PhotoJoseph

Following on #honeygate (yes I'm calling that hashtag now) I'm digging into my own historical affiliate income data. I knew that I felt my affiliate income dropped and never recovered at some point, and the data proves that. Around the beginning of 2021 my affiliate income dropped and never recovered -- and of course over this time, my audience and viewership grew, so this should have been the opposite. On its own it's certainly not proof of Honey interference, but it's data, and I encourage other creators to look into their own data and see if you detect a similar trend. This data represents affiliate earnings from Jan 2017 to Nov 2024. Blue line is monthly income; red line is a four month moving average. PayPal acquisition of Honey (Jan 2020) COVID lockdown (March 2020), and affiliate income drop (beginning 2021) are highlighted here. I removed affiliate income that could not have been affected by Honey, and while this may not be a perfect graph, I feel confident in its relevance. You can see a pretty clear trend upwards, which spiked during the first year of COVID, but then fell and never recovered, and could even be called a constant down trend. 2024 is the worst year since 2017. In the event you don't know what this is about… x.com/photojoseph/st…

@MarcSettle They have.

Yes we can send humans back to the Moon but has no-one managed to invent a microphone that can cope with the noise of a rocket taking off…?

Morning walk, Deček z grozdom (Gabrijel), Maribor Slovenia

Morning walk, Love on Studenška brv, Maribor Slovenia

Morning walk, the babies are coming!, Maribor, Slovenia

Official statement: We can confirm DeLorean had nothing to do with this. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Morning walk, City Park, Maribor Slovenia

Morning walk, City Park, Maribor Slovenia

Is anyone else experiencing Siri voice to text being completely whacked lately? I used to use it all the time then suddenly a month or so ago it just broke. I’ve reset dictionary; about the only recommendation that applied.

Morning walk, Drava river, Maribor Slovenia

Morning walk, Spomenik Antonu Martinu Slomšku, Maribor Slovenia

I don’t know if this is true, but this article says that Star Trek’s teleporter was “Born out of the show’s need to save money rendering ship landings…”. How cool is that — the most iconic sci-fi way to travel was invented because of budget constraints. apple.news/AzLByxcvyRqCIw….

Morning walk, River Drava, Maribor Slovenia

Morning walk, Leon Štukelj, 1898-1999 (City Park), Maribor Slovenia

Morning walk, Frančiškanska cerkev in Mariborski Grad, Maribor Slovenia

Morning walk, Cerkev Svete Barbare na Kalvariji (from Piramida), Maribor Slovenia

@MarcSettle That’s not much of a holiday. The news never rests, eh?

@photojoseph There are Adriatic ones but we’d need to get to eg Trieste first and flights are the problem. We have to go from Southampton and the length of holiday we can have prevents us getting much further than southern Spain before we have to turn around. Told you it was tedious.

Morning walk, Drava, Maribor Slovenia

@MarcSettle That is tedious. Although I’m sure there’s an Adriatic cruise out there. The closeness of all those photos is astounding. All within a 45 minute (round trip!) walk from the city center.

@photojoseph I would really love to. But for tedious reasons, my holidays need to be cruises and Slovenia is almost entirely devoid of coastline.

@MarcSettle Come over and I’ll give you a personal tour

@photojoseph Can you plot all these locations on a google map…?

Morning walk, City Park, Maribor Slovenia