So, I have been testing different style of posts on the X platform.

My conclusion is using X trains you to be an ass of a person.

I started a sports account on there called the Irish Heretic for Notre Dame Football. What I noticed from the start of this very small and very new account is how much traction it gained so quickly. I started asking Grok about it.

Why does this sports account with less than 500 subscribers generate so many impressions compared to my personal larger accounts?

The past 2 weeks, with the Missio Dei account & the Irish Heretic, helping to boost my account I learned two things when asking the AI about the algorithm—the content on X has to be engaged early by your followers and it has to be tribal (sports does this in a more positive manner). Between the three accounts, I’d post, liked, and reposted content from all of the accounts to try to boost it into the algorithm to get it pushed to non-followers.

I noticed when I engaged in the tribal character of the sports account a generally positive experience, but on the religious perspective, I had to dip my toes in hyperbole & negativity to get any sort of traction. (What’s that say about that as a subject as a whole?)

The X accounts, say Catholic Inc, has already triggered the algorithm to push their content to new potential followers by sharing & reposting within their own cliche. If you’re a new Catholic content creator trying to use X as a platform you have to engage & break into this bubble. The easiest way to ascent is tribal negativity.

Again, asking Grok, I asked why my thoughtful content didn’t get any traction? It explained to me that it simply didn’t tap into that animalistic tribalism that my sports account positively matches.

I conducted several test posts. Some were very tribal—they received a greater push & the more intellectual endeavors fell flat.

Now I am contemplating whether I want to use X at all.

I am not saying this is new information—but the sports account really woke me up to it enough that I personally put it to the test.