{"id":17898,"date":"2025-07-21T22:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=17898"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:59:10","slug":"literally-copying-what-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/literally-copying-what-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Literally Copying What Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be this trend recently of dating shows online that consist of people holding balloons and then popping them if they don\u2019t like the candidate on display.  It can get shocking when they pop the balloon based on quick superficial details about the person as an example which I guess is the entertaining part about it.  So you can imagine there are a lot of people just copying the format as that\u2019s usually one way to semi ensure success where one tries to follow a trend.<\/p>\n<p>But what I thought was interesting is how a lot of people also copied the format but just replaced the balloon with some object such as a glass cup where people drop it if they don\u2019t like the candidate.  That is more dramatic with the drop of course.  They pretty much didn\u2019t need to really think of a new concept in general versus just dressing it up differently.<\/p>\n<p>That is a thing too where for many if you are just looking for some quick wins and maybe make some sales based on a trend then simply copying what works for the most part with a twist works for many a you can see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be this trend recently of dating shows online that consist of people holding balloons and then popping them if they don\u2019t like the candidate on display. It can get shocking when they pop the balloon based on quick superficial details about the person as an example which I guess is the entertaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[8121],"class_list":["post-17898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-copying"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-4EG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17899,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions\/17899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}