Dan, WTFmaster General of the Dadosphere Army, is begging his superfans to help omgsaaaave his blog, “Single Dad Laughing“. You see, according to Dan, blogging has been ruined by sites like Mashable and Buzzfeed because such sites force all bloggers to put out crappy content as often as possible just to compete. That’s right – the quality of Dan’s blog sucks now because, Buzzfeed:

These sites (each which generate tens of millions in revenue each year) have all but destroyed the ability that so many of us writers and bloggers and Internet entertainers previously had to stay relevant, and they have done it by developing a ruthless yet simple business plan…come up with mindless, cheap, random content, pump it out at the tune of often 30 or more new posts per hour…

Of course that didn’t stop him from initially trying to play their detestable game by chucking out his own “mindless content posts”:

At first I just introduced one here or there, supplementing the usual Single Dad Laughing blog posts. And, I learned, that doing that both drives traffic, but also drives the time commitment to this blog.

Evidently it didn’t work as well as he wanted, so now he suddenly feels like “a sell-out”. Dan also claims the captains of industry in this new world of content factories are driving down ad prices because “advertisers don’t necessarily like putting premium ads onto cheap mindless content”. So poor Dan isn’t making money anymore because, Mashable or something. (Though, confusingly, he also said these content farms “generate tens of millions in revenue each year”. So apparently someone is making money, it just isn’t Dan.)

And the worst part? Facebook is out to destroy bloggers by changing their algorithm!

…Facebook came along while I was on that sabbatical last month and nailed yet another big fat nail into the Single Dad Laughing coffin. They drastically changed the algorithm…now showing my links to (maybe) 20% of the people it was before the algorithm change, and unless I pay big bucks to have my posts show up in people’s feeds, there’s not much I can do about it.

What can be done to  help you, Dan? asked nobody. Well, Dan will tell you – basically, you need to ‘like’ everything he posts on Facebook, and comment on everything he posts on facebook. Not just “once or twice, and not just do them for a week or two, but to actively remember to do them forever. It’s the only way this will work.” FOREVER, folks. You have to do this for everything from Dan, forever.

If we work together, it means higher quality blog posts from me. Fewer of my links clogging your feeds. Fewer memes to keep it all going. It means more engaging updates and witty statuses.

Ok, can someone explain to me why he can’t just start offering better quality content and fewer memes and more engaging updates…without making his readers do all this work? It just seems to me that begging people for likes and comments isn’t particularly organic and most likely won’t be a lasting solution. Why not just get back to producing something worth reading and seeing how that goes first? Serious question.

Bleubird, previously known as Bleubird Vintage before her rebrand, had a bad Saturday. It seems her one year old son needed five stitches on his head, and was rushed to the emergency room. According to her husband:

Little sailor took a nasty spill in the kitchen and needed 5 stitches on his forehead…Sailor was a champ and was flirting with every nurse there.

It appears from this picture that Mr. Bleubird had to hold the child down, and Miss James did what any mother would do – stood back and captured the moment for instagram.

Because obviously when your husband is pinning your screaming baby down while his head is sewn up, the first thing that crosses your mind is documenting the moment for your fangirls. Hooray for the internets!

Jordan Reid, self-titled ‘chic mom’, has been in taped-down-snooze-button mode for about year. Now it seems she’s finally doing something about it – announcing her second pregnancy via extremely odd youtube video, where she informs us that doctor’s visits are ‘the worst’.

She’s apparently a couple months along now, and already whining about omg two kids under three while her husband is living in another state attending business school omg already frazzled you guys. Which, ya know, is stuff most people think about beforehand but since Jordan can’t even figure out how door locks work, I’m not sure how up to speed she is on family planning.

Anyway, congrats I guess. Shillshackle Sham must be as lucrative as Post Its if Jordo’s able to support two kids, two dogs, a mortgage, and a husband at Yale. You know, without any help from their parents at all.