{"id":13,"date":"2025-07-17T18:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qwoft.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:12:51","slug":"who-starts-a-blog-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qwoft.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Who Starts A Blog in 2025?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Me, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You see way back in probably 2012 or so, I started a blog with the handle I had been using for a good 10+ years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m glad I saved that image because there is apparently zero history of that website anywhere. I’ve searched but it just doesn’t exist. Turns out not *everything* stays on the internet forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what I remember about that site, I used those graphics from a website called Bannedstory, an image creator that allowed people to use the sprites from Maplestory. Finally I could make my in game character as cool as I wanted without spending thousands of hours grinding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spent thousands of hours grinding anyway, but I never looked cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m also pretty sure I used this as the profile image<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh yeah, Full Metal Alchemist was my jam. And I used it everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taking pictures of my screen like it’s 2009 which, in at least one of those photos, it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, the old blog served only one purpose I can remember. I was playing the mobile game DragonVale<\/a> and was struggling to unlock some new dragon, Kairos. The internet was, for the first time I can remember, completely void of any information on how to unlock this legendary dragon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I muddled my way through, gathering pieces. I remember literally nothing about the process but I was evidently forward-thinking enough to capture a few screenshots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TA-DA!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m glad I saved all these images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I wrote up the process and put it on my blog. Actually got a few thousand hits, I assume from people looking for the same information I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s the story of what launched into a successful internet career that I’ve been profiting from ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yeah okay, what actually happened is that I moved on and never posted anything else to that blog. No idea what happened to it or honestly what free site I was hosting it through. Maybe blogspot? It’s long gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years later I’d start up another website <\/a>with a new handle after coming up empty with creative or fun name ideas. Spent a few hours and landed on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qwoft<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because nobody else had claimed it, literally zero internet results. Because the results forcible try to assume you mean QWOP<\/a>? Or maybe because it’s just not proper grammar to put a W after a Q.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who’s to say, but I did it. Then I started making videos, about one of my oldest hobbies: Video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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