Yeah, it's a weird title for a caption! Hope you'll come inside and see why I named it that!
Made this for Alexis0919, who is now on the Haven, but started out as a lurker here on this blog, then gave a male/female name in the comment section to receive a personalized caption, then liked it enough to start created her own! Not quite sure I need to explain this one, but if you feel the need to comment on this one, please do! I have a bit of a discussion planned for the rest of this blog post.
Making captions can be an interesting exercise in alchemy.
You can take a decent picture, write up a straight forward syrupy plot with wish-fulfillment elements that never challenges the thought process of the readers, and no sexual context, then post it in the middle of the week .. and it gets 6 comments from people that aren't me, and a total of 9 in all.
Afterwards, you take a photo that inspires a multi-pronged story line with a few different layers of smut and fetish, deception and infidelity, and post it on Friday night, the start of the weekend. Two days later, the view count is half of anything released over the entire week AND has ZERO comments 40 hours later.
It really is a crap shoot to how and why a caption can resonate with people. Maybe the weather was bad on Wesnesday and Thursday and people stayed inside, or they had shitty days at work so they wanted some escape. Or the nuanced story I wrote on Friday ended up reading like a mess of text as it was set unto it's spot in the caption.
Both captions had fantastical settings that most likely will never happen so you can't say that either were relatable to the real world. One had a much more favorable outcome, but how often do we like captions where evil wins out, or the bad guy "wins"?
Don't think I am complaining about not getting comments on one particular caption, as I'm thrilled to get 9 on the other one. I am just so fascinated by the metrics of what makes something popular on my site, and on others as well. And just when I think I find something that works as a formula, and outlier pops up to tear down some part of the equation!
It really is alchemy I think!
Until the other day when I was listening to SiriusXM's 70's station, I thought that Supertramp had done this song. Now I feel bad for this band as I wonder how many others thought the same thing!