Niche of the Niche of the Niche
In one of my rare moments of insight, I’ve come to realize just how niche my blog and general attitude towards (anime) blogging is. Well, at least compared to the big dogs and majority of other anime bloggers currently out there, that is.
I think in general, and most would agree, blogging about x-subject is usually pretty niche unless it’s something universal or popular like politics, sports, community, etc. And anime, well that’s getting pretty niche in an already sea of topics that is seemingly endless. Breaking it down further, just the general topic of anime itself can be split into god knows how many sub-areas; the biggest off the top of my head being episodic summaries, editorials, and news. One can break those topics even further which at the end, really leads to well… a lot that can be talked about that is all under the subject of “anime”.
And this is where my blog eventual falls under, one of those sub-area so frickin’ niche I can probably count somewhat similar blogs I know of with my fingers and still have a few digits to spare. Actually I guess that’s not completely true since unlike others, I really dabble at a range of styles and topics made popular by other folks; just that I can’t stick to one specific style to make my own. Heck just looking at my “years” of various blogging one can see my failed attempts at trying to be unique or at least somewhat consistent. life line by line which got me started and “famous” (at least with the older gen crowd that are still active) was episodic summaries with 50+ screencaps that later on included “witty” (i.e. toilet humor) comments in the caps. After quitting that blog, and eventually starting again with zero thoughts I tried to recapture some of my hay-day style blogging which ultimately failed. Now with this blog (i.e. 11~15% suki), it initially started as a personal blog that turned into a “what I purchased and be jealous of” blog that later on added anime desktop wallpapers which eventually turned into what it is currently; everything I initially started x or y blog for with a focus on “what I purchased and be jealous of” posts.
In all honestly after re-reading the above paragraph, I can’t tell if where the blog is now is a good or bad thing ^^;; But all I do know, and what I simply wanted to say at the start, is being a niche of the niche of the niche of a topic sure is strange…
… and kind of sucky if you’re ever trying to be popular on the ‘net (aka want a nice sized e-p3n1s) 
PS: I apologize if this post seems kind of random and disconnected. I swear I had a nice idea with this post but that eventually got lost as I started to blank out on what to write about once I actually typed this up. Don’t worry, my next couple of posts will hopefully make up for this with the use of my awesome Moyism Photography of Merchandises(TM) skills.
Buy MOAR anime goods!
We come to get the blessings of the cult leader and to see what looks worth getting.
I think your answer is to buy more Touhou goods.
I think your site should go on. It’s a good way to interact you. And now that I think of it… I don’t have any of your other contacts. =/
Having a niche works. Now to figure out how to make it work in a populist way.
Scary to think I’m one of those “old timers” who has followed all of your blog iterations for a while. lol
To my mind a blog is good thing. Indeed it’s really a way to express his-self. Besides that’s a way to share your goodies with your Moyism Photography of Merchandises
Keep the blog going for whatever reason you see fit.
I like watching how you head towards being poor in turbo speed
Gives me a varning example on how not to become :p
Then back on the positive side, the writting is really good and nothing is badly written so I enjoy reading every single post that you make. Wether it´s about recently bought merchandise or your thoughts on the anime bloging era or whatnot.
Just keep doing it!!
Crusader, I’m trying as hard as I can but physical space is stopping me! I need access to hammer-space dang it!
Link, LOL not much into Touhou IMHO
bj0rN, thanks. Wasn’t like I was going to quit (for the 3rd time), just a random thought that I had. Honestly hitting me up on da blog or on MAL is the best way. Don’t go on any IM-ing or IRC much nowadays.
Impz, very true. If I was more scheming, I would so do it but good old laziness stops me yet again.
kiryuu, haha thanks for sticking with me for so long!
kyouray, LMAO my “Moyism Photography of Merchandises” would be banned by any decent photographer
manga, thanks man. And yea I suffer for the masses right?