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Original Tweet: "【Awakening from 76 Followers: Thoughts on Breaking the Mold as a Novice Blogger】
When I lost count of how many times I refreshed my Twitter page, watching those top KOLs with their tens or hundreds of thousands of views, I suddenly realized I had fallen into a fatal thought trap:
I, a novice blogger, have been studying 'how to become someone else,' but forgot to think about 'how to be a better version of myself.' This idea came so suddenly, like groping in a dark tunnel for too long, but forgetting that I had a lighter in my hand. The profundity of accounts like @CyberPhilos and the incisiveness of Feng Ge @0x0xFeng are essentially concrete representations of their unique understanding, while I foolishly wanted to directly copy these appearances. This cognitive bias is as crude and simplistic as thinking that learning to copy the Mona Lisa means you've learned Da Vinci's painting methods.
After thinking for several nights, I realized:
Content creation is never a simple game of information transfer. Behind those seemingly effortless tweets is the process of creators chewing and digesting massive amounts of information, then reassembling it with their own unique cognitive framework. While I was anxiously searching everywhere for 'information sources,' @BroLeonAus was creating the information source itself. I wasted too much time in the wrong direction, and I'm excited to have finally found the key to breaking the mold. I began to consciously record those moments of thought that made my pupils dilate, not simply collecting them, but forcing myself to reinterpret these viewpoints from three different angles. It's like turning a piece of chocolate over and over in your mouth, tasting flavor levels that others can't taste.
The paradox of content creation gradually surfaced:
The more you pursue 'density of valuable information,' the easier it is to fall into the quagmire of data anxiety. Those early long articles that I thought were hardcore were essentially just a paraphrased retelling of the project's white paper using longer sentences. Until I reread my previous analysis articles, I suddenly realized they were just like frozen dumplings in the freezer, full of filling but without a soul, tasteless. This reminded me of a saying: 'True insight lies not in how much you know, but in how you redefine what is known.' So I started trying to add some unique perspectives to each article, even if that perspective might seem naive. I will continue to persist in this way.
The most important lesson I learned from the journey of growing from 0 to 76 followers is:
The internet doesn't need another perfect repeater. The content that makes me stop and think often carries the creator's distinct cognitive fingerprint—it might be the scalpel-like analytical framework of @0xBeyondLee, or it might be a sudden burst of inspiration from an anonymous blogger. I started allowing myself to add 'I think... I believe...' after rigorous analysis. I no longer stare at the content of big Vs with anxiety every day, but instead developed a more dangerous reading habit: when I see a brilliant point of view, I immediately pause and force myself to think of three related points or different insights before continuing to read. I slowly realized that the internet content ecosystem is undergoing a silent revolution: users are beginning to tire of the standard answers fed by algorithms and are turning to a hunger for real opinions with the rough edges of thought.
Standing at this cognitive turning point, I suddenly understood the essence of so-called 'positioning':
It's not a carefully designed persona mask, but a natural secretion of a way of thinking. When I stopped worrying about 'whether this tweet fits my account image' and instead focused on 'whether this discovery can resonate with my 76 followers,' I no longer had to pay attention to the rules and restrictions that once bound me. Randomly choose a common concept, and then force yourself to reinterpret it from a completely unrelated perspective. I believe that maybe 80% will be childishly ridiculous, but the remaining 20% will slowly form my cognitive signature.
This may just be a casual ramble of mine:
The real moat for creators lies not in how much exclusive information you have, but in how strong your ability is to brew public information into privately treasured intellectual alcohol. My 77th follower may have been attracted by a strange metaphor, and my 100th follower may stay for my peculiar point of view. None of this matters, what matters is that I have finally found a unique grammar for communicating with this crypto world, speaking human language with professional knowledge reserves, telling jokes with a rigorous analytical framework, and insisting on recording the moonlight that suddenly breaks into view while everyone else is looking down to pick up sixpence.
As for what kind of KOL I will eventually become? This question seems to have dissipated in some night, some morning. Because the real answer may be hidden in the next unintentional collision of thoughts.
Finally, thanks to @Reduo0531 Bella's article, I read it three times repeatedly. Looking forward to subsequent updates."
Authored at: 2025-04-18T06:18:12.000Z
Author Twitter ID: 1842662391970160640
Original Tweet Link: https://x.com/403_Ever/status/1913114821387784518
