cable network. In the USA, the number of people who watch television has fallen behind the number of people that watch YouTube regularly. This makes it clear that televised content is undergoing a decline, on-line consumption of video is on the incline. Many corporations have taken benefit of this by releasing their advertisements or advertising campaigns on YouTube first earlier than they debut on TV. Take most of the 2014 Tremendous Bowl XLVIII advertisements (like Budweiser) that have been released on YouTube earlier than the large recreation and have been rewarded with triple YouTube views.

– LinkedIn continues to be the most important professional business community and continues to develop but not at the pace of Pinterest,Google+ or Twitter. Listed here are some numbers from Visible.ly.

– Pinterest is the quickest rising social community right now. The visible net is driving the rise of Pinterest and Tumblr with progress rates of 88% and 74% respectively during the last 12 months. Pinterest can also be one of many leading referral sources for natural visitors, which is an effective for top search rankings.

– Some social media networks have a more lively user-base than others. Statistical analysis has revealed that greater than 95% of Facebook customers log into their account each day. That quantity for Twitter is 60% and for LinkedIn is 30%.

– Take a look at this handy info on demographics of key social networking platforms from Pew Web Social Media Replace 2013.

What are 2 key elements driving the social net in 2013 and 2014?

In accordance with the International Net Index research it is:

1. Cellular – the number of individuals accessing the Web by way of a mobile phone increased by 60.three% to 818.4 million in the last 2 years. Within the USA, there at the moment are 101 million day by day cellular customers. Facebook’s 101 million US day by day cellular users make up a whopping 78% of its 128 milliondaily US users. 2. Older consumer adoption – On Twitter the 55-64 yr age bracket is the fastest rising demographic with 79% progress price since 2012. The quickest growing demographic on Fb’s and Google+’s networks are the 45 to 54 yr age bracket at 46% and 56% respectively. So perhaps that’s the rationale your mother and father and grandparents aren’t visiting that a lot anymore — they’re too busy on Fb and Twitter!

The highest challenges companies have in using social media are:

– Lack of time – Lack of ability to measure value – Problem integrating social media with different business actions – Lack of price range

I absolutely agree with this, and listen to it first hand from lots of my shoppers. However these challenges could be overcome, if social media is deliberate and finished strategically!

Social Media Channels – Which One to Choose??

Business house owners ought to take note of which social platforms assist them reach their objectives with related audiences, whether or not that’s producing sales or higher visibility. Part of my job helps business house owners determine which networks are greatest for his or her enterprise. Learn my blog on “Which Social Media Channels Should I Use For My Business?”

Listed here are the preferred ones: – Facebook – Twitter – YouTube – LinkedIn – Google+ – Pinterest – Instagram – StumbleUpon – Digg social bookmarking – Slideshare presentation sharing And naturally, running a blog is vital! Listed here are some tricks to producing nice online content material to feed your social media networks!

Combine!

Social media just isn’t an end unto itself. It MUST be *integrated* *and work hand-in-hand* with all your other advertising and PR initiatives which ought to be *continued* to succeed in all your advertising contact points and your final success. These can embrace:

– E-mail Advertising and rising your e mail record – Search engine marketing – Event advertising (speaking and networking) – Direct Mail – On-line advertisements (Google Adwords) – Print show advertisements – Sponsorships – Cellular Advertising – Radio/TV Advertisements

Sharing is Caring!

I know this sounds primary, however ensure that your website, blog and e-mail publication embrace social “share” buttons for individuals to *simply share your content material on ALL their social networks.*

Add your social community hyperlinks on your e mail signature.

Learn my blog on Make Your On-line Content material Sharable! Greatest Plugins & Widgets (Free)

So, What Will Social Media Do For Your Enterprise?

Making social media a precedence for your enterprise will permit your corporation to:

– Be found! – Set up a stronger model – Increase gross sales – Share experience and information – Tap into the knowledge of consumers – Interact and receive beneficial buyer suggestions – Free advertising: glad clients speak about your organization, that is the strongest word-of-mouth-marketing – Construct a group

Why is Social Media Essential?

Social media undoubtedly must be a part of your advertising combine in 2014!* Increasingly, fashionable icons for the highest social media sites are displaying up beneath such requirements as the search website box. And Facebook widgets are ever more widespread that assist you to turn out to be a fan of a brand or business immediately out of your website. Out of the blue, everyone is speaking about social advertising. Is it a fad? Is it hype? Is it well worth the hassle? I’m going to inform you proper now why it IS necessary and why what you are promoting might rely upon getting it right. See also: Incredible Fan Pages Why is social media necessary?

With almost 400 Million *lively* users, Fb is now the dimensions of the nation of Germany, and adding over 1/2 Million new users per day! Twitter isn’t as massive however can also be rising fast. The exceptional progress of these online giants finally displays our compelling want to attach with each other round widespread interests. AND it presents an entire new paradigm for speaking and promoting on-line.

The previous distinctions of B to B and B to Shoppers usually are not as significant anymore as everybody from the janitor on as much as the CEO is on Facebook, swapping news and tales with pals. Finally, individuals don’t buy from corporations, they purchase from individuals and social media can put a extra informal, hip and personal face on an otherwise impersonal firm.

As profitable on-line marketers comparable to Frank Kern and Jeff Walker have discovered and confirmed with testing, people hate to be bought to, but they love to buy from a trusted pal or advisor. I might add that they particularly hate to be bought to by a huge, faceless, impersonal corporation, who doesn’t understand them or give a hoot about them. However give them true worth without spending a dime by way of social media and other forms of direct communication, building both belief AND want, and they’ll LOVE to buy from you.

The True Value of Social Media

This is the true worth of social media on your on-line presence. In an era of larger transparency and authenticity, social media is quickly delivering a new commonplace of interacting more person to person, even if it’s just one individual in your company who’s chosen to be the lively “face” in that realm. For those who replace a blog often, you possibly can auto update each Fb and Twitter out of your blog posts, so it doen’t need to take a bunch of time. Don Crowther, social media guru, says a highly effective social media technique can take just 20 minutes a day. *NOTE*: And you can’t, should not promote immediately or blatantly spam your follows, or they’ll unfollow you shortly.

Getting began and doing it right does take some work, especially to standardize your model across the large 3 social media websites – your face or brand must be constant on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube and each website requires a bit of customization to realize this.

Additionally, Facebook especially can do all types of cool tips with a custom landing page for non-fans together with your e-mail opt-in type embedded.

Rising Importance of Social Media Advertising Corporations

Social networking sites have develop into the foremost advertising platforms for both small and enormous businesses. Via social advertising, quite a few small and enormous enterprise house owners have been capable of amplify their sale volumes and preserve worthwhile clients. Presence on social networking sites akin to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is considered obligatory lately. By focusing on operating your small business, it’s turning into most crucial to appoint social advertising campaigns to the appropriate social media advertising firm. There are a number of issues you have to know before you interact the service of any firm.

Firm involved

A easy search on the net will give strategy to many social media advertising corporations. Choosing an area reputed firm may be measured as your prime precedence. You could be acquainted with some company and chances are you’ll interact the service of that company. Social media advertising has now turn into a proficient service offered by some particular person freelancers too. There are loads of particular person social advertising professionals looking out for company house owners planning to promote on social networking websites.

Fame of the Firm

Many social advertising corporations and freelancer professionals supply indisputable providers. Be cautious, there are some uncertain corporations promoting their providers on-line however not offering the dedicated providers. These corporations and some freelancer people safe pretend social media advertising jobs and then supply the identical as advertising service. You must interact a company which focuses on providing social advertising as a factual service. Providers Provided

Selecting a social media advertising company to oversee your corporation promotion on social media sites isn’t binding on the rights to an organization. It is your promotion and also you reimburse for the service. You might have obligatory rights regarding to those providers. An organization engaged by you should give you all of the important info referring to your social advertising operation.

Advertising campaign

All social media advertising corporations can never present the same class of service. Some corporations will never inform that how your advertising campaign is giving efficiency on social media sites. Knowledgeable company should all the time present the important info in regards to the presentation of your marketing campaign on an ordinary foundation. This info ought to be in form of common and up to date stories. You have to be proficient to get in contact with the corporate engaged by you at any time.

Value Issue

Most social media advertising corporations quote in their very own method for their providers. Knowledgeable firm won’t provide with a standard quote. Akin to a company will evaluate your inimitable advertising need and modify a tailor-made advertising plan. On the plan itself it ought to be capable of make obtainable a quote.

Utilize A number of Platforms

A variety of enterprise worth is created on the presence on manifold social media platforms. Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest have established monitor data of serving many businesses rise high. A social media advertising firm ought to have the ability to perceive that totally different platforms assist you to connect with all forms of viewers. Many companies get beleaguered by the contemplation of operating a number of social media accounts. A superb social media advertising firm can make it easier to connect with viewers and monitor all of the document.

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SOCIAL MEDIA: THE NEW FRONTIER OF COMMUNICATION

Part 2 of your Strategy: Engagement

Whether or not you’re launching a start-up or leading a longtime firm,you must begin establishing your social media presence when you havent already.

To seek out out extra of Richard Branson’s ideas on social media, head over to BusinessDay.

In Social Media Examiner’s 2013 End of Yr Report, entrepreneurs now place *very excessive value* on social media advertising:

– 86% of marketers said that social media is essential for their enterprise – 89% of entrepreneurs said that increased exposure was the number one advantage of social media advertising

These are the definitive benefits of social media advertising which might be listed:

The success gap is widening between companies which might be utilizing social media in an off-the-cuff, advert hoc manner and those taking a extra deliberate, strategic strategy.

This has vital implications:

A lot has changed during the last yr in social media, and it will continue to vary in 2014. Listed here are my Greatest Ideas for Successful Social Media and Digital Advertising in 2014.

Some Powerful Stats and Info from 2013

– Take a look at this infographic from Digital Insights on social media information, figures and statistics from 2013.

– Take a look at this handy info on demographics of key social networking platforms from Pew Web Social Media Replace 2013.

What are 2 key elements driving the social net in 2013 and 2014?

In accordance with the International Net Index research it is:

The highest challenges companies have in using social media are:

– Lack of time – Lack of ability to measure value – Problem integrating social media with different business actions – Lack of price range

I absolutely agree with this, and listen to it first hand from lots of my shoppers. However these challenges could be overcome, if social media is deliberate and finished strategically!

Social Media Channels – Which One to Choose??

Combine!

Sharing is Caring!

Add your social community hyperlinks on your e mail signature.

Learn my blog on Make Your On-line Content material Sharable! Greatest Plugins & Widgets (Free)

So, What Will Social Media Do For Your Enterprise?

Making social media a precedence for your enterprise will permit your corporation to:

Why is Social Media Essential?

The True Value of Social Media

Additionally, Facebook especially can do all types of cool tips with a custom landing page for non-fans together with your e-mail opt-in type embedded.

Rising Importance of Social Media Advertising Corporations

Firm involved

Fame of the Firm

Advertising campaign

Value Issue

Utilize A number of Platforms

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#Blog #SMM

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SOCIAL MEDIA: THE NEW FRONTIER OF COMMUNICATION

Part 2 of your Strategy: Engagement

Whether or not you’re launching a start-up or leading a longtime firm,you must begin establishing your social media presence when you havent already.

To seek out out extra of Richard Branson’s ideas on social media, head over to BusinessDay.

In Social Media Examiner’s 2013 End of Yr Report, entrepreneurs now place *very excessive value* on social media advertising:

– 86% of marketers said that social media is essential for their enterprise – 89% of entrepreneurs said that increased exposure was the number one advantage of social media advertising

These are the definitive benefits of social media advertising which might be listed:

The success gap is widening between companies which might be utilizing social media in an off-the-cuff, advert hoc manner and those taking a extra deliberate, strategic strategy.

This has vital implications:

A lot has changed during the last yr in social media, and it will continue to vary in 2014. Listed here are my Greatest Ideas for Successful Social Media and Digital Advertising in 2014.

Some Powerful Stats and Info from 2013

– Take a look at this infographic from Digital Insights on social media information, figures and statistics from 2013.

– Take a look at this handy info on demographics of key social networking platforms from Pew Web Social Media Replace 2013.

What are 2 key elements driving the social net in 2013 and 2014?

In accordance with the International Net Index research it is:

The highest challenges companies have in using social media are:

– Lack of time – Lack of ability to measure value – Problem integrating social media with different business actions – Lack of price range

I absolutely agree with this, and listen to it first hand from lots of my shoppers. However these challenges could be overcome, if social media is deliberate and finished strategically!

Social Media Channels – Which One to Choose??

Combine!

Sharing is Caring!

Add your social community hyperlinks on your e mail signature.

Learn my blog on Make Your On-line Content material Sharable! Greatest Plugins & Widgets (Free)

So, What Will Social Media Do For Your Enterprise?

Making social media a precedence for your enterprise will permit your corporation to:

Why is Social Media Essential?

The True Value of Social Media

Additionally, Facebook especially can do all types of cool tips with a custom landing page for non-fans together with your e-mail opt-in type embedded.

Rising Importance of Social Media Advertising Corporations

Firm involved

Fame of the Firm

Advertising campaign

Value Issue

Utilize A number of Platforms

The post SOCIAL MEDIA: THE NEW FRONTIER OF COMMUNICATION appeared first on Black Dot Mobile.

#Blog #SMM

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SOCIAL MEDIA: THE NEW FRONTIER OF COMMUNICATION

Part 2 of your Strategy: Engagement

Whether or not you’re launching a start-up or leading a longtime firm,you must begin establishing your social media presence when you havent already.

To seek out out extra of Richard Branson’s ideas on social media, head over to BusinessDay.

In Social Media Examiner’s 2013 End of Yr Report, entrepreneurs now place *very excessive value* on social media advertising:

– 86% of marketers said that social media is essential for their enterprise – 89% of entrepreneurs said that increased exposure was the number one advantage of social media advertising

These are the definitive benefits of social media advertising which might be listed:

The success gap is widening between companies which might be utilizing social media in an off-the-cuff, advert hoc manner and those taking a extra deliberate, strategic strategy.

This has vital implications:

A lot has changed during the last yr in social media, and it will continue to vary in 2014. Listed here are my Greatest Ideas for Successful Social Media and Digital Advertising in 2014.

Some Powerful Stats and Info from 2013

– Take a look at this infographic from Digital Insights on social media information, figures and statistics from 2013.

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Reddit Vinyl: The Land of Dad Rock Records, Vinyl Tourists, and Downvote Teens

At Reddit Vinyl it's always harder to find the guy who isn't Waldo.

Related to Elements: Cratedigging

Pertinent confession: I am a music forum whore. I spend a little too much otherwise valuable work time at various record related, crate digging, and Hip Hop focused forums residing all over the globe. For many years I've made my daily rounds between the forums, blogs, and news feeds relentlessly satiating my music information void.

Sometime along the way it became obvious that every music forum has it's own distinct qualities, quirks and 'personalities' as unique as the individual members who dwell there. In a way, these online communities I routinely visit each represent a contradistinctive slice of the overall worldwide music scene. Usually I am on the prowl for these fresh sources of music information, actively seeking them out, but once in a while the forum finds me. That was the case with Reddit Vinyl when a user linked to my DIY Record Storage Shelves. It blew up my visitor stats for that week, and like a red cape in front of a bull it grabbed my attention.

As always, curiosity killed this cat because I couldn't ignore those numbers. Upon discovering the information was deemed helpful to a handful of fellow record aficionados, I joined the seemingly massive community hoping to build with and grow from other like-minded vinyl addicts.

Subsequently this was my first Reddit post ever. With that first post I contributed one way I knew how to contribute, hoping to get a little in return. Ultimately, that's what these forums are all about. You get in what you put in. Well, if only I knew then what I know now.

Reddit Vinyl, the Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Before we get into the bad and the ugly, I'll start with the good. After all, there's got to be some reason to visit the forum, much less blog about it. Well, for starters, besides the sheer massive number of members, and consequently threads and comments, a huge quantity of record related news and updates rolls through there starting on page one. Don't like what's on page one right now? Just wait a few hours and it'll be filled up with new threads and record related links. Some of the news on page one can actually be relevant and fresh when it's not over-posted by those too lazy to use the search button to see if the news has already made it's rounds.

So digging for quality content at r/vinyl is a lot like digging for good records. Imagine crate digging in a football field sized record store for just a few good records. Obviously you'd have to flip past a million crap records to get to the ones you care about. Likewise with r/vinyl, before you find the newsworthy andor valuable information, you gotta flip past a million and one pointless newb posts, like comic strip posts of Charlie Brown being proud of his collection, kids closely relating to Joseph Roundtree's confusion with vinyl, the collective teenagers' giddiness with lego turntables, a myriad of "My Goodwill hauls!" clone threads, "I built my first IKEA! Fellow clones look and drool!" and "Help me find a turntable for under 200 bucks!" Now imagine infinite variants of these threads from wannabe record collectors who correctly assume that r/vinyl is the place to find experts of cheap crappy used decks. As long as you don't mind digging past this unstoppable flood of madness there's some real data there. Throughout this minute by minute torrent of repetitive fluff, the mods frankly do their best to deal with the impotence. They constantly point to their "sidebar rules" that exist to deter the flow of "hold my hand and walk me thru buying crap turntables that don't suck" threads. Another of these ignored and unarguably ineffective rules supposedly bans photos of collections containing no descriptions or effort whatsoever. Yet every day a pic of nothing more than dollar bin records lying on the carpet next to the owner's photo-bombing, nasty-ass bare feet at the bottom of the frame are posted. The moderators do try, but the downpour of newb dumbassery is just way too much to quell as they are so vastly outnumbered. Regardless, for their underpaid selfless effort to maintain some sense of relevance there and their attempts to purge the flow of one-percenters' half-assed posts, they do deserve credit. Likewise for the relevant threads that eventually linger on page one, r/vinyl deserves credit for being that source of information. Not to mention, although stifled and disenfranchised by the overwhelming masses of vinyl tourists asking uncreative questions, there is still a fair amount of members who truly know their shit. This small minority of intelligent cats are genuinely good people, knowledgeable about turntables and certain records and genres. They bring insightful answers, good banter, and somehow maintain a little bit of grace and sanity in the face of staggering flamboyant ignorance.

The Bad and the Ugly = Downvote Teens

Shortly after my first post it became painfully obvious that the forum had a massive number of members. Unfortunately their quantity wasn't the solution, it was the problem. Vinyl is trending right now and record sales have skyrocketed the past few years and somehow almost all of these new-to-vinyl collectors decided to start at r/vinyl. By my estimation, approximately 90 percent of the members in r/vinyl are basically mystified newbs andor vinyl tourists who are, according to their own words, "curious about vinyl".

It's actually worse than that. Not only are the bulk of members simply clueless people, but they are the worst kind of people, actual teenagers who think at one year of hand-me down records from Grandma's attic and one Daft Punk record gives them the expertise to advice the legions of incoming eager to learn impressionable trainees who are just coming out of lurking. Like Lord of the Flies online, these self appointed child experts add confusion to the chaos by mass downvoting otherwise good advice if it even remotely contradicts their narrow minded blurted-out comments and assumptions.

The Numbers Don't Lie

r/vinyl's own member age poll conducted by their moderators indicates a lopsided percentage of teen angst.

Poll Source

Need More Proof?

Now, if this Reddit supplied polling data isn't enough to convince you of the hoards of dysfunctional teenyboppers there, then this following link should be all the additional proof you need...

Thread Titled: People who've spent triple digits on a single record, what was it and why?

The most upvoted response was this...

"Taylor Swift - RED. Limited ACM Awards edition. Bought it for $250 excl. shipping. Bought it because I just love that album. Not that I'm going to play it though." - maxim380

As of today, 90 people upvoted this human being's response making it the most popular answer by a landslide.

Furthermore, the member added...

"I don't play it because I don't want to risk scratching it or damaging it in some other way. I know that the chance of that happening is really small, but I just don't want to take the risk." - maxim380

Adding insult to injury, this comment also was upvoted incessantly because the resident vinyl tourists find it perfectly normal to buy a record just to have it for bragging rights or display purposes.

And hey, what better artist to brag about spending 250 dollars on than that tinsel town concocted teen idol who produces cheerleader anthems, Taylor Swift? It's inevitable that all of her future ex-fans will outgrew their training bras, and on that day they'll figure out how God-awful this pixie rockstar's so-called country music is. Except for dumb ass teenaged disciples with Taylor Swift pajamas, it is universally understood that she embodies everything that is tawdry and petty with the music industry. Apparently, as America's elvish red-carpet sweetheart, the moment that wretched voice comes out the speakers crooning about her whoring around in her own narcissistic world, we're supposed to be able to relate. Even the twiggy twit herself knows that only teenagers can subscribe to her corny, mellowdramatic lyrics. She's understands that it's because of these moldable juveniles that she's set for life. Well, for whatever reason this collective of Swift putty found it's permanent residence at Reddit Vinyl.

This overpopulation of perplexed newbs and downvote teens are the proverbial "bad and the ugly". They are the true elephant in the room and they are directly responsible for r/vinyl ultimately being a pathetic joke of a vinyl record collectors forum. Because of this paralyzing flood of them rearing their trend-jumping heads every hour, Reddit vinyl will never reach it's potential to become a serious online resource. Because of the downvote teens, it will always be the land of vinyl newbs.

What Exactly Are Downvote Teens?

One unique to Reddit trait that could be a powerful feature when properly utilized is the up and down vote option on every post. Be that as it may, at Reddit Vinyl that just means every single word out of your mouth is a high school popularity contest. Effectively, every kid there will do whatever it takes to sit at the r/vinyl cool kids' lunch table.

Ironically, they call this "karma" but it has absolutely nothing to do with karma at all. They know in order to fast-track their way to this proverbial table they should rush to be the first to reply to the forum's posts with the most cynical responses, obvious solutions, blatant ass-kissing, andor any popularly held beliefs regardless of their statement being correct or relevant.

Not quick enough to get there first? Ok, how about a gif animation of a kitty cat spinning on a turntable as your response to a topic? Useless fluff guarantees karma points. The more pandering to this lowest common denominator, the more karma points you "earn". While these points are basically as valuable as pretend money, to the downvote teens, accumulating them is the same as offering up your Fruit Roll-Ups to the homecoming king.

The quintessential example of a downvote teen's user profile

While fluff and fruitless remarks get awarded with upvotes by the mindless masses, almost everything else is downvoted by the downvote teens. Comments which are accurate and helpful responses are often ignored and hover at neutral. At least they are upvoted by lingering well-informed members attempting to offset the multitude of snot-nosed brats who are pressing down arrow because they are "annoyed" with the confident "tone" of the factual contribution. Therefore comments like "I'm pretty sure you're right, but you don't have to sound like such an asshole!" get upvoted by the same dysfunctional teens downvoting the dead-on response.

Likewise, it's no surprise that name-calling and insults to purveyors of unpopular opinions get upvotes while actual healthy debate and respectful disagreements and discussion are treated with indifference.

Behold the March of the Downvote Lemmings

Moreover, once a comment is downvoted to reach a negative number, or even zero, like clockwork, the mob mentality kicks in. These powerless teenagers often don't read the comment being downvoted, (everything is TLDR) nor do they care as to why it's being downvoted. It's simply an instantaneous knee-jerk response for them to click down arrow because they instinctually mimic their own kind. For these helpless drones "monkey see, monkey do" is their standard because individual thought is just too hard.

Lemmings are too dense to contribute to the topic so instead they lurk and blindly follow the downvoters.

Why Do Downvote Teens Downvote?

Since teens have no real control over their lives, they overcompensate by retreating into the Reddit virtual world where the downvote serves as their wooden sword. Consumed by misplaced angst, sexual frustration, and petty beefs, they are completely oblivious to their own awkwardness, so they take comfort in religiously pushing the down arrow. These twerps easily fool themselves into thinking that will be their expression of power. Like an old man with a penis car, a downvote teen burns rubber at Reddit vinyl.

Meanwhile, outside Reddit vinyl in the real world, their mothers are fucking pissed at them for not putting their clothes in the hamper and jizzing all over their socks balled up under their beds. She's ready to drop their allowance to 20 bucks a week for not watering the cat and making their beds, but sadly she won't do it because she's so drained from the constant battle. Instead she'll limit their video game privileges to a mere 4 hours a day effectively enabling the teen to continue down the same fruitless path.

Downvote teens will always upvote Crap Stevens, crap disco and all dad rock

What Do Downvote Teens Upvote? (Like)

Believe it or not, they downvote pretty much everything, but downvote teens do upvote a few types of threads and comments. The following types of threads constantly stay on page one due to the DVTs upvoting them...

Anything Beatles Related, Especially the Butcher Cover

Anything pertaining to Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, or the Doors Records

Any kind of dad rock picture posts

Any kind of records inherited from parents or grandparents picture posts

Any kind of "my humble setup threads" as long as the word humble or "small" is used

Dorm Room Setup Pic Topics

Any Thread from 15 or 16 year old teens announcing their age in the title

Anything IKEA related because they are proud they can erect it for their 4 records

Anything negative about Crosley Record Players

MF Doom and Nas Records but no other Hip Hop

Goodwill Record Haul Posts

RSD Haul Posts and, ironically, RSD Sucks Posts

Thrift Sale or Garage Sale Haul Pic Posts

Posts about Records purchased Best Buy or Hot Topic

Any cartoons that contain a record player in them

Tiny turntables built out of legos

Any picture that contains a cat

Any thread that starts with "HELP!!!"

Any Daft Punk topic

Any rock band that is named after an animal

Every rock band that is getting the daily reddit circle jerk

Comments from people who say "Get that turntable off your receiver!"

"Vintage" players even if they are broken and are as big as a chest freezer

Colored Vinyl Records

People who display their records on the wall even if they don't have a turntable

Threads with "My Grail" or "My White Whale" in it despite it being a common record

Responses that are gif links

Anyone who yells at someone "Pretentious!" "Elitist!" "Prick" or "Asshole" especially in any combination of these words

People who bitch about record sellers

What Do Downvote Teens Downvote? (Dislike)

Crosley Brand Record Players unless it has a Peanuts Cartoon on it. However most of them had a Crosley on day one of joining r/vinyl.

Flippers, aka all sellers who make a few extra bucks on post RSD resales. They want stores to stay in business they just don't want sellers to make money.

Record players that don't come with a dust cover (must kill dust!)

Record players that don't come with a cue lever (too clutzy to hand cue a record)

DJs since they ruin records.

People who scratch or even touch the grooves (Q-bert is satan to them)

Any kind of negative opinion about any music will be mass downvoted (With opinion, only positive comments are tolerated especially when it comes to the Beatles and Taylor Swift)

People who say "Vinyls" (Which obviously it isn't a word, but they are extremely passionate about disliking that word)

People who correct people who say "vinyls". (They want people to know without being told)

People who don't follow the "side bar" rules

People who tell people to follow the "side bar" rules

Picture discs (although displaying them is fine, enjoying the music on them is unacceptable.)

Threads with individual music taste which isn't their own

Record Store owners that put price tags on records

Anything related to actual crate digging

Lastly, they hate me for saying this. So much so that they created this thread.

Daily Downvote Dumbassery: What Do Downvote Teens Claim To Understand But Can't Grasp?

Stacking your records vertically will immediately warp your records. (While it's true that doing so in huge stacks for many months may warp some records this belief is highly exaggerated.)

Getting water on your record label will ruin it. (During the manufacturing process the label is literally melted into the record, it can be submerged and it will still be fine.)

All Crosleys suck and having one will ruin every record it touches. (While most are low end or starter players they aren't going to destroy your records in any normal amount of play time. Record player manufacturers know you gotta have the BMWs and Yugos and everything in between.)

Using the cue lever is essential or you'll break the needle andor scratch your records. (Actually, for them this is true. Certainly if they are too afraid to learn how to hand cue records they'll never be coordinated enough to cue records quickly and efficiently like your average human being does with their hands.)

The dust cover is the most important part on a turntable. (Some of these dolts actually play records under the plastic cover because they are afraid of the dust that will accumulate during one rotation will ruin the record. Doing this is not only impractical and stupid looking, but it actually generates more static electricity and can potentially make the record sound tinny with the big plastic shell reverberating in play.)

What "holy grail" records are. (They equate "expensive" and "I have to have it" to it being a holy grail, oblivious to the rarity factor and how much something is sought. Meanwhile in reality, "grails" are just like the real holy grail artifact, thus the reference. Every one wants to touch it and no one knows where one is that can be obtained. Often they add the word "My" to the title proving that they truly don't get it. "I found my holy grail!" Boobs who say shit like that need to stop grailing everything they want, because it's making that word completely meaningless.)

What to buy (Sometimes they literally ask the entire forum what record they should buy because they have no personal taste. All they know about what rock to buy they learned from what r/vinyl circle jerked numerous times. Or they heard about it from their parents first. They might hate their parents but for some reason they love their parents' hand me down crap records. Any kind of unknown record is worthless to them unless it was featured on numerous cloned Reddit threads featuring that currently trending band.)

Common Downvote Teen Traits

Typical Downvote Teen Setup Pics... In no particular order...

Setup 1 (This couldn't be any more perfect of an example)

Setup 2 (Blurry cell phone pic, empty IKEA, and toys)

Setup 3 (Shit on the floor, deck on amp, lined up in front of a damn radiator)

Setup 4 (Let's try really hard to not impress anyone)

A Downvote Teen's DIY Record Wall Display (Oh, here's a surprise, it's Daft Punk)

Uh Oh! Banned from Reddit Vinyl

Ever been fired from the worst job you ever had in your life? That basically sums up the emotion I had when I was banned without warning not long ago. My last post was a comment on a punk band I had respect for and shortly after posting that I got a anonymous message with no explanation saying I could no longer post at r/vinyl.

Why this happened, I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it had something to do with me voicing my opinions on Taylor Swift two comments prior to that and clearly that really pissed off a lot of people. That wasn't the first time I dissed that woman, nor was it the first time I openly expressed my fatigue from all the rehashed monotony and predictable 1% effort newb clones . I'm guessing airing those grievances was deemed "trolling" by one or more of the mods and dropping the ban hammer was determined to be the most efficient way to protect the glass houses. I understood that very day that it was in fact better for everyone, especially myself that the band-aid was effectively ripped off. The entire time I was actively posting there, digging through their proverbial information crates, I was constantly flipping past way too many beat up Elvis and Beatles records in there to get to the relevant content. I spent way too much time trying to rinse the hair off the bar of soap knowing full well that I was in a yeti's shower.

Keep in mind, I've never been banned from anything in my life, and in this one case, being told I don't belong there was nothing more than a subtle compliment. I should add that it is a known fact that ANY serious record collector who has been buying records for at least 2 years will find the frustration of the daily flood of downvote teen dumbassery trumps everything. Bottom line, as a forum member, unless you are "curious about possibly starting to collect vinyl," or "new to vinyl" or "16 and look what you bought with your allowance!" you won't get out what you put in at Reddit vinyl.

That's right kids, if your Ipod Touch isn't cutting it any more, even after the Beats by Dre earbuds birthday present upgrade, and you've resorted to dusting off the hand-me-down dad-rock records in the basement, r/vinyl will gladly welcome you to your new home where you'll be accompanied by thousands of like-minded, equally clueless but passionate newb clones.

On the opposite hand, If you really wanna learn something about digging records, Reddit does have a cratedigging subreddit, but it's clearly much smaller. I haven't been there so I can't comment on it.

Obviously, outside of the mega-forums of Reddit there are many valuable online communities to enrich your record collecting knowledge and experiences, many with contributing members who want to make connections as much as you do. Cratedigging forums like the Cratedigging Cooperative, DWG forums, The Record Collectors Guild, and the Vinyl Collective Forum, to name just a few, all have active members of varying age groups and experience levels who are looking for the same mutually beneficial cultivation of music understanding that you desire. Best of all, you'll find it all without any of the predictable prepubescent absurdity of the downvote teens.

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