Can I be bothered to build a website?

Short answer, not really.

There’s a high chance if you’re reading this, you’ll read a dozen more articles about this subject telling you a bunch of facts and figures about how great the internet is, I’m not here to tell you this.

I can tell you a couple of facts though. Brands with websites achieve 100% more online traffic to their websites than those without!

Companies with online stores sell upwards of 1000x of items online than those who do not!

Anyone without a website, doesn’t exist!

How crazy, right? But do I need a website?

The truthful answer, is no.

Edgar Allan Poe didn’t have a website. Richard Matheson didn’t have a website. Stephen King certainly didn’t make a website on Wordpress when he was in his twenties and I’m pretty sure Shakespeare was only on Facebook.

You see, as someone who was a freelance illustrator in my previous life, I know what it means to build a website, religiously update it, check your traffic and interactions, only to realise that you’re better off using a service host such as fiverr, or Facebook marketplace.

BUT DO YOU HAVE FACTS?!

Well no, the point of this article is that I can’t be bothered, really, I truly can’t. My writing isn’t a commercial style, my satyr and sarcasm, perhaps not marketable. It fits my image, therefore, not to confirm to this modern society, run by invisible robots that control our every move! (The FBI are watching, shh.)

In fact, it could be easily said that the beauty of creativity is that it is seemingly the only thing to transcend technology, the fact that books still flourish where cassettes and CDs have failed – See HMV’s financial despair.

It is then perhaps a romantic ideology of mine for most of my work to exist solely in print, in fanzines and booklets I leave around the city I live in, in little notes to friends and loved ones.

Regardless, if I pursue a career in anything that requires a website, I’ll just pay some kid on fiverr £8.55 to build me one so I don’t have to. (see image at top of article)

The internet is an awful place. Like, really. You can literally google search videos of ISIS beheadings, dead children and school shooting footages. So, amongst all that, who really can be fucked to take ten minutes off watching porn or scrolling Instagram to look up: “University students who write occasionally who have a website that no one clicks on”.

Certainly not I.

This being said, my website is elhudsontyler.wordpress.com and is still very much in development because I would literally rather be doing anything.

Aight, cheers, catch you all next week for the next round of “El avoids the writing task”, maybe I should change my name to Reb-El, who knows.