This blog just crossed the 500,000 page view threshold. Cool.
As I said in the post a couple of days ago, I don't know where the big chunks of page views are coming from. This has been happening over the last 1 1/2 to two years, maybe. This blog has 1,062 posts, but there are a few I started and never finished, so the real number is 1,050 to 1,055 published posts, just on this blog. This blog has about 200,000 or so "normal" page views, which is damn good for a weird, niche blog. Then it has around 300,000 page views that have come in big chunks, thousands in a day, from around the world. Bots? AI searches? People using VPN's to check it out? Something else? I don't know.
On all the blogs I've done since my first, really lame, taxi blog in 2007, I've written somewhere over 2,800 blog posts, most pretty meaty, at least 400-500 words, sometimes more than 1,000 words. Those assorted blogs have pulled in over 800,000 total page views. For all intents and purposes, I've made almost no money off of all of that writing. I have a handful of people that support me on Patreon, about $65 a month total, for a year and a half or so. A number of people have given me small amounts here and there, mostly because I've been homeless much of the time I've been blogging. I really do appreciate that support, and I thank all of you who have read my posts, and helped me out.
I have sold well over 100 Sharpie Scribble Style drawings, many of them to readers of this blog, over the last ten years. But that income isn't directly from the blog itself. I've written all these posts because I enjoy doing them, and because I wasn't able to find "a real job" for many years, after working as a taxi driver. So I had a lot of time on my hands.
I'm building up my Substack site, which is designed to actually earn money as a writer, and I'm working to earn a decent income from that, at some point. I will shamelessly ask all of you for your support on Substack (probably about $7 a month or so) when I can get a bank account, and the other things needed to get the paid subscriptions working.
Thanks again for checking out my blog! Again, I don't know where these big groups of views are coming from, but the counter hit half a million. I'll keep adding a post now and then here, as I write mostly on Substack. So check out my Substack for longer, in depth posts on a bunch of different subjects.
Click on "No thanks" on the first page, to see the latest posts. If you subscribe for free, it just means each post will come directly into your email. I appreciate all subscribers, and when the paid subscription option happens, there will still be lots of stuff to view for free, but some posts and series will be for subscribers only.
Right when I noticed the number of views, we had a little earthquake, a 2.7, right under this part of The Valley. It felt like someone picked up the library a couple inches and dropped it. I'll take that as a thumbs up from the Earth on hitting a big blog milestone. Thanks again... enough babbling... onward!
Steve Emig
The White Bear
June 24, 2025
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