{"id":86688,"date":"2019-04-01T01:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T23:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/01\/the-secret-to-going-viral-how-i-got-10-million-hits-each-month-jenna-guillaume\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T01:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T23:09:27","slug":"the-secret-to-going-viral-how-i-got-10-million-hits-each-month-jenna-guillaume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=86688","title":{"rendered":"The secret to going viral: how I got 10 million hits each month | Jenna Guillaume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing listicles at Buzzfeed wasn\u2019t just a cynical numbers grab, not for me anywayI was obsessed with TV and movies growing up. I remember being about five and crying because my uncle told me that my eyes were going to become permanently square from all that screentime, and I thought it would literally happen. But it didn\u2019t stop me from watching. My mum would try to get me to play outside \u2013 and sometimes she succeeded \u2013 but I\u2019d only go out there to pretend I was in The Secret Garden, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or Captain Planet, or whatever other story was capturing my attention that week.As a teenager, my addiction to screens continued and expanded to include the internet. It was the early days of chatrooms, discussion forums and MSN messenger, and I couldn\u2019t get enough. I\u2019d spend hours on Dawson\u2019s Creek fansites, arguing over whether Dawson or Pacey was the superior choice (Pacey, OBVIOUSLY), while simultaneously logging in to Blink-182 chats to analyse why Adam\u2019s Song was the most meaningful ballad of our age. The only thing limiting my time online was dial-up internet, and the fact I had to share the phone line with everyone else in my house. If it weren\u2019t for that, I might never have done my maths homework, no matter how much my mum nagged. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/apr\/01\/the-secret-to-going-viral-how-i-got-10-million-hits-each-month\" target=\"_blank\">The secret to going viral: how I got 10 million hits each month | Jenna Guillaume<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing listicles at Buzzfeed wasn\u2019t just a cynical numbers grab, not for me anywayI was obsessed with TV and movies growing up. I remember being about five and crying because my uncle told me that my eyes were going to become permanently square from all that screentime, and I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}