This honestly won't even change much. I rarely got comments in the first place, and the few I got were about 90% just me making extra announcements which I can make in posts, and 10% occasional song suggestions or inoffensive remarks from other bloggers which we can live without. Most of the general questions or announcements for the whole community, and most of the spam, has always just been under Ethan's blog.
I will also not comment on other blogs anymore, unless I ever have an announcement that involves the community as a whole that I couldn't just post about on my own blog. Really the only situation I think that would truly be the case is if I decided to change my blog URL again, which is unlikely. Yeah, I may be overreacting since I've already been such a "distant" blogger, but I just want to make this final.
Well, why am I doing this now?
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We've had a sort of rapid "rise and fall" of the Hits 1 blogging community in just a couple weeks. I know these were just basic anonymous comments, but I've actually been thinking really hard about how last week's countdown post on Ethan's SiriusXM Hits 1 & Music Blog had a comment that said "love how active this blogging community is recently", and then this week's post on the same blog said "this community is in shambles and needs to be fixed". I would say it's currently in a state of being both of those things at the same time.
The comments section of Ethan's music blog is very telling of the current state of the infamously chaotic Hits 1 blogging community. Of course, a majority of it is still the relatively harmless trolling, like people spamming comments claiming to be "Sabrina Carpenter" and whatnot. That's been going on for a long time and I don't really mind that, as long as it doesn't go out of hand. But there's also a bit of drama going on between bloggers, who as far as I'm aware don't even know each other in real life. I won't say any names here, but if you're reading this as a H1BC member, you probably know what I'm talking about. And I know I'm probably slightly misinterpreting what's going on since I'm very much on the outside of it all, but I want to stay out of drama as well as I can. I felt as if turning off comments would be best considering the current state of the community.
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...so here's the thing I'm trying to get across. To be quite honest, I kinda want to be my own separate thing from the "Hits 1 blogging community". I'd be fine with having my blog linked on Hits 1 blog sidebars just to help with pageviews, and I might still submit to... whatever events or games are held by H1BC members, which are few and far between now that it's become increasingly common for bloggers such as myself to opt out of using Discord. I just don't want to be associated with something that's "in shambles" or seem like I'm somehow a part of a feud.
I know that this is somewhat of a risky move, but don't take it the wrong way please. I'm not saying the H1BC is an inherently negative or hateful community or that I am personally on bad terms with anyone within it, and I really don't want this to be my downfall as a blogger. The whole point is I really want to stay neutral. If this ever escalates to a point where it's affecting my mental health and I feel like I need to go on indefinite hiatus, so be it. For now, I'll blog for fun, comment-free, under an anonymous title, pleasantly sharing my favorite music, but I won't consider myself within the H1BC. I mean, I've literally only made one Hits 1 post in the past half-year so I was already not really a Hits 1 blogger. I'm an AllTheHits blogger and that feels better to me.
Oh yeah, also for that very reason, I'm discontinuing the Blogger Top Ten. Literally after one installment. Yes, I know you're all getting deja vu to the 2024 days when I couldn't hold up a regular series for the life of me, but now you can't come at me for it. I was actually already considering that since I'll soon have even less time for posting. But I really liked the concept so I'll gladly support if anyone in the H1BC wants to pick up the series where I left off.
Again, don't take this the wrong way. That's all for now.
