by ButterflyEffect

If I write nothing I get somewhere between 500 and 1000 views a day on this publication from residual traffic on old articles. But on August 4th, I got 2,736. On August 5th, I got 15,029. I must have really written a balling article on August 3rd.

But I didn’t write a thing.

What did happen on August 3rd? Someone killed 22 people in a Walmart in El Paso.

My August 4th article must have been pretty incredible, though, right? The day after the shooting? 15,000 hits say it had to be a great one.

Didn’t write a thing.

Someone else killed ten more people in Dayton.

But they both used guns, and those shots are like the clapper in a giant, insane, social media bell. Massive arguments about gun control reverberate through Twitter and Facebook, fed by the media, as people constantly link articles that they find useful in their anxiety driven yelling fits. Every link drives a click and every click earns some media behemoth a third of a penny, give or take. And when I say they’re ringing the bell, I’m not joking. Let’s talk about bells.

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