User blog:Marcia Aeris/What happened to originality?

This is not meant to offend certain users, I kind of want to let this out. As much as I know I end up being somewhat of a blog trendsetter, and I know some of these can be "fun" for some reason, but.... what happened to originality?

Yes, you want to let your opinions, talents, how you see users as another thing, and etc out, but it kind of feels like that everything is becoming more of the same... And when someone makes something "trendy", unlike before, people make 50 million blogs trying to follow that thing that they think charms the eye. Is it really that interesting? I'm fine with people being open for requests for other users, stories, the ocassional AMAs, but when the same blog with barely any "twists" (NEW twists, not twists copied from others or twists that are predictable or clickbait) comes up so many times, it becomes a bit bothersome. Not necessarily a bad thing, however.

Remember that "I'll give my honest opinion on you" blog I made back in the day? I made that so I can tell people what I think about them to avoid or to lessen what they think is "backstabbing" in chat (yet other people do it and aren't scolded...). TULO and I ALMOST got reported that time, too. No kidding. And what I ended up making so I don't have to "backstab" as much ended up becoming "cool" and people started copying... I don't even get why is it THAT trendy. In fact, I was expecting not so many people to go there and for it to be really controversial.

I don't really find it wrong for people to follow trends, it's just that I want people to embrace originality since I'm sick of seeing the same 10 kind of blogs over and over again that end up getting rather overshadowed. In fact, I'm guilty of following trends back in the day when the "Ask me *almost* anything" blogs were really popular because I wanted to see what people wanted to ask and I sorta saw it as "cool" as well. I never said that I was perfect from it or anything as the like.

Now as a question, for those who follow trends, why do you do so? I won't disrespect your opinion unless it ends up being rather offensive. For those who set them however, what do you feel when people follow you.

I think my opinion has been wrapped up in this blog, and this is SoaringSprocket, signing out.