Comment by zkmon

Well, all this sounds inspiring, motivational, puristic or platonic etc. But the reality hits. You are connected to the world around you. That means you need to make deals with it, interact with it, please it etc. The feedback (or the lack of it) from the world does affect you. If you don't care about the feedback, then there is no point in posting. Sing it in your shower. So you really expect some future fame. In more likelihood, it may not come. Does it affect you? I know, you have some belief that it will come. But is that belief rational and practical? Does it justify the investment you make right now?

Face it. Blogging, or for that matter any online creative content, is becoming extremely low-rewarding effort. First, no one pays for content any more. Next, they don't even have time to clap, or grasp the quality. And then, there is this AI slop.

About 30 years back, I spent days on an abstract art, perfecting it's shading using only an ink pen. It looked a bit geometric. When I showed it to my college hostel mates, they could not believe it was hand-made. Some of them claimed that they know the instruments which can be used to make it, and dismissed my entire effort.