JabrWoky - Following the white rabbit since...

Overheard...

in the office today...

"Flickr is static YouTube."

10,000+ views

I've been posting on to Flickr since the day after Christmas 2005. So this Christmas I crossed my first anniversary on Flickr and around the same time my Flickr photo views crossed the 10,000 mark. Meaning my photos were viewed about 10,000 times excluding me. As of today it's about 11,250 views. Not bad I guess. I got a fair bit of comments and quite a good number of my photos got favorited by other Flickr enthusiasts. I haven't made it to Flickr's interesting bunch yet. Maybe my pictures are just not good enough. Hopefully soon.

But the interesting bit that popped up when I looked at the page of my most viewed photos is that 'sex' still tops. Or even elements that suggest or can be associated with sex or which has a sexual undertone. Here's my top 5 pictures:

This one titled 'Softcore Chinese Porn' was the ultimate topper with a record 255 views. I'm guessing the fact that I put 'soft porn' as a tag must have delivered it to people who must have searched for the same.

This one is the close-up shot of a sticker meme by the graphic artist Tish which I shot in some random street in Philadelphia. I guess it's the term 'Foxy' that must have delivered so many hits on it and made it the second most views photo with 247 views.

#3 surprised me. Lot of people were searching for Matrioshka doll images apparently. This one got viewed 130 times.

This cool girl skateboards sticker came in fourth with 103 views. I didn't tag it with any provocative or suggestive words, but still it got quite a few hits. Don't know naming it 'Cool Girl' had anything to do with it.

This picture of the local Best Western Hotel in Intercourse, Pennsylvania takes the fifth spot with 92 views. There could be high chance that tagging it with 'intercourse' made it a hit.

Anyways it was just interesting to find out which of your 3000+ odd pictures got the top views. Will have to wait and see if the top ones are going to be dethroned this year. Would be great if Flickr put together a list of the Top 100 photos based on parameters like most views, most commented, most favorited etc. I'm curious to know who are the winners in the Flickr world.

fun with dumpr

Now you can have a little bit of fun with your Flickr photos. Yes you can get it displayed in a museum, thanks to Dumpr. Enjoy!!