Rage Against Flower Porn
I LOVE FLOWERS 💘 I really do! And i will show you the most beautiful flowers you will see today!
🌻 They were all mine Ⓒ — given to me on my 42nd birthday 🎂
The very next day I took pictures. Now they are dead.
Enjoy!
And thanks again for watching and for making it so far out!
Now this will get a little bit controversial. While I TRULY LOVE FLOWERS, i actually HATE to see so many flower porn posts [FPPs] getting huge rewards on steemit. I know this will put some of people off, but i have to go on with my ƦĄnⓉ and i will tell you why i think posting flowers is bad and lame for everyone.
But let's get this straight first: Who am I to tell you to stop posting flowers on a platform that is supposed to be uncencorable? Everybody should just go on posting what she/he/it wants, period. But i would love to see the value of flower photography posts [FPP] diminish and adjust to its real value or less.
What i want you to consider is:
Flowers are bad for you
Refrain from upvoting posts that contains mediocre flower porn
Flower Porn Posts [FPPs] are bad for all of us
Adjust your bots and trails, stop circle jerking on flowers
Keep calm and avoid flowers
Here's why:
Flowers are lame, because:
- it's a low hanging fruit. it's just too easy to head to the park and snap some lilies. Yes, it's a little bit more clever than cloud-mining bitcoins, but not that much. The Flower Porn Reserve [FPR] will dry out soon. Try harder.
- Flowers can't move, they don't have issues, always pretty. It's an easy target to get. Everybody can do it. You can do better and you have to — because soon anybody will do better than this. It's called competition and flowers don't compute very well.
- There's not very much value to a scroll of flower porn pictures, because information density is low. After all what can/do flowers tell us?
- Actually, a picture of a flower in the year 2017 will tell us only this: "I used to be just a beautiful flower, but i became an asset on a social blockchain network [SBN] thanks to some bloke who gambled my devine beauty for rewards. It didn't work out."
Flower Porn Posts [FPPs] are bad for all of us because:
- It will hurt steem's price badly when somebody finds out that 12.4% of a $970 million market cap is backed by ordinary flower porn pics [FPPs]
- There's not much value to random mediocre flower shots. It puts people off when they see that sub-quality content is highly rewarded. It makes steemit look like a scam.
- Indeed it makes the look of Steemit quite offputting to a designer's/artist's/photographer's eye.
- Flowers suck up the reward pool and prevent great, truly original content to be rewarded accordingly.
There's evidence that flowers don't pay out
- Have you ever tried to apply for art school or to a photo competition with your flower power shots? No? Lucky you, because flowers are the number one disqualifier.
- Ever heard of Tulip Mania? It was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which prices for tulips reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed. True story, says Wikipedia
- Last time i checked my timelines on instagram, twitter, facebook and medium i haven't seen ANY flowers at all. I hardly see any flowers anywhere on the web. Maybe that makes steemit special. If that's true we live in a flower bubble. Good luck and thanks for the fish.
- Flowers may trick you. They may make you believe that the man on the picture below is out of his mind. But although he's wearing a suit with tulips printed on, the guy is actually very smart, witness, and steemfest organizer!
What you can do to stop the Flower Porn Bubble [FPB]
Step back from FPPs
Stop upvoting flowers, it inflates the bubble
Don't ask what a flower can do for you, ask yourself what makes flowers flourish
Pay someone to give you a bouquet of flowers and make someone else happy
Flowers ARE beautiful: Go out and smell, eat and kill them but refrain from 📵 and 📷 . (There's already enough)
Post whatever you want, but please stop putting "HQ", "High Quality" or "Original" in title or the body of your post
Make people aware. If appropriate comment on flower posts with the STOP FLOWER PORN Badge provided below
Be alert. Watch out for bubbles.
STOP FLOWER PORN original high quality badge for anyone to use
🌻🌻🌻 THANK YOU FOR THE FLOWERS 🌻🌻🌻
Sorry for this, it had to be said.
All the best,
📵 Shot at my studio using my good old mirrorless
DSLR MicroFourThird™ LUMIX GH2 with the 20mm f/1.7 Pancake