I guess most would know now that Super Junior’s Shindong has a second IG account for “geek news” (as he puts it).
Now this, is the kind of information the inner tech/geek me likes. The chat about gadgets and games from the past. The talk about fonts and design. The sharing of tutorials for video editing. Yes! All the stuff that I like. I mean, if you had clicked around and read the page about my blog, you would have known that I used to fiddle around with html to build my own site and design my own blog layouts. I don’t do it anymore, but I still do a bit of design now and then…with my mediocre design skills. (A bit cheat de lah coz I build on other people’s templates in Canva. And nowadays, I have joined the lazy-people-just-use-AI-to-design crew. But eh, use AI also must know how to ask for this and that, and to refine it until it gives me what I want. Sometimes also have to end up manually make some edits coz AI has its limitations.)
Oh, but I have digressed.
I have been interacting with that account a lot, leaving comments and sharing my thoughts. He always replies to the comments in whatever language you write in. I suppose with the help of a translating tool. Hahaha…I guess this is the point where the fangirls will squeal. Eh…but I’m like, how do you even know it is bro himself answering the comments. He might have a team or a ghost writer. Anyway, I don’t really care if it’s him answering the comments or someone else. The point is, this is the stuff that interests me. My only gripe is everything is in Korean and I have to take screenshots and Google Translate them coz sometimes the translating function in IG doesn’t really work.
Or is it…bro only replies to comments now coz he needs to build the account and increase the followership? I hope not. Coz it is nice to chat with people to get to know what they think and their perspectives. I don’t go out much and I’m an awkward potato with groups of people. I pretty much thrive by getting to know people online.
Bro is really super onz updating this account. Sometimes there are like 3-4 posts in a day. To the point, I’m like…I read until jin chuan. Hahaha. Cannot keep up sia. Hmmm…3-4 posts a day…will that kill the engagement? Yea, content creator me thinks about all these metrics until sometimes it kills the joy of sharing stuff. I guess that’s why I have threads, so I can have verbal/thought diarrhoea there. No holding back my thoughts and words. But I suppose bro doesn’t need to worry about engagement coz he already has an advantage with his idol status.
PS: The spacing between the paragraphs and sizing of images is killing me. I NEED TO FIND A WAY TO FIX IT.
And this, my friends, is why I learnt to code and design. I need control over the look and feel of things. It irks me when I see little issues like this. There MUST be a way for me to fix the code.
