Transcash: use at your own risk

There are so many scams where transcash is involved, that the only recommendations would really to be 

once transcash is introduced as a mode of payment, just walk away.

Artbreeder: playing with an Artificial Intelligence

Artbreeder is a website where people can visually discover the true potential of Artificial Intelligence

Through the creation of portraits, paintings, album cover, landscape

It is very intuitive, very addictive and all the production made on this website are public domain - plenty of fun

Internet Gem: Emily Carroll

She needs no introduction

Amazing visual artist 

go directly to her website

and Enjoy!

Emily Carroll

http://emcarroll.com/comics/worthington/

Blog, microblogging, and returning for more

Blogging used to be the king way to publish content on the Internet back in the 2000s

Historically, wordpress, blogger, livejournal, and all these platforms used to be receiving enthusiastic bloggers daily content, that would start great exchange of ideas, experiences, tutorials, and that precluded the arrival of the game changer that was youtube

Blogs were superior because - they were searchable, using keywords

youtube videos - are searchable via keywords too - but when there is a 2 hours lecture of Tom Campbell, I don't think you could retrieve a particular video by typing a sentence you heard, and remembered - because it is a video and searching text within a video is not yet possible.

Currently writing in blogger.com seems to be like typing in an empty place - the blogger.com platform is not well designed for exchange.

How do you end up on this blog? probably via a google search

well, once you (reader) have found the content you were looking for, you leave and never come back

That is where the second game changer has arrived, facebook

This social platform from 2010 - is more like a microblogging platform - you can spend your entire day there on facebook and type 2 lines updates or post a meme, and leave - but then the next day most people are returning ; because their friends are there, their family and that will push them to come back.

Nobody has a family setting up a blog for each member, and typing their life experience, and exchanging there - because it is not a forum.

Wordpress now is that blogging social platform, that looks a bit like a cross between blogger.com and facebook - from there you can set up a reading list, add new content, but also like and reblog from other blogs you are following ...

Instagram too, in a way is enabling such social platform where the content (photo) is king - and allowing the exchange between users.

for more How to Write Great Blog Content

Blogger is kind of dead

Try googling content from blogger.com or blogspot.com

using a syntax like 'keyword -site:blogspot.com' and see what is coming up

Remember google wave, google plus ...

Feels like blogger is about to go down - that is just a feeling, but let's just say

that most of the blogger.com content is either spam, or plain crap

myMix: Most of them are gone

Remember this post from a long time ago?

https://blogmymix.blogspot.com/2010/07/blonde-girls-and-internet-celebrities.html

Back in 2010, I was posting an article on the current state of the 'promising' youtubers

and had selected a few people predicting that they would never fail ...

Turns out that they have mostly abandoned their youtube channel

Marina Orlova (hotforword) has reached her apex 6 years ago (2015) and stopped her channel - she is now on Onlyfan - the channel is still up with 387K subscribers ... 

Lisa Nova same (Joined Jun 5, 2006 / 115,477,155 views) no video since 2011

Zuzana Spear / Zuzka Light  the fitness girl from Czech Republic is no longer on the original channel BodyRockTV 

but Zuzka has started a successful new channel https://www.youtube.com/user/ZuzkaLight

(Joined Dec 17, 2011 / 107,877,425 views) - where she is very active!

Cristina Rad (http://www.youtube.com/user/ZOMGitsCriss) - last video is from 2 years ago (2018) and she barely post anymore.

Lux Kassidy (http://www.youtube.com/user/AskAPet) the channel does not exist anymore

The only exception - is Lilou Mace (http://www.youtube.com/user/liloumace) 184K subscribers

Specialized in Spirituality,  New Age, Law of attraction, Lilou is a French-American author, her mission: to help her audience to improve their awareness and she is still active -  last video was from 5 days ago!

Go Lilou!!!

Featuring: Vera Bambi

Vera Bambi is an influencer, vlogger, model, and cosplayer living in Toronto / Los Angeles / Las Vegas

She has become quite popular online back in 2010-2015 ; Thanks to many sexy cosplays, including Princess Peach, Vampirella and Harley Quinn. 

In 2021 She has more than 871+ followers on Instagram.

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https://www.instagram.com/verabambilive/ (871+ K followers)

https://www.instagram.com/verabambibeauty/ (83+ K followers)

https://verabambi.com/

https://twitter.com/verabambilive (137+ K followers)

Hotforword: latest update

 

In a nutshell:

More revelations in this video - the good, the bad and the ugly

From there, readers will be able to more or less see what happened

all videos from her channel ceased 6 years ago (2015) 

she may have gotten married around that time

during the pandemic 2020 - something bad happened (separation, divorce?)

Then some strange, weird controversial videos were posted (and later removed)

Now in 2021, Marina is back on Instagram and OnlyFan (her new favorite platform)

Hotforword video update

 

That must have been just before ... things turned bad

Hotforword: Marina Orlova - where is she now?

I want to talk about this old post of mine - the thing about this blog is that it has been around for more than 15 years, and following through some influencers online careers is always proved to be ... entertaining, surprising, 

Back in July 2010 - this was posted here https://blogmymix.blogspot.com/2010/07/blonde-girls-and-internet-celebrities.html

Marina Orlova (http://www.youtube.com/user/hotforwords) Channel Views: 20,560,475
Marina is hosting one of the most popular channels - Her mission is to teach her audience proper English. Also worth mentioning that she's Russian, single, very smart and she's not blonde anymore (pretty ironic).

Turns out that Marina (hotforword) has completely stopped her promising youtube channel 6 years ago...

And that make a lot of people sad pandas

From her wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Orlova_(YouTuber)

Marina was on the road for success - so what happened?

Marina also became a Meme - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/marina-orlova-hot-for-words

and from that page readers can discover sadly that things did not turn so well, in 2018, and 2020 for the celebrity - a difficult divorce, substance abuse, we will never know for sure

Where is she now?

 - Instagram and Onlyfan (find the link yourself for that one)

Building an audience with Instagram

Success does not come overnight on Instagram

there are no miracle secrets that will propulse you to the top of the influencers sphere

but there are ways to climb the top - these are not secret, but discipline

First you need to find your niche (comics, cyber, cosplay, watercolor, acrylics, modeling, photography, landscape, aquatics, sea landscape, mountain, sports, bodybuilding, cosmetics and so on) and once you're set - keep that direction and post good content.

What will make your instagram account pop in the middle of all these daily posts - (there are close to 100 million photos and videos shared on Instagram each day)

The biggest tip would be to post daily, and post frequently - one post each day and all days around 2pm GMT 

Then tag people you know - then tag influencers, if they are nice, they will post your photo in their story - that will help immensely

Then comment in the other photos of the people in the same niche, industry where you are working

After that, tweak your content a bit - according to the reaction of the public

Check your statistics, engage with the commenters, engage via direct messages (but do not harass anyone).

Be nice, kind and post good content daily - just one post

Avoid spamming, posting like 10 photos in a row and then nothing for a week - that won't work.

Follow closely trends, and the news - see what hashtag is trending, and try to be in the pioneers wave - once the trend is dying, find a new trend.

Collaborate as much as possible in cool projects - there are some hashtags that will open 'challenges' daily for fun content - one of them is #dtiys (draw it your style) if you are a graphic artist, this might help you get new viewers.

Instagram most followed accounts

Number 1 is Cristiano Ronaldo he has currently (2021-03) 268m followers 

Actually the real number 1 is instagram.com with 388m followers

...

and possibly in the top 50 there is Daniella Chavez she has 13.8m followers - Daniella is a Chilean playboy model

why is there a connection between them?

well, yes there is

daniellachavezofficial Verified on Instagram with 13.8m followers

 

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free.fr: Connection Error. Mail from this account has not been retrieved since 11/5/20. View details

It feels like the French ISP free.fr has closed the mail aliases service - since Nov. 5th 2020

All pop3 free.fr mail aliases imported in gmail are now in error with this message

Connection Error. Mail from this account has not been retrieved since 11/5/20.  View details

The new mail service is https://webmail.free.fr/ and is based on the Zimbra

(the old interface was through imp.free.fr)

ToonMe and ToonApp

Ah, the fun of choosing an avatar for your social media 

there are plenty of offers today - snapchat filters, are pretty amazing

and you must have seen a few avatars already that look cartoonish and it looks like Artificial Intelligence has made enormous progress in face recognition

the result is convincing and so fast

A mobile alternative exists from Lyrebird Studio called ToonApp

Artrage2 : Debian installation

When purchasing a Wacom Bamboo Fun, a few applications are provided among them there's ArtRage 2 from AmbientDesign - 

It works!

Medibang Paint Pro a nice challenger for Clip Studio Paint

Looking for a free equivalent to the old 'Manga Studio version 4' from Smith Micro - because you're nostalgic and don't like the newest version (Clip Studio Paint)

Here is what you're looking

download it from https://medibangpaint.com/en/pc/ 

Application exists for Windows and Android - (not Linux )

A relatively small (116MB) application with powerful features

With Medibang Paint Pro - you will also join a nice community of Mangaka - there are plenty of tutorials, and monthly contests

in their forum - you can then find materials (like background, textures, or even re-usable pictures)

Like Manga Studio - the application is good for line art, black and white comics 

and it is free.

Katybear is now samihainsgh

 Remember Katybear?

She was gone 

but thanks to Instagram she is back as Suicide Girl (sg)

samihainsgh

image credit 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJeVIVIDTms/

soup.io is dead

Soup.io is dead and all the time spent there is gone in smoke

also 2021 has started and January is almost over

Trump is gone for good (hurray!)

and there is a Worldwide lock-down because of covid-19

fun times