People can be totally unaware of your existence, even if you are the best at what you do.

The reason why you think decreased engagement, reach, views, or rate of gaining followers or subscribers means you’re not doing good, that you are not as good as you used to be, that there’s something wrong with your content, or that your content is not good enough is because you believed the higher engagement, reach, views, or rate of gaining followers or subscribers that you used to get or have in the past was because you were better, you were doing better, or that your content was better in the past.

You think you’re doing bad now, because you think you were doing any better earlier. And you think the increase in these metrics that you had in the past is proof or evidence enough for the fact that you were amazing back then. And that’s why you believe in case you experience some decrease in engagement, reach, views, or follower or subscriber gaining rate, that it’s all your fault, and that it means that your content isn’t that good anymore, is not as good as it were before, or that the quality of your content or posts isn’t as great as it used to be. And you think that this is why people are leaving. You are panicking, because you thought they came because you were amazing. That’s why you think you suck now because they’re leaving. You think the market is always right, and you’re pandering to it, all while preaching authenticity and being yourself to the fullest. You think the early and quick success you had from the start or in the past was because of how awesome you are or were back then, and that is why you think your current failure is all on you, is all because you suck. And that’s why you’re now crying when they left you now, because this must mean and indicate how horrible you are right now, at least in terms of the quality of your content or how good you really are currently at what you do. You think that your quick, early, and easy success was because you were awesome, and that’s why your self-esteem is affected negatively by the negative feedback you’re now getting from the people who think you’re no longer worthy of their time.

I understand that algorithms are sometimes, (most of the time actually), unfair and not so reflective of how good you really are. But this is bigger than the algorithm just being a liability here. This is about you believing that how people receive what you do is an accurate measure of how good it really is. You think that the opinion of the majority is always right. Or at least almost always closer to the truth than the opinion of certain individuals, random single people, or the minority. I’m not trying to tell you it’s all privilege. It’s not about telling you that we don’t live in a meritocracy. This isn’t about criticizing corruption. This is not about waking you up to the fact that life is not fair. It’s about pointing out that your faith in the market is highly misplaced. You think people are right, and you’re wrong, because they’re so many, and you’re just one. Science doesn’t work this way. Why do you think stuff that cannot be verified or confirmed by Science, the scientific method, or scientific research, works any differently? Something isn’t right, true, or considered to be the indisputable truth or factual in science just because the majority of scientists think or say so. Why do you think you suck just because the majority of people think or say so?