Recently I've seen a whole tonne of negativity floating around the blogging community on twitter and I just wanted to take a minute out of my usual posts to talk about it. I've had my blog for around three and a half years now and in the past year or so the amount of negativity I see on a daily basis has massively increased. When I first got started blogging wasn't small however it was definitely a hell of a lot smaller than it is now. When I first got involved in the blogging community Zoella had well under a million followers and I'd never seen a youtuber bring out a product with a big mainstream brand (I'm talking Two faced, Tarte, Becca etc here) No one had books and no one had product ranges.
Now don't get me wrong I'm not saying these things are bad things at all. The community is changing and bloggers and youtubers are getting the recognition for all the hard work that they put in. But along with the growth of the social media influencers comes the people who hate on others. However recently I've begun to see bloggers turning on other bloggers, follower numbers become irrelevant here as at the end of the day it's just one person picking on another. I'm not saying that everyone has to get along, in a community that is now as big as the blogging community is today there are going to be people who's personalities clash and people that don't like what other people do.
I feel like the community has become one big competition it's now all about blog followers and page views and how many PR packages a certain blogger gets sent every week. A community that was once so supportive and so kind has now been tainted by jealousy and bitterness. I mean don't get me wrong there are still thousands of amazing, lovely kind bloggers however I feel like blogging is getting a bad rep for being bitter. I sometimes feel like the rise of blogging has had a negative impact on the community as people now feel more pressure to put out content that they feel will attract new readers rather than putting out content that they really care about.
Maybe it's just me but I sometimes wish that it would all go back to the way it was before?
I'd love to know your thoughts on this subject,
Cole xx
I agree with you 100%. It is really sad to see that negativity is slowly taking over the community. I have been blogging for 4.5 years and have seen this slowly coming fourth. I can't do much because I am a tiny blogger, however, if I can spread some positivity, then another blogger reads that, they can spread it, and it can start a huge domino effect.
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I totally agree with you, I'm so proud of blogging getting big, because we do put in a lot of work and we need to be respected as a legitimate form of media. But people are getting so bitchy about everything. Like Laila said above I just do my best to stay supportive and kind to everyone and hope in the end that only reflects back onto the blogging world.
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