Hypnosis (A Fun-Raising Experiment)
You are getting sleeeeeeepy... Good afternoon, dear reader and welcome… Now that I have you all focused (or experiencing an epileptic episode from the above light show) , allow me to explain to you why we are here. Several years ago when I started this, I activated and allowed ads on the page in an attempt at what I thought would monetize a talent. Do you know how many tens of thousands of eyeballs on stories it takes for that to actually work? Wait… That is tens of thousands of eyeballs who ALSO periodically click on ads as well. Needless to say, that wasn’t it. A couple of years ago when I came back from my new job/hospitalization hiatus, I realized something. Two things, actually… 1 – When I am using my phone an encounter a page with ads on it, I am more inclined to say “fuck that” and close. 2 – When I am on either of my computers, I have adblocker set to gestapo and I haven’t known what an ad on a web page looks like for several years. “Alexa,