So yeah, I said it. “No one reads blogs anymore.”

It just kind of fell out of my mouth during a recent podcast, and almost instantly, I knew it wasn’t entirely true. Maybe it was the caffeine talking. Or maybe the part of me that’s constantly battling social media algorithms was just venting. Either way, it got a few chuckles, and a few raised eyebrows.

Then, as fate would have it, I saw that Jonathon Dyer over at Fast Game, Good Game mentioned Cardboard Commander in one of his posts (you can check it out here). And it hit me, folks do still read blogs. I read blogs! A lot of them, actually.

Here’s the thing: blogs haven’t died. They’ve just moved.

In the old days (cue nostalgic music and the faint smell of dial-up), people actually typed in web addresses, bookmarked sites, and maybe even used RSS feeds. Now? Nobody’s sitting around typing “http://www.somecoolblog.com” anymore. We’re all scrolling through Facebook, X, or Instagram when we stumble upon that killer post, the one that makes us stop mid-scroll and think, “Hey, this looks interesting.”

That’s how I find about 95% of the blogs I read. I’m not exaggerating. It’s usually a link shared by another creator, a tagged post, or some random repost that catches my attention. The blog is still the meat, the substance, but social media is the spice rack that makes people actually notice it.

So, yeah… blogs aren’t gone. They’re just hanging out behind the scenes, quietly doing what they’ve always done: telling stories, sharing experiences, and giving us a place to ramble without character limits or algorithms deciding what sentence gets chopped off mid-thought.

Social media might be the front door, loud, busy, and full of shiny distractions, but blogs are still the living room, where the real conversations happen.

So, I’ll revise my earlier statement:
People still read blogs, they just find them differently now.

And if you’re reading this one?
Well, that kinda proves my point, doesn’t it?

— Jerry, The Cardboard Commander

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