Huh

It's funny, you know, posting things to the web. Sometimes you work really hard on things, put a lot of time and attention on them and want to share them with the world, you post them up and no one comes. No one responds. It's like shouting your head off to an empty room.

And then other times, you just do something random and innocent and they flock to it.

I have a video on YouTube, just a minute and a half, of some streets we drove through on the way back from class in Barranquilla. I actually made it because a video I'd posted previous to it was showing some of the really poor areas of the city and I didn't want people watching my channel to freak out that I was down there in such craziness, where there's a full range and high contrast between the wealthy and poor areas of the city. But somehow some site about B'quilla used my video on their front page, and now I have 26,469 views and 84 text comments, most of them fighting about whether the town is any good or not.

Or some of my most viewed pix on flickr are of the Vintage Power Wagons I took sort of on a whim during the rally on the square a couple years ago. I was inspired by the pretty shininess mostly. And big trucks driving up on the wheels of other big trucks is pretty cool too. :)

The thing is, neither of those popular "social objects" (as they call stuff that goes "viral" (relatively speaking, in my case) like that) is part of a genre or theme I'd want to maximize on. They were total one time flukes. Someone subscribing to my content streams expecting to get more of the same would be sorely disappointed.

So then my question is - is my content that I consciously create in hopes of getting a response just not good enough, or have I just not found my audience yet? Or does the world just like big trucks more than music?