If you haven't noticed, our blog content is gone! You can't even wayback it!
We have two theories as to what happened. The more prevalent and plausible theory is that our SEO guy fucked up the website by deleting some of our pages. As you may know, we have already dealt with shadow bans and being barred from Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and other sources of traffic. Therefore, we rely pretty heavily on word of mouth and letting our products speak for themselves in the field. One way to help our situation, or so we thought, was to improve our presence in search engine results. We took a chance with a fresher to help him get some experience and to save us some money. Unfortunately, he botched the whole thing and ended up deleting several of our pages. For a while, we didn't even have our shop integrated with the website! We had to fire the guy within the week. If you're reading this, no hard feelings buddy. I'm sure you'll be a great web consultant some day!
Another less plausible theory that has been kicked around the office is cyber attack. The issue occurred around the same time that we were receiving threats of legal action and cyber attacks from haters on Etsy. It is unknown how one of these people could have gained access or why they didn't take the whole site down (or replace it with Hello Kitty or pro-zio propaganda) if they had the chance. This probably didn't happen but it would explain the disruption to our operations.
At first we thought it was so over! It's pretty disheartening to lose so much "hard work". But it isn't the end, but a new beginning.
Will we start doing our blog again? Probably, but not at a decent pace. We're grown ass men now, there isn't much time for posting our rants and musings anymore. However, we are still bursting with great ideas that we want to share. There will be a Clout Engine book eventually. It may be the last hope for western civilization. We are going to point out everything wrong with our cultures and what can be done to fix them. Unfortunately, that requires people to become self-actualized and responsible and to develop a halfway decent values system. It can't be fixed at the level of policy. It's not going to happen, but at least we won't die without having warned you.