This calls for a major celebration

Monica Talbot
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This calls for a major celebration
This calls for a major celebration

I finally...FINALLY... got to 9000 followers. It happened earlier today, and the 9000th one has been notified about the massive amount of prize money coming their way. (He/She will remain anonymous so as not to attract unwanted attention from scammers).

This is all very ephemeral because the way follower counts work is, you get a couple of new ones, then one or two others unfollow (maybe they drop their Flickr accounts, or die, or both). That cycle basically repeats, thus the slow accumulation.

Unless you're one of those rare 'pocket lint girls', e.g. the type that can post a picture of just about anything (like a handful of pocket lint) and they immediately get hundreds if not thousands of comments, new followers, etc. I'm not a pocket lint girl and never will be. My pockets are fairly clean.

Of course focussing on the number of followers is totally absurd and a waste of time, which is why I pay attention to it. I admit that, at the core of it, I'm pretty absurd. But one can either regret it, or celebrate & wallow in their own absurdity. It's a personal choice.

One more thing about followers: It's my assumption that some of mine are truly dead, but didn't cancel their Flickr accounts before shuffling off their mortal coil. So, if I claim 9000 followers and some of them are likely dead, am I involved in 'follower fraud', and will Trump followers and others in the Republican party call in the dogs on me??

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Taken on: January 14, 2023
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