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p-artsypants · 5 years

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Longest Night (16) Struggling

Marinette had thought Highschool had been hard. Right now, in this moment, she'd give anything to go back to those petty arguments and gossip fueled drama. But she couldn't. Instead, she and Adrien were trapped here, being punished, humiliated, tortured, for being heroes, all broadcasted for the world to see. At least she and her kitty were in this together. For now. Whump!Fic

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Note: This chapter has brief mentions of the previous two chapters. We are in the viewer’s perspective.

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Hawkmoth. We need to talk. —Salo.

Alya stared at the sentence over and over, her breath hitching in her throat. How could this happen? It couldn’t! It just couldn’t!

“I have to remove this link!” Alya stated. “Max, can I get on your computer?”

“Of course,” he stated, taking out his laptop. “It’s pretty obvious how she posted that. You are using a public server through blogspot, after all.”

“Can you prevent her from doing it again?” She asked, logging into her account.

“Of course. No problem.”

Incorrect username.

Alya clenched her fists. “That bitch kicked me out!”

“Now now, hold on.” Max assured, resting a hand on her shoulder. “Let Markov try.”

“Of course, this will be easy. One moment please.” Markov plugged into the computer, and in a few seconds, the Ladyblog’s dashboard appeared.

“Wonderful! I’ll change my email and password too. After I delete this post!”

It was right up top, in the most plain and boring formatting. Just a white box with black text.

“Huh.” Alya said aloud, staring at it.

“What’s wrong, Al?” Asked Nino.

“There’s no trash icon. No comment section, no share icon, nothing. I can’t edit it or delete it.”

“Allow me,” stated Markov again.

A red triangle with an exclamation point came up on his face. “Whoopsies, we don’t have access to the post.”

“Whaddya mean we don’t have access!? This is my blog, isn’t it?”

“Yes and no.” Said Max. “Everything around this post is your blog. But this box itself is not.”

“Huh?”

“Think of it…as Salo cut a hole in your website and has this in the background, showing through.”

“You can do that?” Asked Nino.

“Not easily, by any means. It’s extremely complicated. I’ve never tried it myself. No need to.”

“So…what do we do?” Alya crossed her arms, looking anxious.

Max screwed up his lip in thought, turning the laptop towards himself. He typed away, a next window coming up. In a flash of textual garbage, too complexed for anyone else to understand, he had a diagnosis. “Okay…well, the post has a slightly different URL, that’s associated with the blog. But it’s being hosted on a private server, which I can’t access. At least not yet. I can try to take it down, but it will take me a few hours, at least.”

“But we don’t have a few hours! Hawkmoth could see this post at any second!”

“I understand. The other thing we could do, is delete the blog in its entirety. Then the post won’t have a URL to associate with and will be unviewable.”

Delete the Ladyblog.

Alya felt sick.

What was two years of hard work in exchange for her friend’s safety? She still had all the videos, all the pictures, she could make a new website, right? One that got Marinette’s approval before every posting.

“Okay—“

“Wait,” said Nino. “Shouldn’t we see where the link goes first? What if it helps the police find them?”

Alya gasped slightly. “I’m glad you thought of that!”

“Markov, initiate Backdraft operations.” Max said.

“Backdraft initiated.”

“What’s backdraft?” Asked Alya.

“It’s simply a protocol I use if I think my presence is being tracked, or I may be counter hacked. It’s basically a fancy firewall.”

“Oh, I see.”

With the class gathered around, Max clicked on the link.

Another window popped up, with a loading wheel. It spun for a moment, then a big red ‘X’ covered the screen and the window closed.

“Hmm…how very interesting.”

“What the heck was that?” Asked Kim, resting his chin on Max’s head like a pest.

“Believe it or not, that was a video chat. But it uses facial recognition to get in.”

“So it’s not going to be helpful to us at all. Huh?”

“I can try to track it. Though it may be difficult since the page closes so quickly.”

Nino whispered as quietly as possible. “Didn’t the detective say he wanted to use your blog to help with the investigation?”

Alya scrunched up her face. Now she had to make two decisions. Stop Hawkmoth, or take the chance and maybe get a lead on Salo.

Any normal person would have gone with the absolute, but Alya was desperate.

“Leave the blog up. Do you think you can track the link?”

“I’ll give it my best shot.” Said Max, honestly.

Alya gave a twitch of a smile.

Something about her conversation with Hawkmoth earlier niggled in her brain. He had addressed her by her name, not as an Akuma. And when she asked him to leave, he left.

Of course, there was no trusting the man, that was obvious, but as far as villains go, she was much more willing to deal with him than Salo.

Alya shook her head. That was an insane thought.

Then the bell rang, and lunch was officially over. Alya and Nino found their seats, now feeling keenly aware that Adrien and Marinette were both absent from class.

“Oh,” said Nino, holding up a pink backpack. “She left it here. Adrien’s is here too.”

Alya smiled fondly. “We’ll carry them back with us.”

—

Miss Bustier was nothing if not understanding. None of the students had their homework done from yesterday, so she just cancelled the assignment. Alya and Nino weren’t given the missed work from this morning either.

She had a feeling they probably wouldn’t be doing it anyways.

Alya had her phone out all day, plugged into a portable charger.

She constantly refreshed the page, hoping for something different.

But no. For hours now, Adrien and Marinette has been hanging by the wrists from chains.

Near the end of the day, Alya looked over to see Marinette speaking to the camera.

She rewound, found the time stamp and raised her hand.

“Yes Alya?”

“Marinette’s saying something! She’s speaking to us!”

“Are you sure?” Miss Bustier asked.

Nino was already next to her, looking at the screen.

“She’s looking right at the camera. I don’t think she’s talking to Adrien.”

“Can I turn on the projector?” Asked Max.

“Well…” Miss Bustier saw the first broadcast. She had turned away the moment Marinette was demanded to strip. She hadn’t watched anything since, and didn’t know if it was safe to show the students.

But looking around, she saw that they were all worried, and eager to see what Marinette had to say.

And so she nodded at Max.

In a matter of seconds, the website was up, and Adrien and Marinette’s states were now visible to the room.

There was a round of gasps.

No one had watched the stream this morning.

“Is that…is that Adrien?” Chloe asked, with choking breath.

Regardless of the state of room, Alya hit play.

Marinette looked around, and then looked directly at the camera. She gave a tired little smile.

“Hey,” she spoke in an absolutely broken voice. “If you’re watching this, you…you’re probably feeling a little hopeless. I don’t blame you. I feel…pretty hopeless too. I mean, I’m…I’m stuck. I’m not sure how I’m going to get out of this. But…but Ladybug always saves the day, right?” She glanced away, choosing her words. “My name is Marinette Dupain-Cheng. I’m 17 years old, and my favorite color is pink. I’m the daughter of the best bakers in Paris, though I might be a little bias.” She smiled slightly. “Before I became Ladybug, I was a normal girl, with a normal life. What made me extraordinary, was my willingness to help others, and my kindness. So Paris, I have a favor to ask:

“Be helpful and kind. Go out of your way do something nice for someone once a day. If you can do this for me, then I know Paris will be safe until we return.”

“I promise.” Alya heard Chloe whisper.

She glanced over to Adrien, then off screen, and then back at the camera. “Maman, Papa...I’m really really sorry I had to hide this from you. I didn’t want to, and some days I thought about how much easer it would be if I just told you. How I could explain the lateness and absences, and my bad grades. But I just had to let you think I was a bad kid. It was for your safety, after all...but despite my best efforts, this still happened, and now you’re in danger. Please get somewhere safe. Leave Paris if you have to. I love you so much. I promise I’ll be out soon.”

Her brow crinkled, as she hesitated. Then, “Alya, I’m sorry too. You…you probably feel kinda betrayed right now. But, like I said, it was for your own safety. You were put in peril so many times because of me. How many more would that have been if Hawkmoth thought you knew my identity? After everything, I hope you finally believe me now...sorry, that was harsh. I...I’ll forgive you, if you forgive me. Deal?”

Alya broke down sobbing. If there was anything else to be heard, she missed it. Of course she forgave Marinette! How could she not? Marinette picked her as Rena Rouge, time and time again!

And what did she do in return?

Stab her in the back.

Some best friend she was.

“Al…” Nino comforted. “It’s alright.”

“It’s not alright!” Alya shouted, startling everyone. She hated how much of a mess she was. She was supposed to be a superhero, damnit! But at this rate, Hawkmoth would try to akumatize her again.

“She’s right, you know.” Said Miss Bustier, rubbing a hand under her eye. “It’s not alright.” She cleared her throat and spoke to the class. “I know things seem bleak right now. And it’s okay to be upset. It’s okay to grieve and to hurt. But it’s never okay to hurt others to make yourself feel better. That’s exactly what Salo is doing. That’s what Hawkmoth has done for years. I know it hurts, and things seem hopeless. But we need to listen to Marinette, to Ladybug. Go out of your way to be kind to someone.”

Alya breathed a sigh. Miss Bustier always knew what to say to make things better.

“Alya, can you come stand with me please?”

She nodded, getting to her feet. Up front, Miss Bustier hugged her, and held her around the waist, as she beckoned each one of her students forward.

“Alya, you’re so smart.”

“You’ve got a wicked sense of humor!”

“You’re really perceptive, and notice things that others don’t!”

“You always put in that extra bit of work to make a project look amazing!”

On and on, each student complimented her, as was custom in Miss Bustier’s class. But all of them were genuine, not just going through the motions.

Except maybe Lila, but still, it was hard to tell. “You are really dedicated to your blog, and put everything on it, to make it just right.”

Alya swallowed. That comment fell flat in comparison to the others.

Chloe came up, a scowl directed in Lila’s direction, then she grabbed Alya by the upper arms. “You are fiercely protective to your friends. No matter who they are. If you feel friendly towards them, you protect them. And that’s something I’ve always admired about you.”

Alya wanted to cry again, but she spared Chloe the satisfaction. “You’re just trying to be nice.”

“Me? Nice? As if!” She scoffed, but they both knew it was true.

“The reason we do these activities,” explained Miss Bustier, “is so that when you see someone having hard time, you take the time to cheer them up. It should be an automatic response.”

“For Marinette and Adrien!” Cheered Kim in the back.

“For Marinette and Adrien!”

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After school, Alya and Nino gathered their stuff from their lockers. It was time to head back to the Agreste Mansion, for their own safety. Though, the temptation to go out and patrol was strong. Yet the heat was still on, and it wasn’t smart to risk it just quite yet.

“Alya?” A soft voice asked.

It was Choe. And she looked shy. Sabrina was no where to be seen.

“Hey Chloe,” Alya said pleasantly. It felt better to just be nice, like Miss Bustier suggested.

“I…” Chloe started, then she turned away. It took a few tries, each time she started differently. Then, she finally managed out. “I don’t know what to do.”

“What?”

“I…I don’t know what to do. Normally, when I want something, daddy just buys it for me. He takes care of everything. I’ve never been in a situation where I couldn’t have what I wanted. But…but I can’t do that with this. I begged daddy to save them. Both of them. And he tried! He talked to the chief of police and they got in contact with Europol…but basically…there’s nothing they can do. So…I have to do it myself. I have to save them.”

Alya scoffed slightly. “You can’t save them yourself.”

“I have too.” Chloe said right back, her daily stubbornness shining through. “You don’t understand!”

“Chloe…”

“I found the Bee Miraculous. Marinette dropped it, and I found it. Despite all my mistakes, all my insults and my cruelty, Marinette…Marinette let me become Queen Bee. Several times. She threw a party for me, when I felt like no one liked me. She went out of her way to help me reconnect with my mother. And…” She started to sob.

Chloe, it’s me, Ladybug. You can trust me, you can tell me the truth.

You have a purpose.

“She spoke to me in a way no one else had before. She was so…so nice! And she meant it! Only Adrien ever treated me like that! But I was never mean to him!” She sniffed and rubbed her eyes. “That’s why I have to save them! She has to know how sorry I am! How much I appreciate her! And how much Ladybug still means to me!”

Alya was touched. “Why you telling me this?”

“Because you’re the Ladyblogger, duh! You’ve got to know something! Don’t you have a hint to who Rena Rouge are Carapace are? Any way to contact them? I want to help them! As Queen Bee!”

Alya screwed up her lip. “And you don’t care about the attention of being a superhero in the limelight again?”

“Puh-lease, if I cared about attention, I wouldn’t look like this!” She gestured to herself.

Nino snickered. “I didn’t even think you owned a track suit.”

“How do you think I stay in peak physical form? By Instagraming all day?!”

“Still…”

“Fine! It’s Givenchy! Give me a break!”

Alya and Nino shared a look of understanding. Now was the time to use all the help they could get. Alya reached into her bag and pulled out a little black box. “Chloe Bourgeois. This is the Miraculous of the Bee. You will use it for good. Until such a time that Ladybug and Chat Noir are safe, you will keep it safe and protect it.”

“And you won’t put it on your snap story!” Nino added, harshly.

Chloe took the box, reverently. “Are…are you sure?”

“The guardian gave it to us, and told us to give it to you when we felt it was safe.”

Chloe, smiling, opened the lid, and a glittering yellow light appeared.

“Hello my queen!” Pollen sang.

“Pollen!” She scooped her up and held her to her cheek. Then she looked back to Alya and Nino. “When do we start our patrol?”

Alya laughed, happy to see Chloe so eager. “Soon. But we have some catch up to play.”

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It had never been this hard to akumatize someone.

Granted, Chloe Bourgeois had put up a great fight. But it was nothing like this.

Hawkmoth had assumed Alya would be the perfect candidate to become an Akuma. In all the times he had been around her, granted it was only a handful, she had been absolutely devastated.

Lady WiFi had been amazing, and given her powers of pausing, she would have been great.

But, she was not cooperative. Sure, maybe he could have pushed her a little more, put on the pressure. But it didn’t feel right.

Nothing about this felt right.

And that’s what made him so conflicted.

Because we was willing to do whatever it took to get Emilie back. Exploiting people who were having the worst day, who were in unbearable pain.

So why the hesitation now? This was Adrien, the light of his life. The only family he had left. He loved his son, although he often had a hard time showing it.

He reached out to Nino Lahiffe, who, admittedly, was not as visibly upset as Alya had been, but his hurt was still present. Nino was unbearably calm as he asked Hawkmoth to ‘kindly f—- off.’

Next was Chloe Bourgeois. Surely she would agree, right? She loved Adrien!

Oh but she was nearly feral trying to get rid of him. She yanked on her hair and screamed and cried.

He left quickly, feeling her pain as his own.

He looked at Tom and Sabine, but didn’t have the heart to even try. Ladybug’s parents, now that was cruel.

He was beginning to run out of victims. Gorilla? Nathalie? Himself?

Lila Rossi! She was always ready and willing to be akumatized!

But then, he remembered with growing horror that she hated Marinette Dupain-Cheng. She may try to save Adrien, but she’d leave Marinette all alone to suffer. And that was almost worse.

He dropped his transformation, a dropped to his knees.

“Master? Please don’t cry.”

“I disgust myself.” He whined in the back of his throat. “Why…why can’t I do it? What makes this so different? Am I not desperate enough? Do I not love Adrien enough?!"

Noroo swooped in and nuzzled against Gabriel’s cheek. “You love Adrien plenty. Don’t beat yourself up over having sympathy for others in pain.”

Gabriel swallowed, digesting the kwami’s words. “I suppose...that means there’s hope for me yet.”

The elevator rose, bringing Nathalie into the room. “Sir, Madame Cheng has something to show you on the stream.”

“She found something?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Then we’ll continue this later Noroo, let’s go.”

—

Sabine stood in the lobby, her phone in hand. Thankfully, the stream could be rewound to repeat anything that had happened. And so when Gabriel finally emerged from his office, she went to him, thrust the phone in his face, and pressed play.

“Notausgang.”

“Pardon?”

“Notausgang. Does that word sound familiar?”

“No...it sounds German though. Why?”

“It’s written on the wall behind you.”

“Like Graffiti?”

“No...it looks like it’s supposed to be there. Like a sign.”

“A German sign on the wall? You don’t think...we’re in Germany, do you?”

“I have no clue where we are, but...why else would there be German on the wall?”

“Well, maybe we’re still in France. Maybe not Paris, but Alsace-Lorraine or...”

“Notausgang is German for ‘Emergency Exit’. It’s everywhere in Germany.” Gabriel responded. “Not so much in Alsace-Lorraine. If there’s no French by it, it’s safe to assume they are in Germany.”

Sabine choked. “Oh no…no no no…”

Gabriel rested a calm hand on her arm. “Sabine, it’s alright. This is good. We know we’re looking in the wrong place, and we can tell the detective what we learned. Okay?”

She nodded, wiping her cheeks. “I just…they’re so far…I feel so helpless!”

“I feel the same.” He assured.

And he did. Not only did he have no clue where they were in Germany, but his akumas couldn’t reach farther than Paris. Even if he were to go to Germany, he’d have to spend days hopping around from city to city. And that wasn’t suspicious at all.

Still…if that’s what it took.

First, they’d talk to the detective. Then they’d plan the next move.

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murfeelee · 6 years

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Tumblr’s Ineptitude Strikes Again: Empty Archives

Uh...Tumblr? Buddy? Pal....

Why the eff is my Archive suddenly empty? O_o

Moreover, why are the only posts showing up the same posts y'all flagged, that I appealed for a review? Where are the other posts?

The Archive is now only showing 1 or 2 posts for October 2018 to August 2015!

For reference, here is my Mass Post Editor, showing all my posts intact: (October 2018 - August 2018).

I’m being filtered from myself! XD

Y’all literally just removed whole months -- whole YEARS worth of my posts from my Archive (2017 just isn’t even there). Even the posts y’all didn’t flag are gone! Nothing’s been deleted from my account (yet >_> ) but they’re not visible on my site, either! (I almost had a effing heart attack, thinking all my posts had been removed; it ain’t Dec 17 yet! This is NOT COOL.)

I’m over here busy trying to backup my posts to “A Better, More Positive” Blogspot, where it’s safe for me to post my SFW posts without the fear of them being thrown out with the bathwater as y’all fumble around with your busted filtering system, but now I can’t even see my own posts in the Archive to back them up!?

AAAARRRRRGH! >_<

I can’t keep this up all day, constantly telling Tumblr that you’re flagging the wrong posts and your precious algorithm can’t even tell SFW from NSFW.

Where can we find out which posts of ours got flagged, other than our tumblr.com/blog/username page? I have literally thousands of posts, and I’m sitting here scrolling and scrolling, and as of right now none of my posts are showing up as flagged so far, yet nothing’s showing up in my Archive, either!,

WHAT. IS. GOING. ON.

STOP IT, TUMBLR

#tumblr #tumblr issues #tumblr problem #smdh

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jimmytwohands · 6 years

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Other places to follow me in case I get banned

On one of my pages a few doodles of genderless creatures with nipples got flagged as offensive, and I don’t have time to go thru all 5 of my accounts to look for flagged posts. A few pictures of my cats already got deleted (but none of the comics with actual dicks in them, for some reason). I’ll still post here unless I get banned, and hopefully I’ll get back into regularly drawing comics in the future. So in case any of my accounts get removed, or if you’re done with this platform, here’s where you can find me:

Twitter: @jimmy_two_hands

Instagram: @summerjimbo

Facebook for Hetfield the Cat: @hetfield.the.metallicat

Facebook for Danziggy: @Danziggy.Lucifudge

Facebook for Peehole: @peehole.magazine

If you want my actual Facebook profile, feel free to message me but I’m not posting that publicly for all the thousands of weirdos and pornbots who follow my different accounts here.

Maybe I’ll fire up my old blogspot again, that’s here: http://jimmytwohands.blogspot.com/

I think I got a MySpace too, I forget.

I’ve been doing a radio show lately, that’s here: http://www.radionope.com/podcasts/electricbeachblanket/

If anyone wants links to my different original musical projects let me know, I already posted enough.

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shinssoliloquy · 4 years

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WHO? WHAT? WHERE? WHY? HOW?

5 Questions you should ask anyone when they’re starting off a project made from the basis of ego and tenacity. I’m really not a particularly smart person, But I’m smart enough to know how dumb I really am.

I’ve always been itching to do this. Twitter was never a great way to display my thoughts and writing on grounds that by limiting characters your characters by tweet you’d either get into long threads of diatribes that likely no one will even read or you’d have to space out your thoughts and mince words in order to fit to these said limitations. Obviously it’s not a bad way per say to fully flesh out your thoughts but there’s obviously some downsides and you won’t be fully capable of fulfilling those quandaries, much so espousing on your thoughts and opinions to the fullest extent. I could write a book but I’m not knowledgeable enough feel like my thoughts are worth putting into a non-fiction book. I could join discord servers but I don’t know a wreath of people who even care. I could still talk off into the Twitter void but that’s only for short bursts at a time, any ideas or subjects I’d like to elucidate or spell out would just get lost, all my themes would shoot off into the negative space that is a twitter timeline regardless of if they’re worth revisiting or not.

But of course, would it even matter if people do care or they don’t. People live off making Youtube videos and content based on themselves because they assume people actually care about whatever benign thought or creative pursuit they’d have in their head. It’s not up to me to judge if my thoughts are worth putting out there but I guess the reason people use social media is to give a voice to the voiceless, have anyone out there a chance of their own success, But how does that affect content input though, How does impact your very own mental psyche. This is a conversation for another post and it’s far from a topic I’ll have any meaningful outlook on, just from my own experiences as an outsider looking in.

WHO?

I always fancied myself a writer more than an illustrator. The whole crux of my need to learn how to draw was from the idea that “hey no one wants to draw my webcomic ideas on something awful or whatever internet messaging board I was using at the time that’ll date this post when I look back on it when I’m 40, I’ll learn how to draw then and show everyone I can STILL MAKE IT” Then I started drawing and never really looked back. Within the few years or so since I’ve made that discovery I never really focused on my writing, much less my creative writing. I’ve had few instances where I’d try to light up my spark by blog posting was making other short lived wordpresses and blogspots where I can peruse and write for a short while until I get bored and go back to drawing everyday. Of course two particular things happened in which I’ve gotten that spark back, to an extent. 1. The corona virus quarantine happened and I was stuck with nothing to do, I dropped out of school to go to a new college out of country that hasn’t really happened yet and aside from my retail job I haven’t had a good outlet for where to put my creativity too. So I ended up just drawing more but also, reading off some books off my backlog. I’ve always been interested in philosophy and non-fiction since reading Kant and Hume at age 12 and Now rediscovered it because of quarantine. Really I’ve always been a better writer or story teller than anything else but efforts to light up that energy in me has been fruitful and I’ve relegated to being another artist in the pile of artists who’s only personality is that they “like art”. Which made me realized how much of a better self sufficient and self respecting the writer can be rather then the animator. Illustrations are fleeting, words stick with you. Of course greats work of art exist and will always exist. Beautiful paintings can grip me just as much as a good work of philosophy can, But lately beautiful paintings have been disgruntled and disavowed from public schema. If you want to provide good art for people to see, use hashtags and make fast fleeting content for people to consume easily and forget about. Such is the way of social media and how they grip you to keep using their products, It’s not a revolutionary idea but it’s a concept that ends up working. In a way I’d like to counteract this by making fast fleeting content but also putting in forth ideas and writings which I can consider good but we’ll see how that ends up panning out. My goals as an artist is for another topic entirely but really I need a way to practice my non-fiction writing skills and having a blog where I can just go on and on about pointless shit is good exercise. 2. I’ve stopped communicating to people that would point me to a direction in life I didn’t really need to go through and because of that I took a detour in my mental stability and mental development, really it wasn’t good for me. but because of that I was able to keep track of where I need to go and have removed all elements in my life that can allow me to find different paths and know where I’ll truly be. I could also just talk to people about these kinds of stuff but it’s hard to really find people who I can talk about the stuff I want to talk about with and nothing really beats writing a whole diatribe about whatever comes to your mind at the time. Why do I have a lot on my mind? You’ll hear that story in another time but it’s MOST likely an autism thing.

WHAT?

Look at section: Who again but to summarize and clarify what I mean. Content is fast fleeting and non-self actualizing, people don’t want ideas they want content, They need personalities to leech off and see themselves in instead of being creatives themselves. As someone who makes art and wants to make more art It’s hard to really judge if my art is worth it for the algorithm or if it’s worth it to bring in audience retention. Not to mention most people who use social media are kids, and the only way to grab kids attention is to play to their interests, play into their already corroded brains by playing onto their synapses, Not to imply I dislike it per say but more so that I feel that certain audience can somewhat affect your creative output.

WHERE?

I made a Medium account last month after reading an article on Luxury Communism. It was a fine article but what I got out of it was how good it seems to use Medium to communicate and write articles like these, Until I realized that really it can only be used for more academic pieces and while sure I’d like to do that one day something more lowkey and personal was what I really needed. Hence a tumblr, originally a blogging website before being used to oxidize internet discourse and internet creativity in general, was a perfect outlet for these kinds of posts. I’m actually used to using tumblr for one and can edit and know my way around doing these sorts of posts and the archive feature is good if I ever want to look back on old posts as opposed to Twitter. I can use the ask feauture to take requests or have feedback on my posts in a more concise manner. Unlike Medium or Wordpress I can easily hide certain posts or even the entire account if I wanted too and I won’t be seen or be recommended by the algorithm because I won’t even put tags on these posts. If you know where to find me you know where to find me. Although I do think I’ll make this public at some point I atleast need to know if I’ll even use this or if I’ll even keep making the same kinds of posts as I’d want too.

WHY?

I’ve already explained why you knucklehead, but I guess here were some of my inspirations to make a writing blog. I could list actual writers or twitter personalities or internet reviewers with blogs I can talk about, for example Yahtzee Crosshaw, Film Crit Hulk, Or even the elusive Andrew Hussie when he had a wordposts and while those people were instrumental to my development as a writer and artist I can’t say they were my full inspiration for making this.

Back in 2016, I was introduced to the Procrastinators’ Podcast by consuming Digibro content and having her podcast be linked at the end of one of her videos. I’ve since started concurrently watching her podcast and while I’ve always sucked into Digi’s cult of personality I’ve started appreciated her other friends in the podcast too, everyone except Nate. One of those members I gravitated too was MunchyWearsTinyHats. He was only one year older than me but I could still see myself in him and in effect appreciated him more than anyone in the podcast. We both seemingly grew up watching and reading the same shit, Homestuck, TF2, He introduced me to Nuclear Throne which because one of my favorite games and we both had the same appreciation for Hussie, Sam Hyde (sadly) Performance art, weird abstract art bullshit and of course My Little Pony. If I actually joined RFCK who knows what would’ve happened but that’s just my take. Of course a surface level description of Munchy aside, as someone who consumed everything he was in, I Lived my life vicariously through him and to all the members of the Procrastinators’ Podcast to an extent even though we both became completely different people as we reached our 20s. Currently he’s 20 and I’m less than a year away to being 20. But I feel as if our paths have drifted far enough that I can properly say I became a whole new different person to who I was in 2016. I still have appreciation for MLP, Homestuck and Minecraft and all the weird media shit me and him consumed. Back then I even modeled my art and persona to look like his too, It was a whole thing. Of course all of these posts and videos and personalities are very very out of date and they don’t reflect the content I consume or even the type of person I am now. I had a friend who also liked the PCP, well it was more like a love-hate relationship I feel but it was nice having someone who I could talk about the PCP with since at this time they were the only people or content creators I was consuming, what’s less said about current pcp the better. She’s always told me, I feel sorry for people who model their lives around these content creators and take advice from them since they clearly don’t know what they’re doing. And while I agree with her to an extent, I wouldn’t go as far as to discredit these artists accomplishments since they seem fulfilled with what they’ve made of themselves, not like we’re doing anything different or are any different to them. It’s about trying to live in a world with your own meaning in it and you can’t do that but disparaging the careers of grown men you don’t even know. Again topic for another day but I guess with this blog I’m always copying and ripping off some of their ideas for myself. In 2019, Munchy made a Tumblr where he’d detail and do the same thing and post blogs or writings he’s made or opinions he’s had, It hasn’t been updated in a year and a half but if it isn’t broke, don’t call the gas company asking for a refund. I even stole his alliteration with Shinsuke’s Soliloquy and Munchy’s Manuscripts, Shinsuke being my real God-given name. Of course the posts on his tumblr are really incredibly out of date and downright stupid and I’ll talk about them on their own on a seperate post since I feel like he really just didn’t know what he talked about and they’re baseline at best and wrong at worst. Regardless he still planted the seed of me as a person to make my own blog and talk about random bullshit.

HOW?

Obviously I will still tweet out stuff on my private twitter, Obviously I will still make art. Right now I’m making my own comics and writing a few short stories that maybe? I’ll put here I’m not really sure. Just depends on if they’re worthy on being posted since I’ll make a short story collection with them instead. Maybe I’ll continue the favorite character writing, maybe I’ll make my own picrew. We’ll see and no doubt these promises will become out of date in a week or two. Rather than the right of the moment malaise of tweeting around bullshit and sending it quickly I’ll use this for more concise text, something that I can sink my teeth in and tap away for what like 5 hours or so? Beats the essays i’d be doing but it doesn’t help that I am typing this in total silence, and I guess those essays will just be posted here. Do people post their school essays like they post their poems or their artwork for school? If you want to use my ask blog then it’s right there if you want a topic for me to talk about or just ask me a regular question. I’m bringing back tumblr asks to it’s real purpose. And of course, the only thing sure about me, is that nothings for sure.

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Buy a domain and attach with Blogger

When you start your work on Blogger, you are given a no cost sub domain by Blogger. On Blogspot you get AdSense approval but it will be too late for you to access your site. The sub domain calculates that if any of your clicks come from India, your domain will be in front of .in if the click comes from USA. So .usa will come in front of the site. If a visitor comes from Pakistan, then .pk will come in front of your site, but the problem is that it takes a lot of time to rank this site and it approves adsense. Also get too late.

I will show you how you can attach Godaddy High Level .com domain to your blog by removing Blogspot sub domain .blogspot I will tell you.

The first thing you need to do is visit Godaddy website. If you want to buy a domain, you must have a MasterCard or Visa card. Only then can you buy Godaddy .com domain. The top level domain will tell you how to attach it to Blogger.

Visit now Godaddy website.

Godaddy.pk

Godaddy.in

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If you are from India then select .in If you are from Pakistan then select .pk If you are from USA then select .usa and register domain in the way I will tell you.

When you click on the link to Godaddy site you will be taken to Godaddy homepage. First you have to sign up to Godaddy and then you have to buy a domain.

If you want to sign up to Godaddy from your Facebook account, you can also sign up from your Facebook account. If you don't have a Facebook account, you can also sign up from your Google Account. You have to add your complete details. You have to get your Godaddy account verified. You will get it done when you buy a domain. You have to save Godaddy password properly, otherwise your domain may be compromised. In Detail you have to enter your home address, your country, your postal code and then you have to buy your domain. For this you have to have Visa card then you have to save your Visa card number, expiry date CVV code and buy land.

Your Debit card:

Back side : CVV code example 123

Front side card no example: 4245 5757 3565 5675

And front side example: expiry date 09/26

When you sign up on Godaddy, a home page will open in front of you in which you have to search for your domain name and add it to the cart. Will.

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I have shown you clearly in the picture that you have to buy Godaddy's .com domain where I have marked the arrow and mark the circle. You have to click on it and the next page will open in front of you. You have to complete it and buy the .com domain by entering your details.

NEXT STEP:

I will show you the complete way to attach your purchased .com domain with Blogger as I will show in the picture which has an arrow on it and a circle which will show in the picture as you clearly see your .Com domain can be attached to your blogger and your .blogspot.com can be removed from your blogger.

Setting Complete:

As I told you, you have to buy Godaddy top level .com domain and attach it to your blogger and remove your blogger's .blogspot domain if you want to increase your Godaddy .com domain authority. If so, read our article.

Another thing that can cause a 404 error on your site is if you do not complete the setting of the domain then I will tell you how you can solve it:

I'll tell you why a 404 error occurs on your site and how you can fix it. The latest trick is that before today on YouTube and on the blog very few people would have told you I will tell you there are many mistakes that you make and if a 404 error occurs on your site then I will tell you how you can solve it. I will tell you three points. Only then will you understand the trick to solve the 404 error.

Main three points:

(1) If you have been working on Blogger for a long time and you have not taken the custom domain, then you use .blogspot domain. If you publish a new post then your domain will not be open and 404 will come to your site.

(2) The second point is that this point is very important. If you understand this, you can avoid making a big mistake. If you used to work on Blogger, you have converted all the content of your blog to WordPress. Deleting all the articles and converting them to WordPress then 404 error will come to your site. Why it comes is that when your custom domain is on Blogger, all your articles are indexed by the crawler to your site. What happens is that when all your content goes to WordPress, the crawler also leaves your site and gets a 404 error on your site.

(3) Let me tell you another point which can be very detrimental to you if you miss it. If you do not have a custom domain. You can avoid only I am giving you an example like if you named the subdomain blogger.blogspot.com you changed your URL for some reason and named the URL youtube.blogspot.com then your page There will definitely be a 404 error. I'm just giving you an example of a sub domain. The sub domain never gets a 404 error. The 404 error only comes on a top-level domain. com, .net, .co comes on domains like this so I just gave you an example to explain it means if you bought a custom domain you lost that domain and you bought another domain then with you It can happen.

Solve process 404 error:

If you have missed any of these 3 points and you do not know and 404 error has occurred on your site then how can you remove it I will tell you when you visit your blogger If I add a custom site, there is one thing in it. If you miss it, your site will get 404 error. Let me tell you about this. If there is a 404 error on your site, your site's ranking will go down. And visitors to your site leave your site and go to someone else's site.

You must add this code to your domain's DNS when setting up your domain's DNS.

185.199.108.153

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If you did not add this code to your DNS settings, you will get a 404 whenever you publish a new article. If an error occurs, you should index your article in Google, then 404 error will be removed from the top of your site.

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mxblog24 · 4 years

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How to Increase Ad Profit Without Increasing Traffic

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The majority of publishers who are just starting out seem to think that the only way to increase their profits is by getting more traffic to your website.

This could not be more wrong!

More often than not, you will see much bigger increases from making changes to your website or your ads, instead of getting more eye-balls to your blog.

Here are the top 7 ways to increase ad profit without increasing traffic.

Different ad networks have different limitations in terms of how many ads you can show on a page. They’ve set these limits for a reason — using this number of ads usually makes the most money for the ad network, which means that you’ll also make the most money out of it.

In the case of Infolinks, for example, make sure you test out all of the products:

Most of these you’ll be able to use at the same time and it would be silly not to try them out. Keep adding them on your site one-by-one with small breaks in between and if something makes your revenue drop or ruins the user experience on your website — remove it and try a different combination.

This may sound slightly contradictory to my previous bit of advice, but it’s true. Although I encourage you to try and use all of the advertising options you’ve got access to, you have to do it within reason.

If your whole website is full of ads, pop-ups and content become unreadable, your visitors will never return and it may heavily affect the traffic your website gains from search engines.

Non-intrusive advertising is fine with the majority of readers so put yourself in your readers’ shoes and analyze your pages. Where would you be likely to look at an ad and click on it?

To make this easier, you can use tools like heat maps and video recorders. One of the best options for this is a tool called MouseFlow. It records your website from the user’s perspective, showing you how they move their mouse, where they click, and so on.

The tool is free up to 100 recordings per month and has premium versions as well. You can actually use the coupon code “MonetizePros” to get 750 free recordings with them.

This is definitely one of the easiest ways to optimize your ads. If an ad or ad unit is making you a lot of money, you should place it where it gets seen the most.

Above the fold is the section of your website which is visible without the need to scroll — for example, your header and your menu.

The majority of people do not scroll through your entire page so many of your ad units may be getting fewer impressions than they deserve.

It’s important to keep in mind that sometimes ads perform well because of their location and moving them above the fold may actually decrease earnings — always remember to measure the impact of your changes.

In general, this experiment tends to pay off and increase revenue up to 35%.

This isn’t directly rated to revenue but it’s probably the most important point in this article.

Invest some money in starting a blog that looks professional.

Have a look at these two websites, which one do you trust more? Which one’s ads are you more likely to click on (without the fear of malware)?

A BlogSpot niche site will never look as good as a professionally made website on a proper blogging platform.

Here’s a good rule to follow: pretend you’re bigger than you are.

Even if you’re running a small website about taking care of cats, act as if you’re running the biggest cat magazine in the world and your readers will feel the same.

Having a proper website or the right platform also gives your more opportunities for split-testing ad layouts, different designs and so on.

The most common mistake I’ve seen in display advertising is trying to make your ad units match the design of your website. Sure, your blog will look beautiful but no one will notice your ads.

Find complementary colors that make your ad units stand out from the rest of your website. For example, if you’ve got an orange theme on your website, blue will fit in the design perfectly but stand out from all of the rest.

Try different colors and yet again, measure the impact. On a lot of tests that we’ve done over at MonetizePros, the ugliest colors we could find had the best click-through rates!

While it’s scary to make your site look “ugly” — your readers will not leave because of it. Advertising is a part of life and your readers know it, as Dominic Wells said in his post about display advertising myths.

We all spend huge amounts of time on our smartphones and tablets but when it comes to internet marketing, most people neglect their mobile readers.

On MonetizePros for example, nearly 30% of our traffic comes from mobile devices and tablets! That’s over 30,000 people a month!

Whichever ad network you’re using, make sure they’ve got mobile ads as well.

With a little help from a developer, you will be able to set up different ad layouts for desktop and mobile, which means you can split-test the locations separately.

Since the user experience is completely different, the ad placements have to be different.

Getting more traffic overall is great but you should also try to get more page views per user.

While I might not click on an ad when landing on the first article I’m reading from your website, usually, a second-page view will show me completely different ads that I may be more likely to click on.

Try to interlink the content on your website as much as possible and keep your users engaged!

The best example for this is any major news outlet. You’ve surely seen articles like “The Best Blogs For Entrepreneurs You Should be Reading”.

Why do you think they use those annoying slideshows and galleries? To get more page views, more ad impressions, and more clicks.

While I don’t recommend killing your user experience with the kind of stuff that Inc.com does, it’s a good example of what’s possible.

What tests have you done, that increases your advertising revenue the most?

Originally published at https://businessscan24.blogspot.com.

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erickogtl713-blog · 4 years

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5 Cliches About Www Autoblog Com You Should Avoid

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Or did it? If you were wondering how to start a blog without ever lifting a finger, i’m afraid you’re out of luck. You see, the days of slapping something together and receiving an endless amount of traffic are long gone. That being said, autoblogging is actually very powerful to this day, but only if you put some additional effort on your part.

Let’s talk more about the aforementioned “ongoing effort” required, and the best ways to make content aggregation work for you. Create a hybrid blog consisting of original and syndicated content combined. As autoblogs mainly consist of previously-published content, you shouldn’t expect to receive any organic traffic from Google. Why? Because it normally ranks the original content over its copied counterpart.

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This may also increase your blog’s overall usefulness as it neatly complements and strengthens the syndicated portion of your blog. Create a purely-syndicated website with no original content. While I personally prefer the first option, there are ways to be successful with a blog that features no original content of any kind.

Now let’s look at some real-life examples as a means of backing up the above two options. We all know how cats took over the internet, especially after YouTube arrived at the scene. autologin. Much like avid kitty lovers, there are plenty of other animals people enjoy watching on a daily basis; this is your chance to import a niche selection and grow an amazingly fun website.

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For each video published on your blog, you could write a brief description by dissecting exactly what takes place in the footage. This gives you a chance to add a unique spin or humorous commentary. In addition, this small effort helps with your blog’s SEO while removing much of the legwork, as you won’t have to manually add relevant videos yourself - automatic blogging.

This is perhaps the most common and natural idea. As news pieces never stop coming, there will always be something to show your blog audience (blogs auto). Let’s say your blog is about science and technology. In this case, dedicate a page to the latest (aggregated) news and breakthroughs to complement your original content in between.

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And as your site will be updated 24 hours a day thanks to the power of aggregation, this could become the go-to place for many readers over time. It helps to have the best of both worlds. One of my websites actually displays remote writing gigs from all over the web.

Meanwhile, I post a fair share of original content to help elevate authority content marketing calendar and bring in additional traffic. These aggregated jobs have proven highly successful and many users return everyday to find new home-based gigs with ease. blogspot beginners. Can you think of other niche jobs to add to your website? There are plenty of professions out there; make it easy by gathering them in one place job seekers will love you for it.

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While you could certainly go at it alone, your connections to fellow solopreneurs helps elevate your status as they expose you to their own audience over time - wordpress autoblogger. A good way to accomplish this is to link to their latest blog posts, and this is where autoblogging functions come in handy.

A content aggregator plugin can further refine your results through the use of filters and other related options. The above also gives your audience even more to read, as they’d happily check out an article from your favorite bloggers due to their relevancy. Autoblogging allows you to get even more creative by constructing an extensive directory – either niche or fairly broad.

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These guys have formed a gigantic blog directory that consists of blog RSS feeds in every conceivable category. blogs on auto. This has made AllTop stand out as one of the best places to discover new blogs and interesting topics. Contrary to the aforementioned idea (featuring posts from your favorite bloggers), a full-fledged directory would showcase a more extensive/broad list that ultimately link back to the original source.

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It’s highly recommended that you follow option #1 above, as publishing both new and aggregated content (at the same time) works like a charm. Here are some additional tips to truly leverage aggregated content… I personally rely on WP RSS Aggregator along with some complimentary add-ons, including Keyword Filtering to get only the exact content I need.

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WP RSS Aggregator Get started with autoblogging on WordPress today. Do you wish to bypass original content – and therefore organic traffic – altogether? In that case, Leverage social media and popular niche communities. Organic search should only be a portion of your overall traffic, not the primary source. Don’t be afraid of “losing traffic to other bloggers” by aggregating their links.

You may then ask them to share your content as a favor and make this a win-win situation. Regardless of your idea, ensure you have the rights and permissions to display all aggregated content – especially when it comes to full-fledged pieces as opposed to mere links. As you can see, autoblogging is very much alive – and I speak from personal experience (blog used).

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Think of the material you could aggregate, the helpful directories you could build, the potential relationships you could develop, among other great ideas. Best of luck! Elvis Michael is a passionate freelancer and solopreneur. He enjoys improving freelance culture and teaching others how to reach their goals. Autoblogging is a way of setting up a website whose blog is taken care of automatically, constantly updated with fresh, curated and quality content of your choice.

Are You looking for Premium or Free Best AutoBlogging plugins for WordPress? Using AutoBlogging Plugin You can easily import the RSS , Atom feeds and display them on the website . Maintaining a Blog website is really a difficult job . So many of the people want a blog website which will automatically create post and publish them .

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They basically fetch the other website content and convert them into post automatically and post that from your website. automat blog. Autoblogging is not done by good websites. Even Google hate these websites because mainly these website are used by spammer’s and content scrapers . So without wasting our time anymore we will look into list of Best AutoBlogging plugins for WordPress which are as follows: WP Robot helps the users to create high quality WordPress blog posts and that too automatically.

It has also gained the title of best autoblogging plugin for WordPress. Build- Completely new autoblogs can be built for WordPress for PNBs or as satellite sites. Curate- Engaging content can be curated for the readers that helps to boost the SEO and also interests the readers. Autopost All Things- Menu content sources are supported by WP Robot.

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Some of the sources are Amazon, YouTube, Eventful, RSS, etc. Compatible- The plugin is compatible with all kinds of WordPress themes. autoblogged plugin. International Support- Autoblogging can be done in many languages such as German, French, Chinese, etc. Automatic translation- This feature is integrated with spinning software which helps to create automatic unique content.

Feeds can be imported anywhere in the site. RSS feeds can be integrated with the use of shortcodes and widgtes. Shortcode friendly- The plugin becomes very easy to use using the shortcodes generated by this plugin. Some of the shortcode parameters can be edited which helps the users to define the manner the feeds are displayed on the website.

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Or an image can be selected to display along with the feed. Mobile Friendly- The plugin automatically does caching. So the page loading times becomes simpler. WordAI Integration- Feed can be integrated with post with WordAI (free autoblogging plugin). It helps to rephrase feed content and content is not duplicated over the website.

Referral/affiliate ID is automatically included in the feed link. Feed to Post- Content from various RSS sources can be inserted into the post. The feed items are automatically filtered and the contents are placed in the WordPress site as wanted. -- -- Contents can be posted from various sources to the WordPress site automatically through WordPress Automatic plugin.

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Extract specific parts of original feeds post- Two specified part of original feeds post can be extracted using WordPress automatic by XPath, REGEX and CSS id/class. Duplicate title skip- Previously posted posts with the same title are not duplicated. Convert encoding before posting- Extracted content coding can be converted form any specific encoding to utf-8 so that it becomes compatible with WordPress.

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“Garrett Ecstàsy” (Garrett Marshall McLaughlin) / Torres’ second arrest

(NOTE: The subject of “Garrett Ecstàsy” and Jesus David Torres’ second arrest have been merged into one post, as the incident is directly related to Garrett’s first-hand experience.)

Former “Blood on the Dance Floor” singer, the predecessor of Jayy Von Monroe, was recruited by Jesus David Torres / “Dahvie Vanity” through Myspace in 2008 (aged 18) for uncredited backing vocals (the “screamer”) on the album ‘It’s Hard to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World’, and was later incorporated as the band’s second lead vocalist with Torres, releasing 3 extended plays and one single over the summer of 2009.

Torres Arrested - 09/13/2009 in Denver, CO

On the night of September 12 2009, Torres raped a 15 year old girl on the band’s tour bus before their 6pm “all ages” show at ‘The LifeSpot’ venue in Denver, Colorado. The police were called shortly after and Torres was taken into custody, booked on September 13th.

(BOTDF Myspace 09/12/2009 via WebArchive)

(Garrett’s personal Twitter, during or shortly after Torres’ arrest)

Garrett McLaughlin later described the incident in detail to the Huffington Post in late 2018, extrapolating on the events leading up to Torres’ arrest:

Torres was arrested in 2009, apparently after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her at one of his shows. In a video on BOTDF’s YouTube channel, he later claimed the woman “seemed to have underlying mental issues.” Police took him into custody, then released him.

Witnesses who were present on the night of the alleged incident tell a different story. It was Sept. 12, 2009, and BOTDF was performing in Denver, according to McLaughlin, who was still singing alongside Torres at the time, and a woman named Elyse who did not want to use her full name, who was selling BOTDF merchandise at the show. That night, they said, is what led McLaughlin to quit the band and accuse Torres of pedophilia.

After setting up at the venue, McLaughlin said, he and a friend walked out to the parking lot to hang out in BOTDF’s tour van until the show started. To their surprise, the van had been moved to a location “where it was dark and no one was around.” They opened the door and found Torres inside with two girls who appeared to be “really young” teenagers, he said.

Torres “chased us away. He didn’t want us near the van,” said McLaughlin, who said he then went back inside the venue. Time passed, and it was getting close to show time, but according to McLaughlin, Torres was nowhere to be found, and the tour van was gone. McLaughlin said he was starting to worry that something was wrong, but Torres showed up just in time and the group went onstage.

“We play probably two songs and then the lights come on in the building. The sound gets cut off. We’re done. They won’t let us play. There’s somebody up at the sound stage motioning for us to get off the stage,” said McLaughlin. “In my head I’m just wondering, ‘What did Dahvie do?’”

The band stormed through the crowd to figure out what was going on. Police cars had surrounded the building, and an officer asked Torres for his name, then handcuffed him against a wall, according to McLaughlin and Elyse. Once outside, McLaughlin said, he noticed that one of the girls he’d seen in the van was sitting on the ground, speaking to a police officer and pointing at Torres. She sobbed and said Torres had forced her to perform oral sex, McLaughlin said.

In its story, MetalSucks published an unverified copy of what appears to be an arrest record from a Colorado police department documenting a sexual assault committed by Torres. It’s dated Sept. 13, 2009, the day after BOTDF performed in Denver. HuffPost was unable to verify the document’s legitimacy or confirm if a charge was ever filed. A representative at the Colorado Bureau of Investigations would not say if any arrest records existed in Torres’ name, and noted that sealed court records are not accessible to journalists or the public.

(via Huffington Post)

This is the aforementioned arrest record in question procured by BVTV (”ak99superstar” on Youtube), a local band-news YouTube channel that covered the initial incident and reactions from the fellow bands on the tour following Torres’ arrest.

(Original Youtube Video 11/26/2009 via WebArchive)

The videos about Torres were removed after an agreement was made to do an interview with him. It is unknown if or when this interview actually took place, or if copies of the original videos still exist.

Torres released from police custody - 09/20/2009

After approximately 6 days in police custody, the victim refused to press charges against Torres and he was released to the public.

The refusal for the 15 year old victim to pursue the case against him, including taking a rape kit, is Torres’ primary defense that the allegation against him was illegitimate. As of 04/10/2020 the victim in this case has yet to come forward. However, it is important to keep in mind that there are substantial barriers for pursuing rape charges, especially for young teenagers: the cost of legal defense, the cost of a rape kit and related medical bills (even with insurance), and the prospect of revisiting the assault multiple times in court are common reasons for victims to drop their cases.

On September 21, 2009 he made a blog post to his Myspace talking about the situation.

(Myspace post via WebArchive)

Upon his release, Torres was banned from performing the remaining dates on the ‘OMFG Tour’. Garrett and the other bands on the tour, including ‘Electric Valentine’ and ‘Weston Buck’, concluded the tour without him in lieu of cancelling. (Videos: Garrett performs shows without Torres [1] [2] [3] [4])

Torres was released from police custody on September 20th, immediately taking to Myspace to denounce Garrett.

Torres Slanders Garrett

Immediately following his release from police custody, Torres posted a blog entry to the band’s Myspace account proclaiming that Garrett had been “kicked out” of Blood on the Dance Floor for various offenses.

He alleges that Garrett was a frequent user of unspecified drugs, “stole” the band’s tour van, “stole” Blood on the Dance Floor from him by performing the remaining shows without him, deleted unreleased recordings, “wrecked” the tour van, and “stole” money from him and the band.

(Original Myspace via WebArchive)

Due to Myspace’s degradation over the years, and the lack of a WebArchive entry, the link to Garrett’s original testimonial/response to this post on Myspace no longer is accessible. However, the text was mirrored on an unrelated party’s blogspot (now defunct):

There are still surviving tweets online from Garrett regarding the post on his now-abandoned Twitter account:

Electric Valentine reached out to this archive on Twitter with screenshots of Torres threatening them over text messages after being kicked off the tour.

References to the case in Torres’ videos

Torres has made multiple “response” videos in the past that attempt to address this particular arrest. Due to the lack of accessible information, he claims that this is the one and only case ever brought against him, and further relies on the common misinformation that the victim in this case was either Damien Leonhardt (“Jessi Slaughters”), a “17 year old” with “mental issues” - alleging that the victim was within age-of-consent laws due to perceived inaccessibility of the information about the case, and that the refusal for the victim to pursue further charges is automatically an admission of the allegation being “false”.

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jjpocketbook · 5 years

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Do High DA Backlinks From Blog Comments Help Rankings?

If you have ever left a comment on NeilPatel.com, you’ll notice that there is no URL field.

Why?

Well, a few years ago, blog commenting exploded. I was literally getting thousands of spam comments a day from people just leaving a comment for the purpose of link building instead of providing value to the community.

Sure, there are spam plugins like Akismet, but it doesn’t catch everything.

Now, most blog comments contain the nofollow attribute in which they tell Google not to follow the link or drive any “SEO value” to that URL.

But still, people still leave blog comments for the purpose of link building.

So, over the past 7 months, I’ve been running an interesting experiment to answer the age-old question…

Do backlinks from blog comments actually help rankings?

Experiment rules

First off, for this experiment, we used “domain score,” which is similar to domain authority.

If you want to know your domain score, the backlinks report in Ubersuggest will tell you what it is.

With this experiment, I sent out an email to a part of my list looking for participants and had 794 websites apply.

From there, I set the following criteria:

English-only sites – It’s easier to rank on many of Google’s international search engines even without building links. I removed non-English speaking sites as I didn’t want to skew the results.

Low-authority sites – I removed any website with a domain score greater than 20 and any site with more than 20 backlinks. The reason being is when a site has a lot of authority, they tend to rank easily for new keywords, even if they don’t build any new links.

No subdomains – I didn’t want a WordPress.com site, a Blogspot site, or even a Tumblr site. Again, this would skew the results so I removed them.

After eliminating the sites that didn’t meet the above criteria, I was left with 314 sites.

Of those 314 sites, many dropped off because they didn’t complete the required work on their part (which was to write a blog post), so I was left with 183 sites at the end that participated.

How the experiment worked

Similar to my previous link building experiment and my on-page SEO experiment, I had these websites write a 1,800 to 2,000-word blog post on whatever subject that was relevant to their site.

The websites had 2 weeks to publish their content and then after 30 days, I looked up their URL in Ubersuggest to see how many keywords each URL ranked for in the top 100 spots, top 50, spots, and top 10 spots.

As I have mentioned in the past, Ubersuggest has a big database of keywords. We are currently tracking 1,459,103,429 keywords.

Now, most of these keywords are barely searched but a decent amount of them get hundreds, if not thousands, of searches per month. A much smaller percentage of keywords generate hundreds of thousands or even millions of searches per month.

In other words, the majority of the keywords people are searching for are long-tail phrases.

We then spent a month building links and then waited another 3 months to see what happened to each site’s rankings.

But here’s the thing: We didn’t build the same type of links to all sites. Instead, we broke the 183 sites into 4 groups (roughly 46 sites per group).

Here were the groups:

Control – we didn’t build any links to these sites, we just wanted to see what happened to their rankings over time with no focus on link building.

Nofollow high domain score blog comment links – with this group, we built 10 links through blog comments. The links pointed to the newly written post and they were from blogs that had a domain score of 50 or higher and they all contained a nofollow attribute.

Dofollow high domain score blog comment links – with this group, we built 5 links through blog comments. The links pointed to the new post and were dofollow from blogs with a domain score of 40 or higher. (I reduced the domain score criteria for this category and the link quantity as we struggled to find a large number of high authority blogs that pass link juice in the comment section.)

Dofollow low domain score blog comment links – with this group, we built 10 links through blog comments. Each link pointed back to the article and it was from a blog that contains a domain score of at least 20 but no higher than 39. (I was able to build more links here as there are many more low domain score blogs than high domain score ones.)

Keep in mind with the link building for groups 2, 3 and 4, there was no specific anchor text agenda. Because the links were built through blog comments, it was too hard to control the anchor text as we didn’t want to be spammy.

And each comment left on the blog contained at least 75 words as we wanted to ensure that each comment provided value and the core purpose wasn’t just link building.

Alright, so let’s dive into the results.

Control group

Do you really need links to rank on Google? Well, the chart below says a lot…

As you can see over time, you will naturally grow your search rankings even if you don’t build any links.

Of course, if your content is amazing and you do on-page SEO, you’ll rank higher, but still not growing your link count doesn’t mean you will rank for anything out there… instead, you will still rank for long-tail terms that aren’t too competitive.

Nofollow high domain score blog comment links

Now the results from this group were interesting…

As you can see, the sites in this group had better results than the control group even though the links were nofollowed.

Keep in mind, though, that it could be many variables that caused this, such as the content quality may have been better.

Overall, the sites did perform better than the control group but not by a substantial amount.

Dofollow high domain score blog comment links

Google is sophisticated, they are able to know if a link is from user-generated content (such as blog comments), so I assumed even though the links where dofollow they still wouldn’t have much (if any) impact.

But, shockingly, sites in this group had the largest gains.

As you can see from the chart above, links from high authority sites, even if it is through user-generated content, help with rankings. They just have to be dofollow.

Dofollow low domain score blog comment links

With this last group, we were able to build more dofollow links because we focused on sites with lower authority.

And as you can see from the chart above, it did help with rankings more than building nofollow links but it didn’t help nearly as much as getting links from blogs with higher domain scores.

We built 10 links instead of 5, but the quantity didn’t help as much as having high domain score links. This group increased their rankings by 337% versus 828% that group 3 experienced even though they had half the links.

Again, we still saw gains, just not as large as the previous group.

Conclusion

Who would have thought that building links through blog comments still helps?

Now, if you are going to use this tactic, you’ll want to focus on blogs that have dofollow comments.

If you aren’t sure how to find them, you can perform a Google search for the following:

“title=”CommentLuv Enabled”” KEYPHRASE – this will showcase blogs that have CommentLuv enabled which means they pass link juice.

“dofollow blogs” – you find a lot of blog articles listing out blogs that have dofollow links. Some of them look like this but you will have to double-check each site as many are nofollow even though bloggers claim they are dofollow.

Followlist – this is a directory of blogs that have dollow links.

When building links, focus on higher domain scores as it has a bigger impact on rankings.

In addition to that, you’ll only want to leave a comment if you can provide value. Don’t stress the anchor text, focus on the quality of your comment as you don’t want to be a spammer.

Posting spammy links will just cause your comment to be removed.

Lastly, don’t just leave a valuable comment for the sake of generating a link. Make sure it is on relevant blogs as well. And if that means the blog doesn’t have as high of a domain score that’s fine because the data above shows that even low domain score links still help (just not as much).

So, have you thought about leaving more comments on other blogs? It’s a great way to get your brand out there, generate referral traffic, and boost your rankings.

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Do High DA Backlinks From Blog Comments Help Rankings?

If you have ever left a comment on NeilPatel.com, you’ll notice that there is no URL field.

Why?

Sure, there are spam plugins like Akismet, but it doesn’t catch everything.

Now, most blog comments contain the nofollow attribute in which they tell Google not to follow the link or drive any “SEO value” to that URL.

But still, people still leave blog comments for the purpose of link building.

So, over the past 7 months, I’ve been running an interesting experiment to answer the age-old question…

Do backlinks from blog comments actually help rankings?

Experiment rules

First off, for this experiment, we used “domain score,” which is similar to domain authority.

If you want to know your domain score, the backlinks report in Ubersuggest will tell you what it is.

With this experiment, I sent out an email to a part of my list looking for participants and had 794 websites apply.

From there, I set the following criteria:

No subdomains – I didn’t want a WordPress.com site, a Blogspot site, or even a Tumblr site. Again, this would skew the results so I removed them.

After eliminating the sites that didn’t meet the above criteria, I was left with 314 sites.

Of those 314 sites, many dropped off because they didn’t complete the required work on their part (which was to write a blog post), so I was left with 183 sites at the end that participated.

How the experiment worked

Similar to my previous link building experiment and my on-page SEO experiment, I had these websites write a 1,800 to 2,000-word blog post on whatever subject that was relevant to their site.

As I have mentioned in the past, Ubersuggest has a big database of keywords. We are currently tracking 1,459,103,429 keywords.

In other words, the majority of the keywords people are searching for are long-tail phrases.

We then spent a month building links and then waited another 3 months to see what happened to each site’s rankings.

But here’s the thing: We didn’t build the same type of links to all sites. Instead, we broke the 183 sites into 4 groups (roughly 46 sites per group).

Here were the groups:

Control – we didn’t build any links to these sites, we just wanted to see what happened to their rankings over time with no focus on link building.

And each comment left on the blog contained at least 75 words as we wanted to ensure that each comment provided value and the core purpose wasn’t just link building.

Alright, so let’s dive into the results.

Control group

Do you really need links to rank on Google? Well, the chart below says a lot…

As you can see over time, you will naturally grow your search rankings even if you don’t build any links.

Nofollow high domain score blog comment links

Now the results from this group were interesting…

As you can see, the sites in this group had better results than the control group even though the links were nofollowed.

Keep in mind, though, that it could be many variables that caused this, such as the content quality may have been better.

Overall, the sites did perform better than the control group but not by a substantial amount.

Dofollow high domain score blog comment links

But, shockingly, sites in this group had the largest gains.

As you can see from the chart above, links from high authority sites, even if it is through user-generated content, help with rankings. They just have to be dofollow.

Dofollow low domain score blog comment links

With this last group, we were able to build more dofollow links because we focused on sites with lower authority.