Time Waster

I’ve been wasting my time writing blogs, as evidenced by this:

This is a video made by me, and it sucks. However, this video has received, at 10:00 p.m. Pacific Time, July 7th, 2011; 46,494 views.
My blog? 1,541.
So I can spend my time making stupid videos and get the population of a small town to watch them, or I can write this blog and get the population of a large high school to read it. I’m not bragging by any means. I simply find the statistics fascinating. My all time most popular blog post has received 504 views. My tenth most popular out of 241? 8. Why waste time on writing when I can use any crappy old cam and reach out to people using the same amount of my time?
Blogs and youtube videos are both in an abundant supply, but people would rather watch videos than read. Besides, youtube as a central site has a wider viewing audience. If you’re blogging, you’re doing it solo, or on one of fifteen or so different services, reaching out to a finite community and hoping people stumble upon you by typing the wrong thing into their search engine.
Why the hell did this video get so many views? Is it because it features a Queen song and hasn’t been torn down yet? Did my title or tags meet some kind of search criteria and people are coming to it by mistake? I have no idea. I don’t know if I’ll ever even get a chance to do another. It takes time to do something even this feeble, but it’d be interesting to try.