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Unus Annus: A Complete Ranked List

well, now that every single video has been released, i’ve compiled them all into a complete ranked list, from best video to worst! this took way longer than it had any right to. (also, please note this is just my opinion, and in all honesty, this list was really hard because so many of these videos are fantastic. you could tell me that you’d rearrange anything in the 50-250 range and i’d probably agree with you.)

And if you don’t feel like going through the whole list, here’s Unus Annus ranked by month!

If the video is in: Top 50: 5 points 51 - 100: 4 points 101 - 150: 3 points 151 - 200: 2 points 201 - 250: 1 point 251 - 300: 0 points 300 or below: -1 point (Any ties settled by which month had the highest ranking video overall.)

November: 93 October: 72 December:70 September: 66 February: 66 August: 63 June: 60 January: 59 July: 53 May: 43 March: 37 April: 1

The Truth of Unus Annus (Oct. 31st)

Ethan Finally Becomes a MAN (Jan. 10th)

Phasmophobia in Real Life (Oct. 25th)

Mark and Ethan Attempt an Escape Room (Dec. 6th)

Hunting HeeHoo (Aug. 29th)

DIY Geriatric Simulator (Jan. 18th)

Recreating Every Single Unus Annus Video (Nov. 4th)

Mark Teaches Ethan to Read with Hooked On Phonics (Jun 6th)

Ethan Gives Mark a Viking Funeral (Dec. 9th)

Cooking with Sex Toys (Nov. 15th)

Mark Reviews the Impossible Burger But There’s a Looming Sense of Impending Doom (Dec. 13th)

Helium Therapy (Nov. 29th)

2 Truths and 1 Lie -- Waxing Edition (Nov. 26th)

Ethan Will Be Kicked in the Balls (Nov. 22nd)

Being Brutally Honest With Each Other (Nov. 3rd)

Would Chica Save Us From Drowning? (Jul. 24th)

Mark and Ethan are Now Fathers (Mar. 22)

Ethan Kidnapped Mark (Oct. 30th)

Mark’s Outdoor Escape Room (Aug. 28th)

The Unus Annus Last Supper (Nov. 2nd)

Mark and Ethan Go Casket Shopping (Jan. 11th)

The Sensory Overload Tank (Jan. 7th)

Mark and Ethan Summon a Ghost (Nov. 25th)

Mark Knows What Ethan Did… (Sep. 22nd)

Pee Sauna (Jun 17th)

We Made Nude Paintings of Each Other (Dec. 14th)

All of Our Video Ideas that Never Happened (Nov. 5th)

Mark Teaches Ethan How to March in a Marching Band (Sep. 4th)

Hiding Our Sins From Amy’s Holy Peepers (Jan. 2nd)

Our Perfect (and last) Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14th)

The Barrel - Official Music Video (Mar. 9th)

Edward Pumpkin Hands (Oct. 26th)

This Video Is Completely Unedited (Oct. 17th)

Ethan Teaches Mark How to Swim (Jun. 28th)

The Unus Annus Annual Sleepover (Nov. 12th)

Everything’s Legal if You’re Dead (Nov. 10th)

Harnessing Our Dogs’ Unlimited Energy (Dec. 23rd)

2 Grown Men Attempt the Presidential Fitness Test (Dec. 31st)

Learning to Breathe Underwater (Jan. 13th)

Playing Children’s Games in Total Darkness (Aug. 17th)

The Unus Annus Annual Costume Contest (Oct. 28th)

Saying Goodbye to All Our Guests (Nov. 9th)

We Got Pepper Sprayed (Mar. 10th)

The Cryptid Olympics (Oct. 24th)

Mark and Ethan Get Into a Fight (Mar. 8th)

Mark Punishes Ethan (Jan. 27th)

Ethan Watches as Mark Achieves the Impossible (Sep. 29th)

Drunk College Party Simulator (Feb. 15th)

God’s Fitness Test (Nov. 8th)

3 Big Boys Attempt the King’s Royal Fitness Test (Feb. 18th)

The Beginning of the End (Jul. 26th)

Mark Cooks Blindfolded While Ethan Guides Him Through FaceTime (May 22nd)

Pitching a Tent in the Woods But There’s a Bear 15 Feet Away (Aug. 22nd)

We Forced James Charles to Run a Military Obstacle Course (Mar. 23rd)

We Tried a Labor Pain Simulator (Mar. 20th)

The Bad Kind of Cupping (Nov. 20th)

Ethan Destroys Mark’s Van with a Bat (Dec. 7th)

Duct Tape Crucifixion (Amy, Please Don’t Watch This Video) (Dec. 29th)

A Bear Attacked Us in the Middle of the Night (Aug. 24th)

Mark and Ethan Look at a Puppy for 10 Minutes (Jul 7th)

Building the World’s First IKEA Boat (Jun 27th)

Goat Yoga (Feb. 22nd)

10 Strange Amazon Products Ethan Bought Mark Because He Doesn’t Know How To Spend Money Responsibly (Feb. 16th)

Top 10 Worst Things Your Friend Could Possibly Spend Their Money On (Feb 29th)

Fixing Mark’s Hole with Ramen But Every Time We Add Glue We Get 5% Closer to God (Jan. 14th)

Being Attacked By a Fully Trained Bodyguard Dog (Feb. 19th)

Preserving Ourselves in Wax (Dec. 26th)

Santa’s Mukbang (Drinking 1 Gallon of Eggnog) (Dec. 24th)

The Unus Annus Space Program (Jul 11th)

Ethan Explores Mark’s Haunted Basement (Dec. 17th)

Dummy THICC for Dummies | A Tale of Two Butts | Pushing Our Butts Even Further Beyond (Jul. 4th)

DIY Bungee Jump (please don’t try this) (Jan. 4th)

Unregulated Axe Throwing (Feb. 7th)

Making the Ultimate Unus Annus Burger (Sep. 15th)

How to Rescue a Cat from a Tree (Aug. 23rd)

Beer Sauna: Turning a Portable Sauna Into a Portable Hell (Mar. 16th)

The End of Unus Annus Is Almost Here… (May 15th)

We Accidentally Made an SCP While Amy Was Away (Sep. 13th)

We Play The Newlywed Game While Consuming That Which Will Kill the Other (May 23rd)

Building IKEA’s Hardest Piece of Furniture Without Instructions (Jun 18th)

Recharging Our Phones Using Only Brute Strength (Jul. 30th)

Eating Only Onions for 24 Hours: How Many Onions Does It Take to Kill a Man? (May 8th)

The Candy Bra Challenge (Jul 6th)

We Bought Every Grinch Costume on Ebay (Oct. 13th)

Only UNUS-es/ANNUS-es May Watch This Video (May 28th)

Only Watch From 2:25-6:11 --- DO NOT WATCH ANY OTHER PART OF THIS VIDEO (May 29th)

We Force Mark to Swim in the Ocean (HIS GREATEST FEAR) (Oct. 22nd)

Recreating The Miracle of Childbirth (Mar. 21st)

Making Our Own Sensory Deprivation Tank (Nov. 18th)

Turning Mark into an E-Boy (Feb. 2nd)

The First Annual Unus Annus Roast (Nov. 7th)

Reacting to Your Hilarious Green Screen Memes (Jun 5th)

The Ultimate Trolley Problem (Feb. 21st)

We Looked at Unus Annus Memes (Apr. 30th)

Exploring the Unus Annus Subreddit for Your Delicious Memes (May 16th)

BLACK LIVES MATTER: Resources and How You Can Help In The Description (Jun 2nd)

The Chubby Gummy Challenge (Dec. 4th)

Who Can Teach Their Dog a Trick the Fastest? (Mar. 5th)

Taped and Afraid (Dec. 20th)

We Played Strip Poker (May 20th)

Consuming the World’s Hottest Chip (Sep. 30th)

Mark and Ethan Learn About the Human Body (Jan. 26th)

1 Man 100 Accents (Dec. 1st)

Mark Steals Ethan’s Face (Jan. 15th)

Chickens Teach Us About Life and Death (Feb. 17th)

We Lubed Our Floor for a Sliding Competition (Aug. 3rd)

Mark Conquers His Fear of Night Swimming (Oct. 11th)

The Ultimate Paper Airplane Showdown (Jun 20th)

We Pierced Each Other’s Ears (Sep. 11th)

Crushing Watermelons Betwixt Our Mighty Thighs (Jun 3rd)

7 Minutes in Heaven | 7 Minutes in Hell (Nov. 11th)

Two Men in a Trench Coat Teach You How to Save Money at the Movies (Jun 26th)

Having an Adventure in VRChat Because We Can’t Go Outside (Mar. 27th)

Preparing a 5-Star Meal for Our YouTube Famous Dogs (Jul. 16th)

Mark and Ethan Shave Chica (Aug. 8th)

The Wubble (Aug. 7th)

How to Start a Fire (except don’t…) (Aug. 27th)

Unus Annus (Nov. 15th)

This Is Goodbye (Aug. 5th)

Puberty Simulator (Aug. 13th)

This Video Went Completely Out of Control (Oct. 1st)

This Video Will Never Make Sense (Sep. 23rd)

Blowing Our Souls into Some Hot Glass (Feb. 28th)

We Attempted to Create THICC Water (May 10th)

Brick Soccer (Sep. 19th)

Accepting the Truth (Nov. 1st)

Drinking Real THICC Water...How Bad Does It Taste? (May 19th)

How Far Can We Chuck a 16lbs Rock? (Sep. 10th)

Recreating Ourselves as a Cursed Mannequin (Jan. 8th)

Recreating Childhood Photos (Jun 13th)

Nutball: The Most Dangerous Game (Feb. 10th)

Mark Teaches Ethan How to Play the Trumpet (Aug. 1st)

How to Safely Bury Your Friend (Aug. 25th)

Mark Breaks His Nose on an Aerial Hoop (Oct. 4th)

DIY Bed of Nails: OH GOD, PLEASE DON’T EVER TRY THIS (Jul. 20th)

Pee Soda (Sep. 17th)

We Had to Drink Each Other’s Pee (Dec. 16th)

Creating Mark FISHbach (Jun 21st)

Making Our Own Gravestones to Prepare for Our Inevitable Demise (May 11th)

We Made Fanart for Each Other (Jun 11th)

Bear Trapping 101: An Elegant Knot for an Elegant Beast (Jun 25th)

Pressure Washing Our Sins Away (Oct. 21st)

Literally Finding a Needle in a Haystack (Oct. 8th)

We Ate Dog Treats so You Don’t Have To (Sept. 12th)

Giving Away Our 1,000,000 Subscriber Gold Play Button (Dec. 18th)

2 Idiots Get Crushed By 18-Ft Giant Snakes (Mar. 15th)

We Cryogenically Freeze Ourselves (Jan. 20th)

DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 2080 (May 27th)

Fighting Fish to the Death in the Deep Blue Sea (Oct. 23rd)

DIY Teeth (Jul. 17th)

We Attempt to Make UNHOLY Water (Sep. 24th)

We Attempt to Make Holy Water (Sep. 20th)

DIY Cheese (Jan. 29th)

Making an Indoor Tornado to Flex on Mother Nature (Feb. 9th)

Literally Eating Fire (Feb. 6th)

2 Absolute Beginners Experience the Dancing Glory that is Salsa (Jan. 17th)

Team Building for 2: Trust Fall, Tug-of-War, and More! (Aug. 26th)

The Great Ice Cream Cake Race (Sep. 27th)

The Unus Annus Confessional Booth (May 26th)

Blood Bath (Oct. 27th)

2 Dirty Boys Wash Their Filthy Mouths Out With Soap (Jun. 30th)

Who Can Make Themselves Taller? (Jan. 6th)

Mark and Ethan Share a Drink (Aug. 6th)

2 Adults Take a 4th Grade Math Test (Sep. 6th)

Bobbing for Literally Anything But Apples (Oct. 16th)

Momiplier Teaches Self Defense (Aug. 15th)

The Human Mop (Jul. 21st)

We Attempt Pottery Without Amy’s Help (Sep. 8th)

Becoming One With the Horse (Jun 19th)

Wikifeet: A Tale of Two Tootsies (Apr. 4th)

We Found Websites That the World Forgot About (Apr. 11th)

1 Gallon of Jello Nearly Broke Us (Aug. 20th)

We Finally Drank Our DIY Wine (Sep. 5th)

We Do It Better Than Icarus Ever Could (Jul. 25th)

We Turned Our Bodies Into Art (Jan. 25th)

You Blink, You Lose (Dec. 30th)

Can You Bake a Cookie from Cookie Dough Ice Cream? (Jul. 13th)

Mark Turns Ethan into a Mummy to Prepare Him for the Great Beyond (Dec. 3rd)

Ethan Turns Mark Into a Werewolf (Oct. 29th)

Making Soda with Literally Anything But Soda (Sep. 16th)

Dunking Oreos in Literally Anything But Milk (Jul. 15th)

Making Snow Cones With Literally Anything But Normal Flavors (Sep. 7th)

How Many Slaps Does it Take to Cook a Chicken? (Sep. 2nd)

Play Doh Thanksgiving (Nov. 28th)

Hot Dog’d to Death (Nov. 17th)

Mark and Ethan Build a Scarecrow (Oct. 20th)

Transforming Mark into the Eighth Wonder of the World (Aug. 16th)

Unus Annus Try Pole Dancing (Jul 8th)

Mark Teaches Ethan to Wrestle (Sep. 28th)

Ethan Teaches Mark Gymnastics (Sep. 26th)

Who’s Cutting Onions in Here? (Nov. 6th)

How to Escape from a Hostage Situation (Jul. 18th)

Are We Already Dead? (Feb. 13th)

Bored? Press This Button (Apr. 27th)

Judging Your Terrible Unus Annus Ideas (Aug. 10th)

This is for FUN and NOT a Fetish (Oct. 10th)

This is What Being Tased Feels Like (Jan. 21st)

Learning the Ancient Art of Chinese Archery (Feb. 20th)

Tearing a Phone Book in Half With Our Huge Manly Hands (May 31st)

Beating Inanimate Objects to Death (Dec. 27th)

Edible Slime was a Mistake. (Feb. 23rd)

We Eat Bugs (Jan. 3rd)

Amy Sent Us a Mystery Box (Sep. 21st)

Hydro Dipping a Baby (Aug. 11th)

The Egg Smashing Game (Jul. 12th)

BEYBLADE NUTBALL (Sep. 14th)

Discussing the Idea of Murdering Each Other But It’s Just a Joke and Definitely Not Serious Haha (Feb. 12th)

Mark is Guilty. Ethan Has the Proof. (Jul 1st)

Learning How to Lockpick (FBI Please Don’t Watch) (Jun 22nd)

Mark Needs to Rub Ethan and Only His Mom Can Help Him (Mar. 14th)

Learning to Use the Force (Sep. 18th)

The Secret Unus Annus No-Touchy-Touchy Hand Shake (Apr. 25th)

We Google Each Other to Find Our Darkest Forgotten Sins (Apr. 6th)

Shooting Archery ON A HORSE (Oct. 6th)

Ethan Redefines Male Beauty (Feb. 3rd)

Ethan Roasts Mark for 15 Minutes Straight (Jun 7th)

Playing Cards: The World’s Deadliest Weapon (Aug. 2nd)

Morphing Our Bodies Into Superhero Poses (Jun 4th)

Becoming a Master of Mime (Feb. 11th)

This is the Most Dangerous Children’s Toy Ever Made (Jul. 23rd)

A Serious Conversation Under the Stars (Jul. 29th)

Is Mark a Masochist? (May 1st)

Literally Laying On Literal Broken Glass (Feb. 8th)

Bad, Bad Beans (Jan. 23rd)

DIY Wine (May 30th)

2 Men 200 Accents (Apr. 18th)

DIY Boob (May 24th)

Mark and Ethan Go On a Drum Date (Feb. 27th)

10 Miracle Products to Give YOU the Thiccest Jaw On Planet Earth (Jun. 29th)

Ultimate Horseshoes (Jul. 28th)

Mark and Ethan Get a Full Body Scan to See What Secrets Lay Hidden Within (and learn their body fat) (Mar. 13th)

Acupuncture is NOT Painful (Dec. 11th)

What the Hell is a Pink Trombone? (May 2nd)

Donating Toys to Charity w/ Jacksepticeye (Dec. 22nd)

Poopsie Sparkly Critters (a slime surprise…) (Nov. 27th)

The Great Meat Mistake (Dec. 10th)

DIY Minesweeper (Oct. 7th)

Popping Popcorn with a High Powered Laser (Aug. 12th)

Bobbing for Apples but the Water Keeps Getting Thiccer (Oct. 3rd)

We Buy a Professional Hypnosis Video and React to It (Dec. 5th)

Long Hair, Do We Dare? (Feb. 25th)

Recreating Mark’s Childhood (Jul. 2nd)

Professional Fire Cupping (Going Even Further Beyond) (Feb. 4th)

An Extremely Sour, Not-at-All Sour Meal (Feb. 5th)

Purging Our Sins with a Neti Pot (Nov. 16th)

Attempting to Build IKEA Furniture Without Instructions (Jun 9th)

The Annual Unus Annus Dunk Contest (Jul. 27th)

Our Fans Try to Scare Us With Their Homemade Creepypasta (Jun 12th)

There’s Something Horribly Wrong With This Picture… (June 8th)

Too Many Pickles (Aug. 21st)

5 Products to Grow Your Patchy Beard (Jul. 31st)

What is the Least Viewed Video on YouTube? (Apr. 10th)

Baby Hands Operation (Nov. 24th)

Mark Builds a Pillow Fort for the Very First Time (Apr. 2nd)

Are Reptilian Humanoids Living Among Us? (May 6th)

Mark and Ethan Bet Everything on a Wikipedia Race (Apr. 15th)

We Will Churn Thy Butter (Sep. 25th)

We Take a Lie Detector Test to Uncover Our Darkest Sins (Jan. 12th)

Drawing on Each Other’s Backs in Total Darkness (Oct. 9th)

Drawing Memes from Memory (Nov. 30th)

We Made Every YouTuber Battle in the Hunger Games (Apr. 5th)

Ultimate YouTuber Boxing Showdown (Mar. 30th)

Tasting Weird Food Combos: Pickles and Chocolate? Ice Cream and Soy Sauce? (Jul 10th)

How to NOT be the Perfect Boyfriend (Apr. 13th)

Help Us Break a YouTube World Record (Apr. 17th)

Momiplier Tells Us True Scary Stories from Korea (Oct. 18th)

DO NOT TRY THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES (Aug. 9th)

The Most Dangerous Shave (Jun 23rd)

We Took the Polar Plunge (Jan. 1st)

2 Complete Amateurs Enter a Body Building Competition (Jun 1st)

Does This Magnetic Skincare Routine Really Work? (Jul. 19th)

Mark and Ethan Milk a Goat (Oct. 5th)

Pumpkin Spice “Challenge” (Oct. 19th)

Doing Each Other’s Makeup in the Dark (Nov. 23rd)

We’re Better Than Dogs (Aug. 18th)

We Have the Best Bellies on YouTube (May 25th)

The Good Kind of Cupping (Nov. 19th)

Hacking the Very Fabric of the Universe (Jan. 30th)

Where in the World is Unus Annus? (Apr. 1st)

Mark and Ethan Become United States Citizens (Jun 10th)

Mark and Ethan Desperately Attempt to Feel Something (May 4th)

We Took an IQ Test (Jan. 9th)

Mark Teaches Ethan Korean (May 13th)

Lost Omegle Video (Mar. 31st)

Finding the Most Cursed Image on the Internet (Jun 15th)

Amazon Shopping for the Apocalypse (Mar. 28th)

Desperately Trying Not to Touch Our Faces (Mar. 24th)

Going on an Internet Scavenger Hunt (Mar. 26th)

Reading YOUR Scariest True Stories (Apr. 21st)

The Scariest True Stories on the Internet (Apr. 12th)

REAL Ghost Hunting At An Abandoned Zoo (March 2nd)

Bleachus Annus (Jul. 14th)

Pumpkin Taste Tier List (Oct. 14th)

Floating in a Real Sensory Deprivation Tank (Dec. 12th)

Was 2020 a Bad Year for Unus Annus? (Aug. 30th)

Speed Reading 1000+ WPM to Gain a Complete Understanding of All Human Knowledge (Apr. 9th)

We Give Each Other Tattoos Blindfolded (Mar. 11th)

Mark’s 1 Weird Talent Leaves Ethan Absolutely Speechless (Apr. 3rd)

Learning to Jump Higher in 16 Minutes and 16 Seconds (Oct. 15th)

You Breathe You Die (Jan.16th)

Breaking Glasses With Our Screams (Aug. 4th)

The 1000 High-Five Challenge (Oct. 2nd)

Becoming the World’s Greatest DJs (Mar. 4th)

Grip Strength Test: Loser Becomes the Winner’s Butler for a Day (Aug. 14th)

Forcibly Turning Mark into Santa Claus Against His Will (Dec. 25th)

We Smell Every Smell (Sep. 1st)

We Wrote a Hit Pop Song in 30 Minutes (Feb. 26th)

Unus Annus Carves the Roast Beast (Mar. 18th)

The Painful World of Aerial Skills (Oct. 12th)

The Koala Challenge: TikTok’s Intimate Couples Trend (Aug. 19th)

Ethan Traps Mark’s Soul in the Palm of His Hand (Jun 24th)

Will We Break the Boards...Or Will They Break Us? (Jun 14th)

DIY Chiropractor (Mar. 7th)

Mark Gives Ethan a HOT (stone) Massage (Aug. 31st)

We Bought a Camera That Can Look Inside Us (Mar. 3rd)

Can Plants Feel Pain? (Sep. 9th)

This is Hiding on Your Body RIGHT NOW. (Jul 9th)

Strange (and legal) Things You Can Do With Your Body After Death (Jan. 28th)

Like It Or Not...This is What The New Human Looks Like (May 7th)

Looking at Long Lost Memes (Jan. 31st)

We Played Mad Libs and Ran It Through Google Translate (Apr. 7th)

Running Internet Drama Through Google Translate (Apr. 24th)

Mark and Ethan Desperately Try to Name a Single State in the USA (Apr. 8th)

Professional Fetish Scientists Rank the Best/Worst Fetishes of 2020 (May 3rd)

Reddit 50/50: Two Player Edition (Mar. 25th)

Mark and Ethan Find the Lost City of El Dorado (Apr. 14th)

Using Google Maps to Find the Lost City of Atlantis (Apr. 20th)

We Hired a Real Hypnotherapist to Analyze Our Darkest Dreams (Jan. 24th)

2 Boys 2 Poops (Sep. 3rd)

This is How We’ll Die... (Jan. 19th)

Nutball Extreme: Taser Edition (Mar. 1st)

You Made Beautiful Music for The Barrel...But Only One Could Win (Dec. 15th)

Can Sound Therapy Heal All Wounds? (Jul. 22nd)

Middle School Science Experiment Teaches Us About Life and Death (Mar. 6th)

Reverse Engineering a Kite to Steal the Idea of Electricity from Benjamin Franklin (Jul 5th)

Ethan’s Relaxing and Totally Normal Nail Salon (Dec. 19th)

Mark and Ethan Take a Personality Test (Apr. 22nd)

An AI Generates Our Worst Nightmare (May 5th)

Learning to Cry on Command to Increase Our YouTube Views (Jun 16th)

How Big Can a Nuke Get? (May 17th)

Granting Access Into Heaven’s Sweet Gates (Feb. 24th)

We Put an Apple Watch in a Rock Tumbler (Jul. 3rd)

Whom Would Eat Whomst First in a Zombie Apocalypse? (Mar. 29th)

Bigfoot is Real and It Ate My Friend (May 14th)

What is the Most Painful Thing We’ve Ever Endured? (Dec. 21st)

Don’t Go In The Ocean....Ever. (Apr. 28th)

An AI Predicts How We’re Going to Die (Dec. 2nd)

Harnessing Our Yodeling Power to End The World As We Know It (May 21st)

The Creepiest Videos on YouTube (Apr. 16th)

What Does Astrology Say About Our Friendship? (Mar. 12th)

Discovering the Secret to Eternal Life (Feb. 1st)

What Happens When a YouTube Channel Dies? (Jan. 22nd)

5 Weird Apps That Predicted Our Death (Mar. 19th)

Emotional Pain vs. Physical Pain...Which is Worse? (Dec. 28th)

How Tall Can a Human Get?: An Impartial Review By 2 Average Height Men (May 12th)

Will AI Soon Take Over Humanity As We Know It? (Apr. 23rd)

Mark and Ethan Hunt the World’s Most Wanted Criminals (Mar. 17th)

The Illuminati...Do They Really Exist? (Apr. 19th)

We Explore the Most MYSTERIOUS Mysteries of Our Wildly Mysterious Mystery Moon of Mystery (Apr. 29th)

Two Male Men Judge Female Women On Their Beauty (Apr. 26th)

We Have the BEST Thumbnails on YouTube and No One Can Tell Us Otherwise (Jan. 5th)

How Much Caffeine Does It Take to Kill a Man? (May 18th)

There’s Still Hope… (Dec. 8th)

Unus Annus ASMR (May 9th)

The Worst Kind of Cupping (Nov. 21st)

#unus annus #unus annus ranked #the og list took me three days to compile please appreciate this #markiplier #crankgameplays #unus #annus

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ensnaring-birdcages · 6 years

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It’s been a month y’all.

- J and I are officially living together instead of just splitting time. We got our keys exactly a month ago.

- Three days before we got our keys, J’s mom went to the hospital and they weren’t really sure why.

- Turns out it was a fast growing brain tumor. They ended up doing surgery, and got 80-85% out and we were going to go from there. If the surgeon removed anymore, he would have tampered with speech and language.

- We moved all of J’s stuff into the house.

- I had my (very fucking weird) interview for this promotion and then a few days later an even weirder meeting/conference about it.

- We went on our pre-planned 4th of July week vacation, with some slightly altered plans to visit J’s mom more (luckily, my folks and his folks are only a 2.5 hours apart).

- J’s mom was confused, but mostly lucid. Doctors were optimistic about her progress.

- We started to have more serious conversations about moving closer, potentially moving up our engagement/marriage schedule, etc.

- I got that promotion.

- We moved all my stuff in. My mom came down. It was an intense weekend mostly because we butt heads because hashtag similar.

- At this point, we found out that 1. it was a fast growing glioblastoma (aka fast growing brain tumor aka the same cancer John McCain has) and that J’s mom decided not to pursue treatment as that would only put her at an another 9-12 months of life. She decided to go for quality of life at a rehab facility, rather than doing radiation for basically a very weak nine months.

- J got a call Thursday that J’s mom declined rapidly all of a sudden and instead of the previous rehab facility like we thought, she has moved to hospice care.

- So, J’s back in Iowa and now it’s a waiting game. Could be days, could be weeks. Apparently she’s been sleeping all day today.

- Since he’s not my spouse, I can’t take sick or family leave, so I have to use vacation time. And my super conservative boss’ boss has already said, “But you’re not married sooo??” Luckily, my direct supervisor is totally understanding and would probably let me take sick leave anyways and is the one in charge my leave requests.

- Today I went to the mall for a funeral dress (as all my black dresses are too casual or are on the lower cut side) and the woman at Dillard’s was like, “You should try some color! Why are you trying on so many somber dresses?” “Well, my mother-in-law is dying of brain cancer soooo...”

But basically brain cancer is dumb and watching your person go through this is THE WORST and it’s all happened in a month. Like. Jesus.

#life stuff #cancer is dumb

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cybermoonmoon · 3 years

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“...days go by”

It was July 4th two hours ago, and now September is in our faces. With it comes "Labor Day" the "official" end of Summer. Granted summer doesn't really end till September 21st, but ya see what I'm saying. When you're young a year seems like ten years now it's about a half hour. You watch it'll be Christmas in two weeks.

Don't know how many more of the above I'll be seeing. Yeah it's getting on that time. Another old pal is critical, and one was lost in June. Aw well. Been a hell of a ride.

'Been looking at that "Bucket List". Well I was in a police raid of a Gay Bar as a kid. I had lunch a number of times on the ledge of the 86th floor of the Empire State Building back when I was a transmitter engineer. I dangled my feet over the edge while eating pastrami heroes.

Went to a Nude beach with pals for a few summers. Was in a riot, and had a car explode in near me. The fire ball went on forever! Been to any number of "Be-In" events. Ask ya hippy grandma what that was. Had a bullet just miss my head on Albany Avenue in Brooklyn during the 1990's Crack Wars.

It's true what George Washington said about that. Not the Crack wars...bullets. "Fired musket rounds have the Deep Hum of Angry Wasps." ...It did.

I had amazing sex on the outside balcony of a skyscraper in mid-town as a youth. This while a full summer moon rose over the Chrysler Building behind us. There were the green streaks of meteors as well. A night to remember indeed.

I nearly drowned as a lad. I remember being knocked down by a bleeping giant wave. Then being dragged out to sea. I saw bubbles grains of sand seaweed, and that would have been the last thing I saw. However I wasn't getting out of this veil of tears that easy.

‘Cause after the sand, and sea weed came this bleeping big arm with an equally big hand attached to it. There was one of them Army wrist watches on that arm which grabbed me, and hauled my little butt back to the beach. I think I was too freaked out to cry. All I remember is being picked up hauled back up, and passed on to my Mom. I don't remember anything about the man that saved me. Other than his big hairy arm, and his watch.

Mind you I've nearly bought it any number of times since. However that one stays with me. I'm here today to whine, and complain because of some neat guy with big hairy arms. Ain't life something.

Since you're here there's something else on my mind.

This country would be better off certainly more sane if it were smaller. We’re just too damned big violent, and crazy. We’ve got fifty tribes that insanely hate each other. A re-arraignment into autonomous regions might make sense.

We stay one country, but be like Canada, and Québec. Say in my region seven or eight states. New England, and a few others. Toss in New York State Pennsylvania maybe Ohio. See where we go from there.

One the other hand Brooklyn could be it’s own nutty country. I’d run for Congress. Our main exports would be grey market electronics pizza bagels,...with mustard, ganja used bikes, and rats.

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Trash-Talk Tuesday: Inconspicuous Masses

At first glance, Waverley beach park in Kirkland appears to be a well-kept, clean, and -not to mention -newly redesigned park, on the east side of Lake Washington. There is newly renovated playground, covered picnic area, a swimming hole with stairs leading down into the water and a dock to jump in from, and a tiny beach to play in the sand, and where young sailors can launch their boats.

We met some friends for a picnic on a rainy day a few weeks ago, and recently returned to enjoy the easy access to water, now that summer officially landed in Seattle after July 4th.

As my kids dug in the sand, I paced around the small beach, dragging my feet in the pebbles, with no more intention than getting my feet wet to cool. I loosely scanned the ground and noticed a few small pieces of trash, a worn out straw wedged into the rocks, an old bottle cap tangled in the heap of seaweed washing up on the shore, countless pieces of 1cm confetti. My interest sparked.

Visibly, the beach was not full of litter. But as a looked more closely, I started to notice things that didn’t belong, but easily blended into the surroundings: the most common item being that cream colored plastic swisher sweet cigar tip, and separately, the filters.

As I combed through the sand, I’d find small pieces of plastic that stood out, usually, because of their color first, or their indestructible texture, different from a rock or a shell.

I started to get an uneasy feeling in my stomach. I’ve been learning a lot about the current state of the ocean, as a natural result of researching killer whales-the subject of a new contemporary ballet that I start creating tomorrow-I’ve learned about the Great Pacific Garbage patch, the largest of several whirlpools of plastic floating around in the ocean, this one three times the size of Texas. I’ve read about a whale that died as a result of swallowing 75 plastic bags, I’ve seen photos of dead seagulls whose stomach was filled with hundreds tiny shards of plastic they, and other marine life confuse for food. I thought I would have to travel to some obscure island to partake in the beach cleanups to see the devastation of trash that has made its way into our seas.

But here I am, on the beautiful Lake Washington, where with my own two hands (and the help of my 4-year-old daughter) recovering a ghastly amount of plastic waste. I found 253 pieces of trash, 75 of which were small sharp pieces of plastic.

I count each item, regardless of size, separately, because each piece was mined for. It’s not as though it was all sitting in a big, obvious waste pile where someone would think oh, look at this mess, someone should clean it up. As a matter of fact, only 5 of the pieces I recovered were the latter, intact and in plain view. What’s even more shocking is how in such a small space, this beach not exceeding 30 feet in length by 15 foot depth, could hold so much. I spent an hour sifting through a few square feet of it, imagine what might lay beneath the surface, on this small piece of land and what that represents on a larger scale.

Another thing to note, that much of what I found appears to be things that people didn’t intend to leave behind, but got out of sight or seemed to minimal to pick up. Corners of wrappers, a tip of a popped water ballon, a lid...

For once, it felt good to realize first hand that every little bit counts, what you leave behind and what you take with you. We all share this place, and at times, have to be responsible for messes we didn’t make. Next time you are in a park or a public beach, can you please pick up a piece of trash? Even if it wasn’t yours? Even if it seems too small? I promise, someone will thank you, perhaps a whale you may(or may never) see.

Some things we found:

Swisher sweet tips 10

Filters 5

Cigarette butts 3

Foil 5

Corner of plastic wrappers 13

Tip of popped water balloons 2

Plastic tooth cleaners 2

Glass 14 and 2 clay

Sharp plastic 75

Tips to tires air

Chopsticks 2

Straws 3

Seals from bottles

Bottle caps plastic 8

Glitter

Styrofoam 16

Fuzz

Duct tape

Soda can opener 1

Paper 6

Wristbands from concert

One laundry dryer sheet which seemed all the unused and clean

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Life Update 6/13/18

Mentally

It's been a few weeks (6 or more?) since I felt the urge to self harm

Been feeling on the up and up with the sun coming out and all I've been outside alot

Have been a little moody with my pms

I am scared to really admit and properly enjoy how happy I've been lately. Always afraid the moment I relax it will fall apart.

Physically

No idea how much I weigh atm, probably not as much as I want

I know I've gained thigh and butt muscle though from delivering patient trays at work (40hrs a week going up and down stairs)

Started doing push ups every 2-3 days

I think it's helping?

Work

Love working with patients

Trying to transfer into a different department though

Management in the kitchen sucks, I'm tired of the work environment they create

Probably gonna go to classes to get certified in something in the medical field.

Definitely love working at the hospital (benefits are great, most of the people I meet are great)

Romance

Finally admitting to myself that I love my Leprechaun and he loves me and does his best to show he means it.

We made us official again over my birthday weekend.

This time around most of my anxiety that he is going to cheat on me and I must always be prepared for that inevitable has disappeared.

I had to admit that I have communication issues too that I've really been working on. Just yesterday I was able to calmly tell him that one small comment he made had grown in my mind to mean something catastrophic. And he patiently reassured me and now I feel better. That was a huge step for me.

July 4th it will officially be 1 year since we first said "I love you" I'm really happy he lets us go at my pace. Slow and easy.

Parenting

Rowen amazes me every day, both in good ways and in ways that make me face palm

His biggest thing we are working on is focus. Otherwise not much my little man doesn't handle like a champ.

He is smart, funny, caring and independent. Everything I hope for him.

Might need to figure something out with his dad whether it's court ordered visits or just child support. No kid deserves a "one in a while" parent.

Overall as we head into summer I feel I'm doing good. I have alot of plans to accomplish before my winter blues hit, but this year the goal is to be prepared to be miserable for a season 🖒

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Welcome to October 2017!

Hard to believe how quickly this year has flown by. It seems like it gets faster and faster each year. I remember being a kid and feeling like it took forever for Christmas to arrive and now, as an adult, it feels like one minute we’re celebrating the New Year and the next, we’re getting ready for the holidays again.

Today, it’s a gorgeous 73 degrees here along North Carolina’s Crystal Coast and it couldn’t be prettier. It’s a great day to get outside and enjoy the sunshine before the weather begins to turn cooler.

I hope you get a chance to enjoy the weather where you are. October’s going to be a great month! If you’re looking for a few new topics to write about on your blog, these upcoming National Holiday’s will be the fun inspiration you can use to keep things going.

October 2017 Inspiration

October is here. Time to set your monthly goals and plan out this month’s content. We can help. We’ve got this month’s holidays and some content inspiration tips for you.

If you’re looking for a few new topics to write about on your blog, these upcoming National Holiday’s should be a fun way to keep things going. Consider creating a recipe or an impromptu family gathering around some of these. Have fun, and welcome to October 2017!

Here are October 2017’s National Holidays

*Day * – New Proclamation

October 1st

National Hair Day*

Fire Pup Day

National Homemade Cookies Day

October 2nd

National Consignment Day – First Monday in October*

National Custodial Worker’s Recognition Day

National Name Your Car Day

National Fried Scallops Day

National Child Health Day – First Monday in October

October 3rd

National Techies Day

National Boyfriend Day

October 4th

National Taco Day

National Golf Lover’s Day

National Vodka Day

National Walk to School Day – First Wednesday in October

National Pumpkin Seed Day – First Wednesday in October

October 5th

National Get Funky Day *

National Rhode Island Day

National Do Something Nice Day

National Apple Betty Day

October 6th

National Plus Size Appreciation Day *

National Mad Hatter Day

National German-American Day

National Noodle Day

National Manufacturing Day – First Friday in October

October 7th

National LED Light Day *

National Frappe Day

National Inner Beauty Day*

October 8th

National Fluffernutter Day

National Pierogi Day

American Touch Tag Day

Clergy Appreciation Day (or Pastor Appreciation Day or Ministry Appreciation Day)(No official sponsor) – Second Sunday in October

National Leif Erikson Day

National Pro-Life Cupcake Day

National Moldy Cheese Day

National Chess Day

National Online Bank Day* – Second Monday in October

National Kick Butt Day – Second Monday in October

Native American Day– Second Monday in October

Columbus Day – Second Monday in October

October 10th

National Angel Food Cake Day

National Cake Decorating Day

National Handbag Day

October 11th

National Sausage Pizza Day

National Coming Out Day

General Pulaski Memorial Day

National Fossil Day – On Wednesday of Second Full Week in October

National Emergency Nurse’s Day – Second Wednesday in October

National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work/School Day – Second Wednesday in October

National Stop Bullying Day – Second Wednesday in October

National Take Your Parents To Lunch Day – Changes Annually (Tentative 2017 date)

October 12th

National Savings Day*

National Vermont Day

National Freethought Day

National Farmer’s Day

National Gumbo Day

October 13th

National Train Your Brain Day

National Yorkshire Pudding Day

Navy Birthday

National No Bra Day

October 14th

National Dessert Day

Be Bald and Be Free Day

National Costume Swap Day – Second Saturday in October

National Motorcycle Ride Day* – Second Saturday in October

October 15th

National Aesthetician Day*

National Cheese Curd Day

National I Love Lucy Day

National Grouch Day

National Latino AIDS Awareness Day

National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day

National White Cane Safety Day

October 16th

National Liqueur Day

National Dictionary Day

National Feral Cat Day

Department Store Day

Boss’s Day (or National Boss’s Day) – Annually Oct. 16 unless it falls on a weekend. Then it’s the closest workday.

National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day – Third Monday in October

October 17th

National Edge Day

National Mulligan Day

National Pasta Day

Black Poetry Day

Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity – Third Tuesday in October

National Pharmacy Technician Day – Third Tuesday in October

October 18th

National Chocolate Cupcake Day

National No Beard Day

BRA Day USA – Third Wednesday in October

Hagfish Day – Third Wednesday in October

Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce – Third Wednesday in October

Medical Assistants Recognition Day – On Wednesday of Third Full Week in October

October 19th

National Kentucky Day

National Seafood Bisque Day

National LGBT Center Awareness Day

National Get Smart About Credit Day – Third Thursday in October

Get to Know Your Customers Day – Third Thursday of Each Quarter (January, April, July, October)

October 20th

National Brandied Fruit Day

National Mammography Day – Third Friday in October

October 21st

National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day

National Reptile Awareness Day

National Sweetest Day – Third Saturday in October

October 22nd

National Nut Day

National Color Day

National Mother-in-Law Day – Fourth Sunday in October

October 23rd

National Boston Cream Pie Day

National Mole Day

National TV Talk Show Host Day (Johnny Carson’s birthday)

Swallows Depart from San Juan Capistrano Day

iPod Day

October 24th

National Food Day

National Bologna Day

United Nations Day

October 25th

National Greasy Food Day

Sourest Day

Chucky, The Notorious Killer Doll Day

October 26th

National Tennessee Day

National Day of the Deployed

National Mule Day

National Pumpkin Day

National Mincemeat Day

October 27th

National American Beer Day

Navy Day

National Black Cat Day

National Pharmacy Buyer Day – Friday of Last Full Week in October

National Frankenstein Friday – Last Friday in October

National Breadstick Day – Last Friday in October

October 28th

National Chocolate Day

National Make A Difference Day – Fourth Saturday in October

October 29th

National Cat Day

National Oatmeal Day

National Hermit Day

October 30th

National Speak Up For Service Day

National Publicist Day

National Candy Corn Day

October 31st

National Caramel Apple Day

National Knock-Knock Jokes Day

National Magic Day

Girl Scout Founder’s Day

Halloween

October Fun

Do you have anything special planned for October 2017? We’d love to know. Are you heading to any conferences or celebrating anything special? Share it with us in the comments below. Also, if you write a blog post covering any of the holidays above, be sure to share it on our Facebook page in our weekly blog post thread.

October Birthdays

If you have a birthday this month, we’d love to know. Share your birthday with us and be sure to include your twitter name so we can tweet you a happy birthday on your special day.

Enjoy October!

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Welcome to October 2017!

October 2017 Inspiration

October is here. Time to set your monthly goals and plan out this month’s content. We can help. We’ve got this month’s holidays and some content inspiration tips for you.

Here are October 2017’s National Holidays

*Day * – New Proclamation

October 1st

National Hair Day*

Fire Pup Day

National Homemade Cookies Day

October 2nd

National Consignment Day – First Monday in October*

National Custodial Worker’s Recognition Day

National Name Your Car Day

National Fried Scallops Day

National Child Health Day – First Monday in October

October 3rd

National Techies Day

National Boyfriend Day

October 4th

National Taco Day

National Golf Lover’s Day

National Vodka Day

National Walk to School Day – First Wednesday in October

National Pumpkin Seed Day – First Wednesday in October

October 5th

National Get Funky Day *

National Rhode Island Day

National Do Something Nice Day

National Apple Betty Day

October 6th

National Plus Size Appreciation Day *

National Mad Hatter Day

National German-American Day

National Noodle Day

National Manufacturing Day – First Friday in October

October 7th

National LED Light Day *

National Frappe Day

National Inner Beauty Day*

October 8th

National Fluffernutter Day

National Pierogi Day

American Touch Tag Day

Clergy Appreciation Day (or Pastor Appreciation Day or Ministry Appreciation Day)(No official sponsor) – Second Sunday in October

National Leif Erikson Day

National Pro-Life Cupcake Day

National Moldy Cheese Day

National Chess Day

National Online Bank Day* – Second Monday in October

National Kick Butt Day – Second Monday in October

Native American Day– Second Monday in October

Columbus Day – Second Monday in October

October 10th

National Angel Food Cake Day

National Cake Decorating Day

National Handbag Day

October 11th

National Sausage Pizza Day

National Coming Out Day

General Pulaski Memorial Day

National Fossil Day – On Wednesday of Second Full Week in October

National Emergency Nurse’s Day – Second Wednesday in October

National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work/School Day – Second Wednesday in October

National Stop Bullying Day – Second Wednesday in October

National Take Your Parents To Lunch Day – Changes Annually (Tentative 2017 date)

October 12th

National Savings Day*

National Vermont Day

National Freethought Day

National Farmer’s Day

National Gumbo Day

October 13th

National Train Your Brain Day

National Yorkshire Pudding Day

Navy Birthday

National No Bra Day

October 14th

National Dessert Day

Be Bald and Be Free Day

National Costume Swap Day – Second Saturday in October

National Motorcycle Ride Day* – Second Saturday in October

October 15th

National Aesthetician Day*

National Cheese Curd Day

National I Love Lucy Day

National Grouch Day

National Latino AIDS Awareness Day

National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day

National White Cane Safety Day

October 16th

National Liqueur Day

National Dictionary Day

National Feral Cat Day

Department Store Day

Boss’s Day (or National Boss’s Day) – Annually Oct. 16 unless it falls on a weekend. Then it’s the closest workday.

National Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day – Third Monday in October

October 17th

National Edge Day

National Mulligan Day

National Pasta Day

Black Poetry Day

Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity – Third Tuesday in October

National Pharmacy Technician Day – Third Tuesday in October

October 18th

National Chocolate Cupcake Day

National No Beard Day

BRA Day USA – Third Wednesday in October

Hagfish Day – Third Wednesday in October

Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce – Third Wednesday in October

Medical Assistants Recognition Day – On Wednesday of Third Full Week in October

October 19th

National Kentucky Day

National Seafood Bisque Day

National LGBT Center Awareness Day

National Get Smart About Credit Day – Third Thursday in October

Get to Know Your Customers Day – Third Thursday of Each Quarter (January, April, July, October)

October 20th

National Brandied Fruit Day

National Mammography Day – Third Friday in October

October 21st

National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day

National Reptile Awareness Day

National Sweetest Day – Third Saturday in October

October 22nd

National Nut Day

National Color Day

National Mother-in-Law Day – Fourth Sunday in October

October 23rd

National Boston Cream Pie Day

National Mole Day

National TV Talk Show Host Day (Johnny Carson’s birthday)

Swallows Depart from San Juan Capistrano Day

iPod Day

October 24th

National Food Day

National Bologna Day

United Nations Day

October 25th

National Greasy Food Day

Sourest Day

Chucky, The Notorious Killer Doll Day

October 26th

National Tennessee Day

National Day of the Deployed

National Mule Day

National Pumpkin Day

National Mincemeat Day

October 27th

National American Beer Day

Navy Day

National Black Cat Day

National Pharmacy Buyer Day – Friday of Last Full Week in October

National Frankenstein Friday – Last Friday in October

National Breadstick Day – Last Friday in October

October 28th

National Chocolate Day

National Make A Difference Day – Fourth Saturday in October

October 29th

National Cat Day

National Oatmeal Day

National Hermit Day

October 30th

National Speak Up For Service Day

National Publicist Day

National Candy Corn Day

October 31st

National Caramel Apple Day

National Knock-Knock Jokes Day

National Magic Day

Girl Scout Founder’s Day

Halloween

October Fun

October Birthdays

If you have a birthday this month, we’d love to know. Share your birthday with us and be sure to include your twitter name so we can tweet you a happy birthday on your special day.

Enjoy October!

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Hello all! I've posted to entrepreneur in the past and have always receive lots and lots of questions about what I did and how I did it, so here it goes. I apologize for the very informal formatting! These are just coming out from the top of my head.A small bit about our Los Angeles based company and myself: I operate and own The Parks Apparel - an outdoor lifestyle brand that sells lifestyle clothing and accessories. I began The Parks with 2 other investors (aka friends who for some reason trusted me) with less than $6K in cash. I am the only full-time employee and I run virtually every aspect of the company. I launched our instagram @theparksapparel in February of 2016, and our website http://ift.tt/2kEmrsL officially launched on July 21st of 2016 and has been doing much better than anticipated ever since! We now grow about 1,100 followers weekly.Now onto why you're reading this: how we reached over 34K organic and engaged followers on Instagram in under 7 months (and how you can too!).First question: Why Instagram? Instagram is free visual marketing. Since we are an apparel business, it's crazy important that visually we sell ourself to consumers and other businesses. Twitter isn't as much use to us as it considered a "dying" platform whereas Instagram and Snapchat are growing. Moreover, the twitter demographic isn't necessarily our market. If you've done your research and you know a large share of your market can be found on Instagram, read on! Otherwise, the rest of the following info may not be of much use to yo.So you know that you want to build your social media following. But why does it matter how many followers you have? Conversion, reputation and retention. Many brands don't bother with their social media, but if your sole platform of selling is online, you better bet that your social media is arguably the most important aspect of your company. How else will anyone know who you are? By building a social media following, others can get a solid understanding of company reputation and credibility."So can I just buy a butt load of followers and call it a day?" Absolutely not. We've seen so many brands do this but more followers does not equate to more purchases or more reputation. When a brand has over 50K followers averaging 600 likes and 4 comments a photo, the math just doesn't add up. Go see for yourself: if you're following any brands on Instagram, chances are a large majority of their followers were purchased. A solid engagement ratio for brands is about 5-15% likes per photo of total follower amount (if you're a half naked female Instagram model, the numbers are significantly larger). Comments are a bit trickier, but we've found that about .5 - 1 comment per 1k followers is about right. Obviously, these numbers fluctuate depending on the content.The point is that you can't just buy a ton of followers and expect buyers. You may be able to fool other users, but you won't be fooling other brand influencers and other large brands (more on them later). They've had enough experience and analytics to know who is fake and who isn't and it will determine whether others will want to work with your company in the future.So what did I do to build the initial following for The Parks Apparel? I forced all my friends and family and all of their friends and families family to follow our brand. We were able to amass a small following of over 2,000 in the first 3 months! But we needed more to build a reputation.What did we post starting out? Apparel of other brands. We didn't have any of our own apparel at the time, so we just posted photos of apparel we loved and wanted to possibly emulate down the line. If you don't have any tangible products yet, post photos that relate directly to your brand and your audience.Important Do not post potato photos (if you're not familiar with Reddit terms, it means it looks like the photo was taken through a potato - it looks like shit). Do not do this - ever! It degrades your quality as a brand. Instagram is a direct way for others to get a visual quality of your brand. Don't have a good camera? Hire someone to take good photos of your products. Don't want to hire someone? Then don't start a business. You won't sell anything taking iPhone photos of your blade-less knives.What did we do? We hired Instagram influencers. Now here's where a lot of brands mess-up.... "Let's hire the hottest girls with the biggest butts and the biggest followings! She has like 500K followers and we can just pay her $5000 and be on our way!" Don't do this. Don't hire someone who's entire profile is COMPLETELY different from your products (unless you're selling butt pants). Start small. About our 5th or 6th month in, we hired 2 social media influencers who had amassed a small organic following of around 15k each (remember, organic means more likely to engage which means more likely to purchase). Their images were high quality, and their engagement ratio was prime. More importantly, they took photos that directly related to our market. What you pay them is up to you, but a good payment method to go off of is $100 per per post per 10k followers. However, it entirely depends on your agreement with them.Speaking of influencers, this is where the whole organic thing gets really important. Sally the photographer/model with over 140K followers built her reputation over the course of 5 years. She knows it takes some damn hard work. She knows what it looks like to have 30K followers and 5,000 like and 50 comments per photo. If Sally sees your brand, Blade Less Knives Co. with 30K followers and 700 likes and 4 comments per photo, she won't trust you no matter how pretty your photos look. She won't want to work with you, and she won't reply to your DM (Don't buy followers!). Same thing goes for brands - they'll know if your followers are real or not, and they'll refuse to participate on a promotion or crossover with you. Speaking of promotions....Giveaways. Giveaways are a fantastic way to build engagement. Here is one thing that I don't recommend doing: a giveaway of an item everyone wants. We ended up doing a giveaway about our 4th or 5 month in with a GoPro Hero 4 Session. "But if everyones wants it, won't I gain a massive amount of real follower?" Yes you will - and then you will immediately lose them once the giveaway is over. Yes our market is outdoor lifestyle apparel, but everyone and their grandmas want a free GoPro. We'll lost probably 60% of our new followers from this giveaway. The value and payoff just isn't there. If you do ending up doing a giveaway, schedule them out and do 1 or 2 a month. This entices others to stay tuned to your Instagram feed so they don't miss out on any new freebies coming their way. Another way to increase engagement rate is to partner with a brand with a similar market or even a competitor. Why a competitor? They have the same exact market as you, and while you may be "giving" the competitor customers, you're also gaining their customers. It evens out.You can also partner with influencers to do giveaways. However, the payoff isn't quite as nice as partnering with another brand. A brands market is more focused to your market than an influencer is. Those following a competing brand are ready to make a purchase.That's all for this post! Ask me anything in the comments below. If there is enough interest I can make a Part 2 in a separate post or in the comments section. It will be about how to make an engaging post and then some.

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