• Erasing My Awful Book From The History of the Internet
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[video=youtube;tyQAVqf8jnA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQAVqf8jnA[/video]
Oh my :v: that was quite the effort put into covering up his past! I wonder if anyone else has ever had to go through such lengths and hop through such hoops to cover up embarrassing memories
I don't get though why he went to such great lengths to something he doesn't give a shit about
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;52913585]I don't get though why he went to such great lengths to something he doesn't give a shit about[/QUOTE] Search Engine Optimisation. He wants the top Google search for him to be what he's working on now and what he wants you to see, not some low quality work from his past.
[QUOTE=Rossy167;52913587]Search Engine Optimisation. He wants the top Google search for him to be what he's working on now and what he wants you to see, not some low quality work from his past.[/QUOTE] Surely there are better and cheaper ways of achieving that the reason he gave multiple times in the video was that he was really afraid that someone would read it and make a video about it?? which sound really silly to me I mean, why not just make a video where he talks about this weird book he wrote as a kid and maybe reads a few paragraphs to his audience No one would mean-spiritly make fun of him because they would see he doesn't really care
[QUOTE=WhyNott;52914192]Surely there are better and cheaper ways of achieving that the reason he gave multiple times in the video was that he was really afraid that someone would read it and make a video about it?? which sound really silly to me I mean, why not just make a video where he talks about this weird book he wrote as a kid and maybe reads a few paragraphs to his audience No one would mean-spiritly make fun of him because they would see he doesn't really care[/QUOTE] because in his luck, he'd then have a search for his name showing an amazon listing for his objectively worst work that he hates, followed by a youtube of the author reading from said book, which at a glance is a shitty full-of-himself-author thing to do, along with emphasizing that the book is somehow still relevant that publisher post was out-SEOing his current stuff thanks to being on amazon and having existed so long, I'm sure he tried a lot of basic stuff to push his new content up before realizing it was a problem
[QUOTE=dai;52914296]because in his luck, he'd then have a search for his name showing an amazon listing for his objectively worst work that he hates, followed by a youtube of the author reading from said book, which at a glance is a shitty full-of-himself-author thing to do, along with emphasizing that the book is somehow still relevant that publisher post was out-SEOing his current stuff thanks to being on amazon and having existed so long, I'm sure he tried a lot of basic stuff to push his new content up before realizing it was a problem[/QUOTE] The story also made a fairly interesting video, so there's that.
[QUOTE=WhyNott;52914192]Surely there are better and cheaper ways of achieving that the reason he gave multiple times in the video was that he was really afraid that someone would read it and make a video about it?? which sound really silly to me I mean, why not just make a video where he talks about this weird book he wrote as a kid and maybe reads a few paragraphs to his audience No one would mean-spiritly make fun of him because they would see he doesn't really care[/QUOTE] I have a feeling he started simply enough, trying to pull the publishing, but then after all the effort involved he may have switched gears and realized he could use the story to profit. [editline]22nd November 2017[/editline] Hence the purchase of the exorbitantly expensive used copies.
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