A FULL CIRCLE

Back in the 90's I was checking out a cool new clothing brand called SHIFT. I guess the name stood for a shift to a new more advanced state of awesomeness or something.

Looking at the SHIFT Logo I was Inspired to set up a website (we didn't used to call them blogs back then) called SIFT, meaning to sift around looking for interesting stuff.

I removed the H from shift and made my own versions of the logo in red & blue & purple rather than grey. When my blog later became quite popular I ended up printing SIFT T-shirts in a range of colours!

Around that time I also started going by the online alias SIFT but often found when I was signing up for accounts on platforms like g-mail that the name SIFT was already taken.

Even back then I was aware that there were try hard satanists lurking all over the internet and the circular logo of Google stood for 666, so I started calling myself “sift666” because that name was usually available. 

Actually I started calling myself about a dozen different online names but the sift666 one stuck.

Later, on a new blockchain platform, my sift666 name worked out very well because a bunch of the insiders fancied themselves as satanists, and thought I must be one of them as well. 

That was great for a while but I didn't realise that they really did consider themselves to be actual satanists. I thought they were just mocking the retarded satanists like I was, and we were all on the same page. Up until I did a post openly ridiculing satanists, and all of a sudden I was the anti-satan, so I was blacklisted from the platform.

Jump forward a decade and a friend started calling me “sifty”, meaning someone who lurks about not getting much done. A very appropriate name really.

Then I told her about my old blog where I used to have 800 misspelled porn search tags aimed at attracting illiterate google porn searchers, which got millions of hits up until Google blacklisted it. Notice a pattern here?

Anyway, after hearing that, she started calling me “shifty”, as in someone dodgy and cunning, who tricks satanic corporations online. Even more appropriate!

Then I realised I've nearly gone full circle from SHIFT to SIFT, and onward to SIFTY and then SHIFTY which is nearly right back to SHIFT again.

Over the past decade my blog hits have gone down from hundreds of thousands per year to bugger all, but now they seem to be going back up again.

After nearly three decades of battling my evil nemesis Google online, I've come to the conclusion that Google may be evil but I am shifty.

 

WHY I USE BLOGGER

I'm certainly no fan of Google, my evil online nemesis, but having posted on WordPress quite a lot in the past, along with a few other platforms, I am still a fan of Blogger. This article is a good summary of what I like about it:
 

Is Blogger Still a Thing in 2026?

Blogger remains a relevant platform even in a highly competitive 2026 market. It has earned a well-deserved spot in online publishing for a reason. It is an excellent platform for newbie bloggers who are kicking off new blogs and want to get their content established online. 

The fact is that Blogger’s official positioning is surprisingly clear and current for 2026, and that is one of the primary reasons why it has remained relevant to this day. 

Blogger is a free tool where you can create a blog, choose your unique design, publish on a Blogspot address or a custom domain, and earn through AdSense if eligible. 

On top of all that, it offers ample opportunity to understand your readers through built-in analytics, to connect to Google Analytics, and safely store posts and photos with Google.

Blogger is home to millions of publishers, which is clear proof that it is far from a forgotten early web tool. The platform offers bloggers and influencers many benefits thanks to its clear positioning.

The moment you stop looking at Blogger through its trend value and start seeing it for its practical value, you will quickly realise its purpose. 

In 2026, the discussion around blogging and content creation is focused on ecosystems, subscriptions, newsletters, communities, and content machines. Yes, some creators do need those things. But as it stands, there are also many who don’t. 

A lot of creators simply want a dependable place to publish their hard and thoughtful work. They also want to be able to organise their work and build an archive that is not locked inside a feed. That is exactly the sort of job Blogger still does well.

What Makes Blogger Relevant Today

Blogger remains a well-used blogging site because it has a very low barrier to entry for first-time users, using its standard functions. 

That means you don’t have to pay for web-hosting or find your own template for your blog; you can start by choosing from a variety of pre-designed templates, changing their layout to suit your needs, post content quickly, and if you decide you want a more polished image, you are free to change that BlogSpot domain name to something else. 

The information on the “about page” is very straightforward and does not overcomplicate the feature mentioned above. Blogger offers simple publishing, flexible design, audience insights, payment through AdSense if that is applicable to your purpose and long-term storage through Google. Simplicity will always be useful and appealing.

There is also a wider cultural reason Blogger still matters. There are many digital platforms available today that provide individuals the opportunity to share their ideas and expertise, but few allow the individual to truly control how others view and use that shared material. 

While social media may be a great place for people to discover new content and authors, it is a rented space. Therefore, if the algorithm associated with the rental platform changes overnight, the author may find themselves with much less visibility for their work. 

Similarly, yesterday’s posts are often lost after just a few days online. By contrast, Blogger provides each individual with a fixed location on the internet where they can store their thoughts and opinions over time. Blogs are particularly valuable for writers, niche commentators, hobbyist experts, lifestyle publishers and small-scale creators who desire something more enduring than simply having a profile page. 

Blogger still offers that without demanding a complicated technical setup first.



Influencer Success Stories On Blogger

We can demonstrate how Blogger works with influence by looking at real-world success stories. A good starting point would be Diana Rikasari. Her Blogspot site has been up for years now; her description of herself at Blogger lists her as an award-winning blogger, fashion entrepreneur, and published author. She is also a public speaker, and has been active in the blogosphere since 2007. 

An independent academic paper on personal branding examined how bloggers create their own identities using fashion blogging as a vehicle for that process; the authors use Diana Rikasari’s blog as one of their case studies, concluding that her blog was successful in communicating her unique identity. 

Together, those sources show Blogger functioning as a genuine platform for influence, not merely a stepping stone buried in internet folklore.

It is helpful to evaluate an even smaller, contemporary model. Not all creators are attempting to create or achieve celebrity status. They just want an online space to get their work out there. But even if your goal is not to make it as a big-time blogger you may still get noticed in a big way. 

Seadbeady’s Fashion and Beauty Blog, which runs on Blogspot, describes itself explicitly as both a platform for bloggers and influencers. This Blogspot-based blog covers fashion, beauty, product reviews, interviews with other creators, and more. 

In a 2025 post, Seadbeady stated they were able to grow their blogger site from a handful of views a month to over 10,000 views per month on average and at that stage were working in promotional capacity for several beauty boxes, including those by L’Oréal, Garnier and Maybelline. 

That is a realistic kind of success story: niche authority, steady visibility, and collaboration opportunities built from a Blogger site rather than a huge media operation.

Blogger does not have to dominate the creator economy to remain effective. It simply has to help the right people build recognition, consistency, and credibility in a space they control. 

For many of us, establishing ourselves as legitimate voices within our respective areas of interest is far more important than chasing whatever social media outlet happens to be screaming the loudest surrounding its marketing efforts.

Blogger Vs. Newer Blogging Platforms

Compared with newer publishing options, Blogger is a less ambitious choice. It was never intended to be built on top of high-end membership, paid community models or endless customised designs. 

It is fair to mention this because you can only truly appreciate Blogger if you take it directly for the need it’s intended to serve. A writer looking to build a subscription-based business model, a paid community model or a highly-tailored design system will likely find one of the newer platforms to better meet their needs. That is not a failure on Blogger’s part. It is simply a matter of fit.

Blogger still has advantages that outmatch newer platforms in terms of ease, simplicity and cost. It provides a way to get writers online quickly. Custom domains are supported by Blogger. The purpose of Blogger is not to try to surpass each and every other newer publishing platform. It provides a simpler alternative that many users find more practical.

Key Features Influencers Appreciate

The most important key features that have attracted some influencers and personal brand owners to the Blogger platform — its ability to be visually representative of an influencer’s professionalism and an understanding of how well a blog post will perform. 

The first, a “custom domain”, is possibly the largest feature that makes an influencer appear much more professional than those who use a free BlogSpot.com address.

Blogger’s ability to provide flexibility in terms of design is important too, even if it isn’t stated with flashy wording. The blogger “about” section provides information on easily usable templates, flexible layouts and a variety of background image options. 

This might seem unexciting compared to newer sites based on an abundance of creative visual tools, but a great deal of these influencers do not require an endless number of ways to visually manipulate their space. They want a simple, recognisable area that represents them and allows their content to shine through. In this respect, Blogger still delivers that.

Audience insight is another feature offered by Blogger. Users have the ability to evaluate performance of individual posts via analytics built into the blogging software, where your visitors come from, and what subjects your visitors are most interested in learning about. 

You can also connect directly to Google Analytics for additional details. Understanding your audience can prove valuable to creators who are trying to determine their niche, understand their audience behaviours, and develop pitches for potential collaborations. 




Building A Loyal Audience With Blogger

Audiences are created through consistent, useful content, as well as an individual’s sense of belonging. The long-term nature of Blogger allows for this type of loyalty to be developed. Not only does Blogger allow for the ability to save thousands of posts, photos, etc. with Google, but it also promotes the idea of developing a permanent website archive.

This type of archive will help convert casual browsers into regular readers. Casual browsers may arrive through searching a specific topic or linking from a social media platform. Someone who arrives through search or a social link is not limited to one passing update. They can view all your previous categorised blogs and get a better feel of your voice and expertise. 

Whether or not Blogger is still something to consider is based on what your goals are. If you want instant viral fame, then using Blogger would not provide an immediate solution. However, if you want to develop a loyal audience by creating a transparent, easily accessible, and owned repository of work, then I think it makes perfect sense.

 

How Blogger Supports Brand Collaborations

Brand collaboration efforts often happen even before an email exchange. A blogger’s site serves as evidence of their style, dependability, and transparency. If Blogger is used with intent, it will be able to support these aspects exceptionally well. 

A custom domain name, a professional-looking home page, organised categories of topics you write about, and an easy-to-navigate archives section. All of these items assist brands to understand who you are and how you express yourself. Blogger’s own structure supports exactly that sort of presentation.

There is also a strong operational reason to have your cooperative work live on a blog. Content posted on social media moves very quickly and is easily missed. 

Blog posts allow for fuller storytelling, more comprehensive background information, and active links, which will continue to provide value to your readers after the initial campaign has ended. That is beneficial in markets like beauty, fashion, travel, books, interior design and lifestyle where your audience may want something other than just a quick endorsement. 

A Blogger site gives those collaborations more room to breathe and more chances to keep delivering value long-term.




Tips For Maximising Blogger’s Potential

The creators who get the most from Blogger usually do not treat it as a relic or a backup plan. They use it as a central hub. The way to maximise your use of Blogger is through the selection of a clean template, registration of a custom domain, organising your home page clearly, and organising your content so readers know what your website is about. 

This level of creative freedom with both the look and feel of your website and insights into your audience allows you to create that type of organised space without making setup feel like a separate job.

Thinking editorially can also help. Most blogs benefit more from having a handful of strong cornerstone pieces versus flooding their site with low-quality, quick-hit articles. Archives are usually created intentionally. Categories have meaning. Titles are descriptive. 

Articles that were once valuable but have become outdated are often updated instead of deleted. When using social media, short-form content can provide links to richer content available on your blog. Blogger tends to work best when it is the place where ideas live in full, while faster platforms handle discovery and conversation. That combination still makes a lot of sense.

Blogger is still worth taking seriously in 2026. And yes, it is because it still does something specific really well. It still provides creators the fundamental building blocks of creating and maintaining their own space online.

This is why Blogger has secured its place. The ability it gives creators to clearly publish, steadily build up content and maintain ownership of their published work.

For writers, niche experts, hobbyists and influencers wanting to have a reliable and long-term base on the open web, that remains a viable option in 2026. 

This is an edited copy of a post from bloggertuesday

11 THINGS I UPVOTE

 When I’m upvoting stuff online, here are 11 things I’m always on the lookout for:

Colour

We may all be just be cogs in the machine, but at least we can be colourful cogs

“Cogs.23” by fROt – spraypaint on canvas with digital editing

 

Humour

Wherever we may be, funny as fuck is just around the corner

 

Controversy

Our history books are full of shit, so let’s start flinging some shit right back at the fuckers trying to spoon feed us lie upon lie (and that includes ALL politicians, every last one of of the worthless lying maggots)

 

Photography

There’s nothing quite like gawking at some photos – a gateway to other worlds

 

Conspiracy

But keep in mind “they” are playing both sides – basic tactics 101

 

Art

In the digital age we can all be artists – let's make some shapes

“Naked In A Field” by fROt – Crayon on paper with digital editing

 

Creativity

There is an entire world out there – get off your fucking phones and fill it with colour

 

Fun

If the end is nigh, and we are all fucked, and we are going to end our days beaten into submission – we can still have some fun before we shrivel up and die…

 

Pictures

Less words, more pictures – stop trying to bore each other’s pants off with endless tossfest word salads

 

Memes

One of the fastest way to transmit ideas in an age of information overload is with memes

 

Interesting Shit

You know – the opposite of boring shit…

 

OK, that’s enough to start with!

Posts don’t have to be boring, drab, colourless, humourless, communist approved shit…

 

There are many ways the powers that shouldn’t be can turn us into pathetic, muzzle wearing, broken arse gimps, living on our knees and begging to suck their cocks.

 

 

Seeking their approval and bending over for hand outs is one of the ways we allow them to control us…

FUCK THE MAN!

https://peakd.com/proofofbrain/@frot/10-things-im-up-voting-like-fuck-on-proof-of-brain

 This content was previously posted on FROT, June 9, 2021

SIFT ODYSEE UPDATES

To get things underway on my new SIFT ODYSEE CHANNEL I've uploaded the 10 original episodes of The Fall of the Cabal, and then 28 Sequel episodes from the Fall of the Cabal Sequel series. 
 

Those 38 episodes do a good job of covering most aspects of the globalist "New World Order" as well as adding some content to give some beef to my fledgling Odysee video channel. 

Although I've been watching videos on Odysee for years it wasn't until I set up a new channel and started posting content that I realised just how good Odysee is for sharing content. It's really easy to upload to, and the whole platform works brilliantly.

I did a short post about watching videos on Odysee back at the start of 2025 and for some reason that post has constantly been my number one blog post. I have no idea why that is, but hopefully it means someone else is looking at Odysee. 

The Fall of the Cabal by award-winning Dutch researcher Janet Ossebaard is a groundbreaking documentary series exposing the hidden global elite, deep state, secret societies, and the Cabal (the 1% shadow government controlling the world).

Originally released in 2019 (10 episodes), this eye-opening series covers Pizzagate, child trafficking networks, adrenochrome, satanic rituals, MK Ultra, central banking fraud, New World Order plans, Illuminati, George Soros, Clinton emails, Jeffrey Epstein connections, media manipulation, climate hoax, vaccine agendas, Big Pharma corruption, and the Great Awakening.

There is also a sequel series to Fall of the Cabal released in 2021 (28 episodes), revealing the matrix of control, QAnon drops, Trump vs. the swamp, the storm, mass arrests, GESARA/NESARA theories, Luciferianism roots, ancient bloodlines, and humanity's path to freedom as the Cabal crumbles.

Janet Ossebaard was found dead in December 2023, and her death was ruled to be suicide. 

SIFT ON ODYSEE

I've just set up a new channel on Odysee. It's such a cool platform I felt compelled to have one! I know that's a bit odd for a blogger who doesn't even make videos, and who has occasionally done blog posts about what a poor form of communication most videos are.

 

Having a video channel is not exactly an obvious choice, but it stems from the problem of posting links to videos in my blog posts only to have them disappear because of YouTube's constant censorship. 

First I tried posting some videos on Bitchute and that worked OK, but I didn't like the Bitchute platform much, so then I tried out Odysee which struck me as a really cool platform that I felt at home on straight away. 

Admittedly Odysee isn't very well established yet, and the number of views tends to be lower than on than Bitchute, but for what I'm doing I don't really care about views, and I'd rather support a platform I like.

 I haven't posted many videos on Odysee yet, and I'm planning to mainly post videos that are banned on YouTube or that I think are likely to disappear. I'll also post some random videos that I like and want to share with friends. 

It's very likely that none of the videos on my Odysee channel will be my own, I expect they will all be shameless copy and paste jobs, although there may be one or two exceptions.

If you are the original content creator of any of the videos I re-post and want your video removing from my channel just let me know in the comments.

 YouTube have even removed some music videos I've previously linked to, so I'll be uploading a few music videos as well, but will mainly be posting videos about some more controversial topics.

SIFT BITCHUTE CHANEL 

WHY DO THEY HATE ME?

WOW - this is quite impressive really - I was having some problems viewing Facebook in the Floorp browser that I usually use.

 

 

So I switched back to Waterfox, another good Firefox based browser. 

 

 And then I saw the full list of Facebook account unfriendings I've had this year - holy cow, do people hate me or what? There was about 75 of them - am I a social leper?  

 

Friends List Changes - deletions / blocks / deactivations:

 Brian S Jolenga
 Merry Black
 Addison Kendel
 Amanda Vollmer
 Bryan Dunlop
 Guy David Hatchard
 Sean Patrick
 Lani Gelera
 Daniel McCaul
 Jeanette Reed
 Matt Hew
 Neo Pacino
 Hayden Allen
 John Wren
 Patsy Alcock
 Lucy Archer
 Greg Osborne
 Julieanne Budgen
 Anton Paul Le Breton
 Barry Ducharme
 Simon Saint Paul
 Brian Martin
 Gayle Marian
 Shane Herekoretanga
 Дэмиен Демент
 Chris Owen Lee
 Kris Kringel
 Norbert Fly
 Megan Townsend
 Paul Cooper
 Sheree Slater
 Gerry Hibbs
 Halo NZ
 Andy Pine
 Martin Hockridge
 Shaun Walton
 Sally Muir
 Tracey Nicholson
 David Blackdene
 Shane Bode
 Aunti Lockdown
 Askar Shakenov
 Sidney Vish
 Billy Nelson
 Linda Diane Kane Norris
 Matt Dobson
 Adam Profenno
 Alf Mccartney
 Makayla Meem
 Kymberlie Brook
 Chris White
 Vaxeens Poysond Mi
 Augustine Huxley
 Steve Lamb
 Cazz SfBlack
 Fleur Doree
 Ryan Jacobson
 Jay Little
 Shaun Williams
 Steven Craig
 Mike Tesoro
 Ayşe Heer
 Howard Constantine
 Louise Phuong
 Ross Douglas
 Jerry Smith
 Gary Hunt
 Dorian Grey
 Dawn Green
 Jlily Mitchell
 Melissa Threvo
 Kristin Niesen
 Mandy Muir
 Christian Jirkowsky
 Rabekah Fenwick
 Sheree Baybe
 Emily Cook
 Joanna Whitney
 Matt King
 Jessica Delange
 Kerry JA
 Sara Cross
 Joel Rafidi
 Genesis Heath
 Siouxie Mac Threinfir
 Ian Carline
 Mark Benton

 

  

But it's really not as bad as it sounds, my Facebook friend count actually keeps going steadily up anyway.

 

  The funny thing is that offending normies attracts more anti-normies so my accounts grow despite all the unfriendings. Those unfriendings are all on my #2 "Tom Anderson" account (Neo in the Matrix) rather than my #1 "Greg Anderson" account. 

 

  

In theory Tom is more controversial, but Greg actually seems to get about the same number of unfriendings with not as many friend requests, so Tom has been growing slightly faster this year - the combined friend total is pushing 3k now but I only actually know about 30 of them!