Jared Polin Froano's photo.com and this is the Daily Fro for June 20th, 2018.

The time now is 833am. This is episode 135 where I sit down sometime during the day to share what's on my mind with you and you can share what's on your mind with me by calling or texting 2674546376.

Now I didn't do one last night because I didn't feel like it.

And like I've said in the past, if I don't feel like I should be making one,

I'm not going to force it out into the world,

especially because I've been kind of moody as of late.

But I kind of know why.

But it's all a game, isn't it?

Is the direction I want to talk about today.

The YouTube world, the social media world, the numbers-driven world, it is all a game.

It's different than what it has been in the past because there's more people watching.

And I'm not talking about myself.

I'm talking about it in general.

Like you go back 20 years and game was different.

It was kind of rigged for everybody else.

But not everybody else, but only the upper echelon that could get through the barriers.

And as I've said before, there are no barriers or there's less barriers today and you can try to force your way through.

But with certain success comes certain issues.

It feels like right now that the world of online education or infotainment or whatever you want to call

it is a game because it's all numbers driven it's all likes driven it's all freaking views driven

and what gets the views do you focus on creating that type of content? Case in point, I create

the six degrees of photography, which I think are tremendous episodes telling great stories

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