Sure, I like it when a photo makes Flickr’s Explore, but I’m not rabid about it, and I don’t check Scout every time I upload new stuff to see whether anything made it. It’s an interesting curiosity, that’s all. There are people who seem to think it’s some sort of “badge of honour” or that it means their photo is particularly good. Not so. Not so at all. If that were the case, this would not have made it, and yet, it did.

1. It’s obviously a snapshot taken indoors with whatever flash was on the camera.
2. Date stamp. Come on…who doesn’t know how to turn off the goddamned date stamp?
3. Points awarded for composition…zero, because it’s terrible. Looks like she’s sitting on the old chesterfield in somebody’s basement rec room.
4. The model. Christ, that poor pig-snouted fattie-beast hit every branch on the fugly tree when she fell out. Her eyes are shut, she has moles that would have me making an appointment with a dermatologist, and when your face is that round, “flat” is not a good hairstyle. The giant blobs of fat that pass for her boobs are (sort of) held in place by the sprung elastic of that old bra.

That, “my friends” (hey, it works for McInsane!) is why Explore doesn’t matter, and why people should pay no attention whatsoever to whether or not their photos make it in. Besides, it’s easy to game with a little careful group-whoring, but B. found out the hard way that when you group whore, you’d best be prepared to keep putting the time and effort into group-whoring because if you don’t, your views and comments will drop significantly when your “fair-weather Flickr friends” don’t return to see your new stuff. 😉