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Why Do I Sometimes Sell My Soul to The Online Algorithm
For people reading this who wish to become writers, online social media influencers, digital marketers, or journalists, it can be tempting from time to time to sell your scruples to serve the online algorithms due to profit incentives and audience capture.
The big motivator for this is wanting your content to be successful.
These goals are not inherently wrong, and I, from time to time, try to feed the beast that is the online algorithms to ensure that my written work gets read and that what I want to write also gets read by attracting people to the honey when, in reality, I want them to have a salad.
Sometimes, with online content, getting reads requires having a catchy title or a hook to get people interested in reading or watching our work.
This can be done by having a suggestive title like why women like big breasts, why men have cock extensions, or even why Israel is evil and why Palestinians are cruel because we know those kinds of titles have a way of drawing people in.
In regards to the topic of Israel and Gaza, that issue is highly nuanced, and both peoples, be they Israeli and Palestinian, have a strong case when it comes to claiming victimhood and suffering persecution from each other and others.
