No, I’m not starting this myself. And no, I don’t have a problem with people that do it. I understand that people need to do what they can to support their families or get some extra spending money. Go ahead, do what you need to!

What I do have a rant about is something fairly simple. It’s the people who feel like they’re assaulting you with paid posts when you don’t expect it. I’d like to say I could just read past the links and ignore it, but it’s gotten overwhelming. I go to a blog to read about the person and their life, or the subject that their blog is about, whether it’s a game or a TV series or whatever. I can skip a post that’s obviously built around a paid link. But if I’m reading about something fairly important in their life, I don’t want to read it and see the person throw in some (to be frank) bullshit about something that has no relevance, just to put a link in it. It makes me feel like I’m being used, or that the person doesn’t take their life seriously enough to devote something that’s supposed to be personal to whatever they’re dealing with.

It just really turns me off from reading some of these blogs.