The Pitfalls of Writing Online

Path to Manliness
3 min readMay 12, 2021

Most of you won’t relate to this but I’m not writing for you. I’m writing for me.

Content creators, writers, social media influencers all reach a point where you begin “chasing the dragon.” Something magical happens when you first go viral online. The rush of dopamine is surreal. “Whoa! Look how many likes it got!”

This leads to you wanting to get the next high. Getting 100 likes, then 1000 likes, then 1,000 followers. Then 5,000 followers!

You never catch the dragon…

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