NPO #34: State Of the 300 Grand Update

Article by Sean Wilkinson,
a.k.a. The Ticketmaster.

I don't know exactly which Tuesday I'm posting this on because at the time I am writing this, Just the Ticket is around two hundred views short of hitting 300K.
But back when I did a TBT '25 push of Just the Ticket #66: State of the Grand Address, I promised to do an updated version to show you all where things are thirteen years later.
First, let's look at every stat and review I mentioned in that original post and compare them to how far the blog has come since.
In 2012, Just the Ticket had passed eight thousand all-time pageviews for its first ten months. As of now, well, you know what milestone we're at now because it's in the title. And that's a hundred thousand more views than I had around this time last year. My Slither review, then just past the 200 mark, now sits at over 2100 views. After a dirty joke about the disturbing love life of an egg, my A Little Bit Of Heaven issue went on a little bit of a viral streak that jumped it from 107 views to over fifteen hundred. Next in the November 2012 rankings was I Don't Know How She Does It, which was sitting at 85 and is now languishing at 311 (come original...). Then we have Bring Back the Soundtrack's REM issue, which was slightly behind that one at eighty-four, but has since accelerated to over nine hundred views. I also gave honorable mention to my original Spider-Man: Then & Now post, which made an early impression by garnering thirty views in its first two days and currently sits at 175, and to my Burn Notice review (which I wasn't able to find definitive early analytics on, but it was just under thirty after being in publication for two months or so, and now sits at 190 views).
Now for the placement changes that have taken...place, and changed, in the intervening years.
I've noticed that I'm seeing a discrepancy in view counts between my Dashboard and my Stats page (my Dashboard shows higher numbers), and the Dashboard doesn't offer a way to sort posts by view count, so I'm sharing these new rankings by Stats page numbers.
Slither has almost always been in the top spot and may continue to be there for all time. But thanks to my paid SEO, an alcohol-accompanied gambling relapse, and my pancreas and gall bladder trying to kill me for it, the views accumulated for six months on Chucky: F Is For Finale, causing it to push its way into second place with over fourteen hundred views, knocking the previous second and third place contenders down a peg.
My top ten most viewed posts (as of this writing, and according to Stats page rankings) are as follows:
So ends this special milestone acknowledgement of the past and present State Of the (300) Grand here at Just the Ticket. I had hoped for continued exponential growth through my expanded range of social media promotions, but life (and one's expectations vs. reality disillusionment with said life once burnout sets in and the world voluntarily sets itself on fire) tends to change things for the stagnant. Life likes linearity and harmonics, not me inserting obligatory Simpsons' meme here:
But that doesn't mean I shouldn't still insert call to action here by asking you all to please remember to Become A Ticketholder if you haven't already, leave a comment at the bottom of this post and any others you have opinions about, help out my ad revenue as you read so I can afford peace of mind, and follow me on BlueSky, Tumblr, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, and LinkedIn to like what you see and receive the latest news on my content.

Ticketmaster,
Out.

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