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You know that feeling you get when you're writing up something really beautiful, like the Mona Lisa of written works. And you’re like ‘WOAH this is fire! The whole world’s gonna love this and I’ll be famous!’

Then you get cold feet fingers and hover over the enter button to submit it online…

But then you remember that this is a big deal and YOLO and all that which gives you a push over the edge… Then you post it! HURRAY! Screenshot that stuff, girl!

4 hours later, you're anxious and can’t sleep. You decide to grow a pair and go check up on the post to see how it’s doing…

2 views. 0 comments.

Then you’re like: Hey, ‘2 people viewed it! That's something!’ until your ditsy blond headed butt realizes that those two views were from yourself!

GAH!

I don’t understand what I did wrong. This was THE Comet Hub forum specifically for posting up amateur astronomy discoveries, so I should have had a million views by now. And if I wanted to believe Hade, NASA themselves should have gotten in touch with me already.

Maybe it was just a slow night. I mean, I didn’t post until around 10 pm, so it probably didn’t have much visibility.

Wait, wouldn’t 10 pm in Japan be morning in the US? Hmm… Most people probably aren’t even awake yet.

Huh? Oh, somebody named PapaRayGamer just posted that his daughter’s first words were “shooting star” while they recorded a real shooting star in the sky…

Twenty thousand likes in under thirty minutes. A quarter as many comments.

Oh come on! A toddler get’s more recognition than me!?

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I mean, I get it. That’s probably more interesting than some rando account named ‘PerseusLover’ talking about some boring comet that she probably hallucinated while acclimating to foreign tap water…

But, like, my post was up there for hours and nobody even bothered to leave a comment saying: ‘Oh, wow, PerseusLover! Your data is so indisputably amazing and you are awesome for discovering a comet that even the best eyes at NASA could never have dreamed of noticing! Here, allow me to send you a job application so you can prove your dummy dad wrong that astronomy is actually a safe and profitable line of work!’

Don’t know how they were supposed to know I had daddy issues, but my point still remains.

I just couldn’t stand the lack of recognition, especially after all that work I put into the document with all the data of my findings.

Was Hade just blowing hot air all along about this?

I texted that himbo a piece of my mind!

Me: -YOU’RE A BIG BAKA LIAR!-

Baka Head: -Woah, hey Meda! Texting at full force tonight, aren’t we?-

Me: -Shush up, Baka! Nobody is reading my post and a pipsqueak’s mumbles are more popular!-

Baka Head: -Ahhh, yep. You’ve got terrible visibility luck as a content creator.-

Me: -What am I, a Nootuber? I’m trying to make a big discovery public here!ヽ༼ಠ益ಠ༽ﾉ-

Baka Head: -Cool those engines, speed racer. Listen, just because you didn’t get beginner's luck, doesn’t mean we can’t force big things to happen.-

Me: -Oh, that makes it all OK then. We can just force me to be famous like it’s the simplest thing in the world ಠ-ಠ -

Baka Head: -Did you forget who your man here is? I’ve got a platform an

Me: -DO. NOT. REFER. TO. YOURSELF. AS. ‘MY MAN!!!!’╰༼ =0ਊ0=༽╯-

Baka Head: -Hee hee sorry ;)-

Baka Head: -Anyways, you’re an unknown who just made a single post out of nowhere. No offense, but it’s not immediately interesting enough to grab people’s attention right away. What if everything you posted was a lie? I bet they have to test it too. That takes time.-

Baka Head: -Unless you know how to play the system, people are going to overlook it as just another fish in the pond-

Baka Head: -But that’s where I come in. I’ve got a platform and am giving you a shoutout. Once everyone listening to me hears about the post you made, you’ll get some attention. And trust me, with what I read of it, you’ll do great.-

Me: -You really think so? I’m feeling kinda’ sick right now, honestly (￣x￣;)-

Baka Head: -I do think so. But can I make some suggestions?-

Me: -Is that code for saying it actually sucks-

Baka Head: -Nah. LOL Just think you could grab some Gen Alpha eyes a little better with memes’n stuff. If you want your name to spread quickly, you gotta’ get the young on your train.-

Me: -That’s silly, but you’re the one with experience-

Baka Head: -I am pretty experienced, aren’t I?-

Me: -Don’t push it wise guy ʘ‿ʘ-

Me: -...-

Me: -Fine. Send me some memes to pepper in-

Me: -Also, thank you so much, Hade. You’ve been such a big help to me-

Baka Head: -My pleasure, Meda. If you want to thank me, how about we keep comet hunting together? Next time, let’s make it after 6, okay? We’ll probably see more stuff later in the night ;D-

Me: -Ha ha! Yeah, if dad let’s me after what we’re about to do tomorrow-