The Power of Fans and Followers

There’s always one thing that always surprises me when it comes to this world, and that’s the power and influence of fans. I always have soft heart when I see a celebrity perform on stage and I see a shot of all the fans cheering or singing along. I guess it shows that sense of togetherness and everyone is united as one. All the fans are brought together as one to do one thing, and that’s to cheer on their idol(s) and see them.

The concept stays the same on the web. Recently I’ve been seeing tweets on Soshified this and Soshified that, and I was wondering what was up. Through a little browsing and searching, it turns out Soshified was remodeling their forum skin powered by Invisionboard. It was expected to launch on May 9th, and so I can definitely understand how they feel when you’re waiting for something to come up, especially a forum or community where you spend a lot of time socializing, learning, and talking about your favorite topic.

One of Soshified’s goals was to become a trending topic on twitter. Now, knowing me, I didn’t really know what a trending topic on twitter was. I assumed it was randomly generated depending on what’s been talking at the moment, but in the end I was close in that it was just the most talked about topic on twitter. In other words, spamming the word or hashtag (well, I’m sure twitter has some logic behind it). It was pretty crazy, because when I was searching for the “Soshified” term, twitter would notify me that there were 40+ more tweets since I’ve searched, and I’m like….I’ve just loaded this search page ><.

Now that's what I call dedication from fans and loyal subscribers. They eventually reached Trending Topic (TT) status and even beat out a topic such as Iron Man 2 which surprised me the most because considering Iron Man 2 is a bit more global than what Soshified is since it was a movie that started showing since Friday.

In the end, Soshified released their new layout, which is actually stunning to me that it was a forum skin. Check out my article on skinning vs designing in the near future. In the meantime, as always, keep dedicated to something/someone and you’ll reach your goals. As with Soshified, they had their loyal group of fans, they all united together because of their love for a famous girl group named SNSD, and because of that, they’ve grown into a massive community where they can enjoy and share their thoughts on what they like.