The Silence of Blogs: Where Are the Bloggers Now?

Since the rise of AI everywhere, it feels like blogs are becoming less needed, and it seems like there are fewer and fewer writers around. Honestly, as someone who has been blogging since around 2015, I feel kind of sad. Not only because I never got the chance to monetize it (lol), but also because I feel like the opportunity to grow is shrinking, especially with the number of readers decreasing day by day.

Even if it couldn’t be monetized, I’d still be grateful just knowing that someone out there is reading it. But yeah, now that we’ve been pushed aside by more advanced technology that seems “less prone” to errors—like AI—it’s getting harder to find a “market” that’s genuinely interested in reading something like a blog. Especially here in Indonesia, where the reading interest is already low. Add the lightning-fast information absorption through AI (without needing to dig through search engines like Google), and it just makes the position of blog writers even more of a struggle.

On the flip side though, I still feel like blogs are like little heart-to-heart whispers—something you can’t really find in any AI. No matter how beautiful or smart an essay written by AI might be, it’ll always lack that human touch. It might come close, almost touching it—but it’ll never be the same as something written by a real person. After all, AIs just pull data from what people have made, categorize it, process it, and then stitch it all together into a full piece.

Whereas human writing, even when it’s messy or random, still has that human value—because it was written by a real person, someone alive, someone who’s gone through things and felt what they were writing about, haha.

Still, I sometimes hope that one day Google will start pushing default-domain blogs like those on blogspot.com to show up again on the front page of search results—instead of prioritizing expensive paid domains and AI-generated summaries that quote things from who-knows-where.