If there is one thing that you should know about me, it’s that I love the Internet. Yet up until this year, I was a nobody on the web. Yet somehow my Internet popularity seems to have grown on Tumblr, Deviantart and Youtube.
One of the main reasons for my rise in views were the friends I made earlier this year. For example, I had had a Youtube account and a Deviant account since I was in middle school and they hardly got any page views. I posted things, yet they never seemed to get popular, usually only gaining about one hundred views if that. What happens is that make some new friends at an anime convention that I go to. Now, when I try to find them on Deviantart I realize that they are super popular (I am talking thousands of page views and hundreds of followers). Never the less I wasn’t surprised when I saw their art, which far suppressed mine. One of them convinced me to get a Tumblr. At first I hesitated because I didn’t even know what a Tumblr was. Finally I caved in and created one. Not only were my friends popular and well known on Deviantart but they also happened to be well known on Tumblr!
I cosplayed (which is basically dressing up as characters from anime, manga, cartoons, video games etc) with these friends a lot and we even had a couple of photo shoots. Now when my friends would edit the photos and upload them to Deviantart or Tumblr, they would label who was in the photo with our accounts (Tumblr and Deviantart). Suddenly I would have a mass amount of page views, favorites/reblogs and followers/watchers appeared on both my Deviantart and Tumblr. I also created a handful of Youtube videos that contained my cosplays. I would post my videos on my Tumblr and my friends would reblog them. Suddenly I would get a slew of notifications about how people were reblogging and liking my videos. Soon my Youtube videos gained a lot of views.
Another way that I gained a lot of followers is to get into fandoms right before their peak of popularity. At the moment I have been into Homestuck for a while and my friends and I were into it before it hit its peak of popularity. I was into Homestuck and cosplaying it this spring and its popularity peaked this summer. So when people went to search for Homestuck things, they often came across my friends’ (and some of mine) stuff (art, videos, cosplay ect).
While I am still obviously not the most popular person on the Internet I have still definitely raised in my Internet ranks over the past year. So these are a few tips I can give to people who want to get some Internet popularity.
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