You really have to understand what the TG market will bear .. you don't want to seem passé, right?
Made this one for Wendygirl, who I haven't seen online since the end of March, so I'm hoping she's OK. Anyway, I had no real idea what to do with this picture at first, other than I think she'd love to be the model in the photo .. and I thought it'd be a good workplace caption, with its pegboard and locked cabinets lending an employment sort of aura about it all.
And since she's still recovering from her change, I preferred that she didn't talk, and since I wasn't reading some sort of grand eloquent supervillain monologue, I knew that there would have to be two people involved. From there, I figured that there'd be one guy that was the mastermind behind everything, and one that was a complete lackey that didn't bring much to the party. That way, I can have the actual perpetrator gloat over what he's done, while his buddy can be the one who questions his methods and ponder what is going on .. which helps lead the reader to understand, getting the story out as it's understood.
Then I thought of what the overall appeal of the caption is for Wendy, and tried to amplify it beyond the original idea .. one that could be more universally appealing to anyone visiting this blog. This post is the 2,153 one I've put up since I started on August 5, 2010. If I kept posting the same thing over and over, it never would have grown to over 40 million views since. And some posts bomb .. big time! Pregnancy does not seem to be very popular here, even if I do continue to dabble with it occasionally. The 4/20 post from a few days ago ..complete stinker .. worse than the skunk weed your friends smoked when you were 15 years old!
So as mentioned in a few of the last captions, I am trying to keep relevant. I've noticed that more viewers are reading via cell phone now than desktop. Perhaps that is why people are heading over to twitter to make TG "captions". I've never tried, nor wanted to try, viewing my content on a phone until recently .. when I'm out for the weekend, I will sign in through a incognito browser to publish the posting I've written up before hand (this one was written on Thursday night, and hopefully will be posted sometime on Saturday night) .. and I wonder if people are enjoying my work (and understanding the whole gestalt of it all) as much though a small screen.
So, I think this caption works on both levels, in both the story I wanted to tell, and subsequently, how I try to figure out how to stay up to date on how to deliver this content to you, my loyal followers, and also to try to grow the audience and keep our community vital.
If you could humor me, in the comments, please list all the different ways you view TG content. Is it just though blogs like mine? Do you download fiction or captions through Amazon or other content providers? Perhaps, you subscribe to Patreon? Watch videos on Youtube or view TG content on Discord, Twitch, or Twitter? Something else I haven't mentioned? I am definitely curious.
And hey, talking about the caption is fine with me too!