How to get more followers as a curator?

[Volcanic ツ]

Disclaimer: I'm not asking you to follow mine.

I'm asking for information, please.

How do people end up with a crazy number of followers on their curator, like 10k?

Thanks

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

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Disclaimer: I'm not asking you to follow mine.

I'm asking for information, please.

How do people end up with a crazy number of followers on their curator, like 10k?

Thanks

Spam memes like Commander Shepard.

[Volcanic ツ]

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Spam memes like Commander Shepard.

:summercat2023:

I'm sure there are better ways than memes. I just wish I knew what.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

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Spam memes like Commander Shepard.

I'm sure there are better ways than memes. I just wish I knew what.

The new way of the net is to meme or take a hard stance on the left or right and roll with it.

[Volcanic ツ]

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I'm sure there are better ways than memes. I just wish I knew what.

The new way of the net is to meme or take a hard stance on the left or right and roll with it.

:summercat2023:

okay
This isn't a post in Off Topic, so please don't turn it into a political debate.

You mentioned memes twice now. Any other ideas or just the one repeated over and over?
Looking for different answers as of now.

[Vann]

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Disclaimer: I'm not asking you to follow mine.

I'm asking for information, please.

How do people end up with a crazy number of followers on their curator, like 10k?

Thanks

Hey there Volcanic!

There's no easy way, really. It is a natural process - creation of a Curator group and site - for those who already have YouTube review channels or blogs. It's easy then. Just ask already existing followers to join.

If you do not have such - start with your pals! Ask them to give you a follow. Be regular, write reviews truthfully. Be patient: the more reviews you have, the more views you are going to be given - and more chances for others to notice you.

Write longer reviews under your own acount - and link to your Curator's site. Write informational reviews on upcoming games: people are interested, they are checking out what Curators think about these AAA titles that will come out next month.

Tag your Curator group/link to your Curator site in your own profile. If you'll be active on Steam, it will lead people to your profile and then - there.

It is an arduous process and likely will take long months before you'll gather a small group - but it's satisfying to see numbers rise.

Wishing you best of luck!

[Volcanic ツ]

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İlk olarak Volcanic tarafından gönderildi:

Disclaimer: I'm not asking you to follow mine.

I'm asking for information, please.

How do people end up with a crazy number of followers on their curator, like 10k?

Thanks

Hey there Volcanic!

There's no easy way, really. It is a natural process - creation of a Curator group and site - for those who already have YouTube review channels or blogs. It's easy then. Just ask already existing followers to join.

If you do not have such - start with your pals! Ask them to give you a follow. Be regular, write reviews truthfully. Be patient: the more reviews you have, the more views you are going to be given - and more chances for others to notice you.

Write longer reviews under your own acount - and link to your Curator's site. Write informational reviews on upcoming games: people are interested, they are checking out what Curators think about these AAA titles that will come out next month.

Tag your Curator group/link to your Curator site in your own profile. If you'll be active on Steam, it will lead people to your profile and then - there.

It is an arduous process and likely will take long months before you'll gather a small group - but it's satisfying to see numbers rise.

Wishing you best of luck! :guardian:

Hello, Vann!
Thank you for taking the time. I appreciate how sincere and detailed your response is.

I've done about half of your (very useful) suggestions: Detailed, honest reviews + Curator + linking it in my profile + being a bit active on Steam + asking my friends to join (once or twice --I'd hate to ask more / spam them).

What I'm missing is having my own YT channel and blog. I keep postponing both because I feel that they're a whole other uphill climb.

Writing Informational reviews in my curator for new releases is something I didn't consider before, so thanks for this tip. I'm weary of doing so though because who knows what a game would be like before playing it? I don't want to assume it'd be good and then ... !

I completely agree with you, especially about how it's an arduous, long process that takes months upon months, just to see the follower counter go from 2 to 20.

P.S. I wish I could award your reply but I'm all out of points, sorry!

[matt]

There's a curator account for the Turn-Based Tactics group. The group is active, and the genre itself is reasonably popular. The curator account has 10K followers. I don't follow the curator, but I check it occasionally for suggestions. The reviews are relevant to my interests, don't blather for 10+ paragraphs, and show both an understanding and love for the genre.

From glancing over your profile, I have no idea what kinds of games you review. I'd consider that an issue. Assuming you review the kinds of games that I like, I'd expect you to be just as insightful and knowledgeable.

For example, if you're reviewing roguelike games, I'd expect you to have played and won Rogue so you could speak from an informed position. If you're just some random dude reviewing roguelike games, I can get that from anyone on Steam. You'd need to give me something I can't get from the average Steam user.

[Volcanic ツ]

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There's a curator account for the Turn-Based Tactics group. The group is active, and the genre itself is reasonably popular. The curator account has 10K followers. I don't follow the curator, but I check it occasionally for suggestions. The reviews are relevant to my interests, don't blather for 10+ paragraphs, and show both an understanding and love for the genre.

From glancing over your profile, I have no idea what kinds of games you review. I'd consider that an issue. Assuming you review the kinds of games that I like, I'd expect you to be just as insightful and knowledgeable.

For example, if you're reviewing roguelike games, I'd expect you to have played and won Rogue so you could speak from an informed position. If you're just some random dude reviewing roguelike games, I can get that from anyone on Steam. You'd need to give me something I can't get from the average Steam user.

Thanks for the insights.

You raise some good points, namely knowledge/understanding of the genre being reviewed, specialization, and having something unique to offer.

All valid except IMHO the last one. There are so many reviewers and almost none of them has something unique to offer. Don't get me wrong; some are very good, excellent even, but not unique in any way I can tell. I'm curious if you can maybe provide an example of a unique curator or reviewer?

I appreciate you taking the time to peek at my profile but you suggesting my profile doesn't point the visitor to a specific genre or type of games I like or specialize in is a bit too much to ask if I may say so.
Why? Because I don't intend on pigeon-holing myself into a certain genre now or in the future. That's regardless of how much I enjoy it or how much I know about its mechanics and history or how many of its titles I 100% on or off Steam.

There's nothing wrong if someone specializes in what they review but that's not for me because I would get bored of playing the same type of game loop over and over and over; let alone reviewing each game I mind-numbingly play at a certain point just because it's my supposed specialty.

By the way, just out of curiosity, how come you don't follow the curator you're interested in? For anyone, it's simply a click of the button once and they still can check the curator manually if they so desire.

I do appreciate your input; it's very welcome. I guess it's a matter of different strokes for different folks.