When I say I was โnever popular,โ to be fair that isnโt actually true. Back in the heyday of blogs, my site got thousands of visitors a day and dozens of comments. That was in 2002-2005. Then I shut that one down. About that time, blogs started their long slide and never recovered.
I also did guest posts on some (at the time) major blogs. The internet was a whole lot better back then.