#bedolphin

why did I decide to create this blog

i decided to start a blog because me and a close friend used to have a shared blog but I was the only person doing stuff for it, posting, creating pages, drawing the icon etc. And I knew I wanted our blog to be something more than it was but the other person wasn’t after that so I created phoebe-does. A blog to keep me motivated, document my thoughts and experiences as a young adult and student. I wanted to meet like minded people and hopefully help people through similar experiences. 

difficulties?

My blog was created in 2016 and only started getting ‘popular’? I guess? This year. I reached 200 followers this year, then 500, then 1k until now when I have over 5k followers. It was really really slow until now, not gonna lie. I guess because I was so focused on fitting the ‘studyblr’ mould that I didn’t post all the stuff I wanted to, not my poetry, not my words of inspiration or advice, I was stuck with the aesthetics. 

how to find your audience

Once I started posting all the stuff I wanted and tagging larger blogs in the community I was very fortunate to have some of my text posts picked up by larger blogs so my blog grew quite quickly. I love having all you guys to engage with but not gonna lie, with the growth and following comes hate. The hate commenters don’t realise that I’m a person? That I read what they say and it really does effect me when I’m already not in a good headspace? I legitimately thought of deleting my blog, not too long ago. I didn’t like how obsessive I had become and how much some of the words left on my blog effected me. 

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