That Douche: The Top 7 Ways to Suck at Blogging Print E-mail
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Written by That Douche   
Thursday, 18 June 2009 00:00

I've tried writing a blog a couple times and failed miserably at it all those times. I'm not that good at blogging (most blogger aren't really that good at it, in my opinion) and thought I could give people tips on how suck at blogging (anybody can tell you how to be good at something, someone needs to start telling people how to suck).
 Let's get started. Here are the Top 7 Ways to Suck at Blogging. Why top 7? Because 11's too goddamn high!

7 - Don't use spell check. 

 Never use speel check. Evver. Poople should have to guess what the hell you're sppelling. Never go back and check to make sure everything's spelled right that's just work and since odds are you're not getting paid to write you're blog so why bother to waste time on something you're NOT getting paid for. Leting people know what words your'er actullly trying to use is for pussy and communists.

6 - ALWAYS USE ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

 All capital letters in type is generally used to let the reader know you're YELLING and ANGRY.  So ALWAYS USE CPITAL LETTERS! Because being ANGRY is cool, just look that those Nerd and Critic guys and every other internet review, they're a picture book example of cool. Here's an example of how cool capital letters are: I GOT A ‘C' ON MY EXAM TODAY. LIFE'S NOT FAIR AND EVERYONE ELSE IS HAPPY EXCEPT ME. STUPID ‘C's. IF ONLY SOMEONE LOVED ME I'LL GET BETTER GRADES. AND MY TEACHER SUCKS. End example. See how cool that person is. They're angry and letting us all know about it. Don't you just feel their pain and the coolest that the pain created? I know I do. In fact when I'm doing writing this I Think I'll write an angry rant (in all capitals) about how I can't unplug by toilet (SO MUCH CLOGGING!).

5 - Don't Do Research. EVER!

When people blog about a current event or something to do with science or political fact they usually do some research some the blog has some creditability. Fuck that. No one needs to know anything about what they're talking about to have an opinion. And again research is work. Why do work for something you're not getting paid for (and if you're getting paid it's probably not a lot)? Just put you're uneducated and bias opinion all over the net. We, the readers, need that. We need to have someone tell us how it is, even if the jackass has not one clue about how the it really is. And don't forgot to write it IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS if it's something that pisses you off.

4 - Force Humor.

Humor is one of the greatest things in the universe. It makes us laugh and forget our horrible lonely lives for a time (or is that just me?). So force humor in every thing you write. No matter how serious the subject (like the War in Iraq, rape, or even the Holocaust) make sure you push some jokes into your blog. People like laughing, mainly at the pain of others. So belittle what ever subject you're doing with a really distasteful joke. When writing something about gay rights remember to squeeze some jokes about butt-sex. Because gays have butt-sex and that's always funny. And don't forget those age old topical references, making fun of people like Paris Hilton and the Jonas Bros. is good for a quick laugh (even if the joke won't be in funny in like a year and a half when everyone has forgotten who the hell they are). There's nothing like having a blogger just shoved humor right down our throats even if the blog has no reason for it.

3 - Always Have the Blog Be About A Negative Experience/Thought.

 Never say anything good about anything. If you're writing blogs about your life and experiences only write about the bad ones. Like when your dog dies or you're being sued for copyright infringement (again, just me?). Or if you write reviews never give a positive review even if the movie/game was good. Tell everyone it sucked and that it pissed you off (anger's cool, remember). Or if you're not comfortable with lying then just review bad movies/games. Never tell people about movies that are actually worth watching and games worth playing. That might be helpful. Never do it.

2 - Give The Reader Too Much Personal Info About Yourself.

Remember when blogging to bring up some really personal information about yourself that no one ever wanted or needed to know. Like the time you having mind blowing sex with your girlfriend and you yelled out your really hot cousin's name. Or how you know how to have a good time with a jar of peanut better and hungry dog. Or some horrible story from your childhood when a trusted adult touched you. When need to know all the really bad and weird shit in your life. That's what's makes you the individual you are today. Share it with the world. The world will hang up and listen.

1 - Make It ALL about YOU.

Make everything you write about you and how good and awesome and right you are. Because you're never wrong. Never the bad guy. Always the victim or the lone hero standing up to an unjust society. You're Jesus. You're Hercules. You're Chuck Norris. You're Elvis. You are all things great and mighty and have to remind us, your servants, every-fucking-day about how cool you are because you told some guy who cut in front of you at the [insert fast food place here] off. Or how you are able summon the will to live even when you get a parking ticket you think you didn't deserve. Or how you're the only person who's right and everyone else is stupid and needs to think YOUR way to have a meaningfully existence. Tell us about your amazing life, like the time you put 50 cents into a soda machine and you got TWO sodas or when you found twenty dollars on the street and blew it on smokes. The world needs all the details of your boring ass life because you are the best gift the world has ever had. You. You. You. No one else. Just you. Self important, egoistically you.

And that's it. Hope this as been helpful to all those who wish to take up blogging. If you follow these 7 tips your blog's sure to SUCK AS HARD as a Twilight book (ha-ha topical humor).

Update: Thank you all for making this be on the Best of Blogs section and for making this one of the most viewed blogs on this site ever. You're all great, well... most of you are great.

-That Douche

Comments (49)
  • shadow20
    And it's all true...

    Good article. =)
  • Coldguy
    :D That would have saved me SO much time back when I was younger...nice to know
    those life lessons are something people can take to heart.
  • Riif-Sa  - That's great
    good stuff... If only bloggers would know...
  • J_Conrady
    Good stuff. The overabundance of Negativity is one of my concerns, especially
    when it's combined with forced humor. I've read a lot of good blogs and seen a
    lot of good videos I think people overlook (or, at least here, don't get as many
    views as they should) and I've read some that have a few hundred and you click
    on it with huge disappointment. I think the catchiness of a title has a lot to
    do with that.

    Oh, this blog entry would be the former. Good post.
  • LittleLottie
    This is why I never blog.... :pinch: :D
  • ChaosD1
    You forgot:

    "Use the blog as a forum intro post"

    Seriously. Nobody cares. It's utterly pointless. If you want to inform people
    about who you are in your first blog, make sure that blog has ACTUAL CONTENT beyond that.

    Otherwise yeah.... although I will admit I've seem some violate a few of these
    rules inexplicably receive praise.
  • ThatDouche
    this isn't my first blog on this site. it's my third. i took my first two off
    this site because they were really bad, their badness inspired this blog.
  • ChaosD1
    Warte mal.

    Is THATwhy I got a thumbs down for that comment? Please don't tell me you thought I was
    talking about you, and this blog...
    Nah, dude. I was in support of this. I was merely adding an item to your list.

    What I'm talking about can be found

    here

    here

    or even

    here.

    I didn't come into this post with those three in mind either. I just put
    "first" into the title search block and found them.

    I'm really not certain how anyone could misconstrue that comment. You obviously
    have content beyond your "hello". How else would you have made BoB?
  • ThatDouche
    i understand now. sorry i misunderstood your comment.
  • Dyson sphere
    Another point comes to my mind, I guess it should be number 8 or so.

    Never read the blog you have just written again closely.

    I am sure, you will never mix-up words. Never even think about the possibility.
    If the spell check does nut find any mistakes, than your text is obviously
    entirely correct.
    Grammar mistakes? Their cannot possibly be any in your text.
  • ThatDouche
    i was gonna have "never check your grammer" as number 6 but thought it
    was too much like not using spell check since the most spell checks point out
    grammer mistakes too. maybe i should have made this the top 8 ways to suck at
    blogging.
  • ThatDouche  - BOB
    thanks everyone for making this blog be on The Best of Blogs on tgwtg.com.
    that's the coolest thing to happen to me (wow that's very sad).
  • TylerDirty529
    Ahaha, very good article! :lol:



    I'd add "don't use paragraphs, and write in huge walls of text the whole
    time" to your list, but you pretty much hit the nail on the head.



    Great job! =]
  • TheDramaticMonarch
    May I offer you a slice of "WORD" pie for this article?



    Spell-check should practically be mandatory by now and it still astounds me that
    people don't even bother to proofread and edit their own work.



    I also agree like hell on #3. Sure, it can be good to vent your frustrations on
    crappy trends and media but I think there should be some honesty to what you
    choose to write about. Don't just go on a profane, capslock rant about how that
    game/movie/show SUCKS BALLZZ!1! Why does it, in fact, suck? In fact, what makes
    you (gasp!) love the subject you're writing about?



    A definite must-read blog! Good work!
  • Prodigs
    I think I've definetly made some of those mistakes once or twice, thanks much, I
    found this very helpful.
  • Coldguy
    <img src=hock:' title=':shock:' class='postemoticon' /> BOBed!
  • Stick
    "APH: Sorry I could'nt help you earlier, as my mouth was too full of sarcasm
    at the time."



    A truly EXCELLENT article! Im going to keep an eye on you....
  • knightcm
    Good blog. Very clever. :)
  • Blitzkrieg1701
    The Internet owes you a great debt. Well done.
  • _W_
    NONSENSE. CAPITAL LETTERS ARE A PERFECTLY ADEQUATE WAY OF CONVEYING THE FACT
    THAT YOUR WORDS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.

    ~ THE VOICE

    (THIS IS A REFERENCE TO "A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY", BY THE WAY.)
  • Manic Monkey
    Damn right I'm Chuck Norris. :P
  • Richard Wesker
    I don't have anything to blog about right now, but if I ever do, I will keep
    this list in mind. Good work and congrats on the BOB.
  • Chosen Zelos
    livejournal in a nutshell.
  • coconut
    *CHEERS!!*

    I couldn't have said it better myself :] <img src=ide:' title=':side:' class='postemoticon' />
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  • billythehick
    actually i blog solely about my own miserable experiences with life, and i get
    nothing but good feedback.



    not on this site, elsewhere.
  • Fluffyman
    When I write a blog (And I use LiveJournal, Chosen Zelos, but I'm not offended
    I'm sure they exist) I usually keep anything personal out of it, try to mix the
    positive with the negative, I usually type my stuff through a Word Processor
    before posting, and I do try to make humorous bits in my blogs, though I never
    claim to be a genius.

    I really hate the blogs that are No. 1, and I was once semi-guilty of it, I
    blogged about how I contributed to a change on a Wikipedia page about "The
    Venture Bros." episode "The Invisible Hand of Fate" through a
    comment on series creator Jackson Publick's blog which he responded (Also on
    LJ), but I never tried to claim it as a big victory, nor am I awesome for it.
    It's just a change on an ever-changing online encyclopedia, what victory is
    there in that?
  • Lottech96
    .........I got nothing.
    But I'll have to disagree with Half of that. Some people like to read and Write
    Blogs. And some Don't.
  • ThatDouche
    this wasn't meant to be taken seriously. also just because someone writes
    something and someone reads it doesn't mean it's well written or good in anyway.
  • Axikal
    Way to inspire me to come up with an addendum idea for Douche: How to be a
    horrible blog READER.

    Douche: I was nodding my head the entire time. TGWTG blogs aren't for yourself.
    Especially since there's no "personal blog" page. It's basically us
    submitting articles to a collective source.

    Unlike sites like LJ, Xanga, and even the dreadful Myspace Blogs; TGWTG puts us
    all together in one spot.

    So really, making things all about you...? It's like saying this site is yours.
    Not good.

    Though! I disagree with #3: EVERYTHING SUCKS. I'm an Optimistic Pessimist, and
    I'm quite positive that everything is shit.

    Thank you.
  • JMShearer
    I'm glad to see this one in Best of Blogs. Knowing what not to do will help all
    of us become better at blogging. Good work!
  • bojangles  - Heheh...
    It is kind of funny how many spelling and grammatical errors you made in the
    article though, after point 7.

    I did, however, find this amusing.
  • ThatDouche
    haha i did that on purpose...really...all on purpose :dry:
  • Husky
    Quote:
    I'd add "don't use paragraphs, and
    write in huge walls of text the whole time"

    Yap, me too! Anyway really nice list! I'll get back to these if I ever need to
    improve the suckiness of my blogs :whistle:
  • CinemaZebra
    Every person who has ever made a blog should read this.
  • amtidec
    Who came up with the idea that caps equal yelling, anyway? I used to think of
    caps as a convenient, ASCII-friendly way of highlighting text until I started
    getting flame for "poor manners". Nobody wants to display himself as a
    hot-headed, screaming moron (or, at least, nobody wants someone like that on
    their forums), so why even have this interpretation?

    Still, nice blog. Kinda reminds me of Kurt Tucholsky's "Advice for a poor
    orator" (Ratschläge für einen schlechten Redner).
  • LUrabbi
    I'm not sure if this was written tongue-in-cheek or if you seriously suck at
    blogging, but it made me laugh, and for that, I thank you.
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