you paid for this: dishing on hellogiggles part I

Blogging was very common and very fun when I was in my early 20s. Nearly everyone I knew had a blog. We were transitioning from the MySpace, LiveJournal, and Xanga days, platforms centered around creativity, writing, and self-expression. I personally believe we'll get back to blogging one day, when we finally realize we want to strip away the noise, the trends, the filters, and get back to yapping about literally whatever we feel like yapping about, damn the algorithm.

I haven't researched it because I'm not a journalist and no one reading this expects me to be, but in my mind, it feels like the websites that I'm about to talk about. Websites like HelloGiggles came from a love of blogging, of sharing personal stories that inspire and resonate with other people. When I was blogging, I shared about dating (a lot) but also about my childhood, my friendships, and pop culture. People really liked the dating content and the pop culture content best.

People still like those things best.