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Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by DoreenMichele on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:26PM (#26517334)
I've been up all night and I feel awful and I'm not trying to pick a fight here. I'm just thinking of some novel I read where some nouveau riche fool paid someone for their riding boots because his were too new looking and he wanted to look like he had been riding a long time. He wanted worn-looking boots. He didn't want to look like it was his first time.

And the guy took his money with a straight face and sold him the boots even though the color of the boots signaled he was a trainer or something, which is something the nouveau riche guy had no way of knowing. But it would have been immediately laughable to most people who were in the know.

I am not going to go through the account and try to make up BS, but the bike may be custom built, the gear he's wearing may be amazingly good, the locations he is posting from may be something incredibly special in some way and not commenting on those details may be part of the appeal.

I'm a writer by trade and I get paid by the word and also have to meet other constraints and you can sometimes say very little with three paragraphs or you can say a metric fuck ton with a few well-chosen words.

I absolutely don't know enough about the topic. I just know that when things get popular, it is often due to some value-added detail that no one explicitly talks about. The fact that it gets slipped in and not commented on is part of what makes some things wildly popular.

A density of quality info and yadda is often some element of that and that is often not obvious to outsiders who cannot readily tell that this photo is some superficial tripe and that seemingly similar one is worlds apart in quality, data, informativeness, whatever.

Anyway: This is my insomnia talking. It is absolutely not intended to be ugly or pick a fight or yadda.

You have a great day/night/whatever.

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by NathanielK on Friday March 19, 2021 @07:29PM (#26519210)
I think you are onto something. He's very comfortable with his hobby. Going through his twitter, there are many photos of him doing motorcycle maintenance with his own tools. He also has a broad variety, like an old dirtbike he rides on ice or quirky 90's sport bikes he's keeping alive and modding. I hate to gatekeep, but he's not just showing off the flashiest new things off the showroom floor like "influencers" gravitate towards.

Most of his posts are very casual, but his goal is still to ride the bike rather than fix it everyday so that is the bulk of what he shares. His tone is definitely targeting a less experienced audience. In some of the posts, there's light-hearted trivia about niche topics. He's appealing to a younger generation. Getting new people involved in what looks like an exclusive hobby is always exciting to see online.

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by superfrank on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:02PM (#26518129)
The original comment I was replying to was claiming that the account might have been successful because it presented the wisdom of a 50 year old with the face of a 20 year old.

All the examples you gave are totally possible. There may be something about the bike or the locations being visited that are special, I really don't know. Even if that is the case, that's not really what OP was claiming and not really what I was responding to.

There are tons of little reasons this account could be popular, but based on the little research I did, I don't think it's because "she" is making posts full of wisdom, years beyond "her" age.

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by sam1r on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:44PM (#26518919)
>>> I absolutely don't know enough about the topic. I just know that when things get popular, it is often due to some value-added detail that no one explicitly talks about. The fact that it gets slipped in and not commented on is part of what makes some things wildly popular

^^ this

Thank you. Wish I could pay you per word for this. [email protected]

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by antonvs on Friday March 19, 2021 @04:22PM (#26517812)
> The fact that it gets slipped in and not commented on is part of what makes some things wildly popular.

A dogwhistle, basically? "Dog whistles use language which appears normal to the majority, but which communicate specific things to intended audiences."

Dogwhistles are most often associated with politics, but the idea goes beyond that (unless you classify all asymmetric/broadcasted communication as political, which is not without merit.)

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by DoreenMichele on Friday March 19, 2021 @04:33PM (#26517906)
Eh, more like subtext for things people aren't necessarily consciously aware of.
Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by sam1r on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:46PM (#26518931)
Which is why I believe the best you can do is stay aware of the present at a meta level, and track things as a function of time.

Of course all of this requires self-drive and personal determination / willingness.

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by hellbannedguy on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:08PM (#26520498)
I would love an honest account of being a paid by the word Writer these days?

If you don’t to divulge too much on the finance part, I get it.

Re:Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp by DoreenMichele on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:54PM (#26520699)
I've actually written some about that here:

https://writepay.blogspot.com

That's just one of the things I do. I also blog and do resume work and my blogs get some support from Patreon and tips.

But I have learned a whole lot about writing well doing it on a paid-per-word basis. That's been a real growth experience for me as a writer developing my craft.