I quit.
Happy Valentine's Day.
There's just a number of things happening:
1. Too much shit in my life. Investing time in this blog makes it a losing proposition.
2. There's like three people who read this blog period. That compounds the above problem.
3. The tween/teen entertainment landscape. It's changed, for the worse. That compounds the above two problems.
4. That said developments happen faster than I can keep up with. It makes it hard to watch and keep up with television strictly for review purposes.
5. Most of the best tween/teen entertainment is migrating to subscription platforms I don't even have access to (Netflix, Hulu and now Disney+).
And I've already been through a number of other reasons previously.
So screw it, I quit.
This will be the last post on this blog for, quite literally, the remainder of the history of forever. At least from me. Mike can still do with this blog as he wishes but for the past three and a half years or so that I've been doing this, it's been for the most part a losing, negative investment. Quite possibly one of the most disastrous blogs in history, I mean it, or at least that I'm aware of, just in terms of readership.
And yes, readership matters that much. That's the reality of it all.
I started this blog because, as I've stated multiple times, I've been inspired by Christian and Sean's Girl Meets World Review blog, and although I guess we technically outlasted them (their most recent post being from this past summer), this blog's only have a very tiny sliver of a fraction of the readership they've had. I'm not entirely sure why - well, I kind of do. It's timing. Christian made his blog relatively early in GMW's run, posted it at the IMDb boards at the right time (including, although this is only a small part of it, back when IMDb of course even had boards) and he made his blog about a relatively popular show that, quite frankly, was pre-ordained with that popularity literally months before it even aired (or even before it actually went into production). Of course I was a part of that too, but my bitterness about how the show handled that popularity, handled that popularity in respect to the rest of the network and just other aspects of how it handled its own quality has been much discussed elsewhere.
I did reach out to Christian and Sean if they would like to just promote this blog even minimally, but they declined - which is fair enough, all things considered. But again, they followed on specific show, and while they served as an inspiration for this blog, one thing's been made clear:
6. Nobody really cares about the shows I review and/or my opinions on them.
Really, this was made pretty clear on Girl Meets World Reviewed and the IMDb boards, as people only cared about GMW. I thought maybe, just maybe, there'd be interest in the rest of Disney Channel and Nickelodeon - back in 2012 and 2013, the IMDb boards for A.N.T Farm, Jessie, Austin & Ally, Victorious and even recently expired shows like Wizards of Waverly Place and iCarly were very active and thriving places. You had new replies or threads reliably show up every few hours which is very impressive for a niche board about a tweener sitcom buried under the rest of IMDb, or in general for that matter. There were quite a few thriving communities elsewhere too, though most of those places have since disappeared. For that matter even on the Disney Channel Live-Action Universe page on TVTropes (which has gotten its own posts on this blog - twice, in fact). It is pretty easy to see why that type of thing would thrive as a regular blog in 2012 and 2013, maybe even 2014 when Christian started his - but already a sea change swept through and washed everything out by the time I started this blog in late 2015, and it just went downhill from there. Going into 2019, both networks are outright dying - as in, the state of their very existence is in question.
Meanwhile, it's pretty clear that this blog really died a long, long time ago. If not as soon as it started.
So, um, have fun I guess. I'm pursuing a writing career in other areas other than just blog writing so maybe I'll let you know. But in the meantime, um, Happy Valentine's Day.
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