← Back to post

Revision history

  1. Simon7b403ef

    feat(web): flatten frontmatter — drop slug, flat tags/cats, auto-bump updatedDate [skip ci]

    diff --git a/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md b/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    index a752766..7a8db39 100644
    --- a/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    +++ b/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    @@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
     ---
     title: "Drama sells like nothing else"
    -slug: drama-sells-like-nothing-else
     pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:46.000Z
     updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:46.000Z
     draft: false
     excerpt: "Most promoters treat drama like a disease. Something to suppress, manage, contain. I treated it like gasoline. SLIST was born from a revenge plot. I got banned from a 30-person … Read more"
     categories:
    -  - { name: BTS, slug: bts }
    +  - BTS
     tags:
    -  - { name: format-short-take, slug: format-short-take }
    -  - { name: instagram, slug: instagram }
    -  - { name: marketing, slug: marketing }
    -  - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational }
    +  - format-short-take
    +  - instagram
    +  - marketing
    +  - tone-confrontational
     featured:
       src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/cover.png
       alt: "Dark underground nightclub atmosphere with red neon light cutting through smoke"
    
  2. Simon8bc867c

    content: rewrite image URLs from slist.net/wp-content to cdn.slist.net/posts/<slug>/

    diff --git a/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md b/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    index 2cdbbb7..a752766 100644
    --- a/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    +++ b/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags:
       - { name: marketing, slug: marketing }
       - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational }
     featured:
    -  src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d2a44f184391.11204789.png
    +  src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/cover.png
       alt: "Dark underground nightclub atmosphere with red neon light cutting through smoke"
     legacy_wp_id: 16029
     ---
    
  3. Simon3c1387f

    fix(web): point upload URLs at slist.net (cdn.slist.net not wired up yet)

    diff --git a/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md b/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    index 0b27d71..2cdbbb7 100644
    --- a/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    +++ b/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags:
       - { name: marketing, slug: marketing }
       - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational }
     featured:
    -  src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2a44f184391.11204789.png
    +  src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d2a44f184391.11204789.png
       alt: "Dark underground nightclub atmosphere with red neon light cutting through smoke"
     legacy_wp_id: 16029
     ---
    
  4. Simon5add954

    feat(web): visually mirror slist.net blog (index + single post)

    diff --git a/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md b/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    index 55051fb..0b27d71 100644
    --- a/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    +++ b/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    @@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ slug: drama-sells-like-nothing-else
     pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:46.000Z
     updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:46.000Z
     draft: false
    +excerpt: "Most promoters treat drama like a disease. Something to suppress, manage, contain. I treated it like gasoline. SLIST was born from a revenge plot. I got banned from a 30-person … Read more"
    +categories:
    +  - { name: BTS, slug: bts }
    +tags:
    +  - { name: format-short-take, slug: format-short-take }
    +  - { name: instagram, slug: instagram }
    +  - { name: marketing, slug: marketing }
    +  - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational }
    +featured:
    +  src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2a44f184391.11204789.png
    +  alt: "Dark underground nightclub atmosphere with red neon light cutting through smoke"
     legacy_wp_id: 16029
     ---
     Most promoters treat drama like a disease. Something to suppress, manage, contain. I treated it like gasoline.
    
  5. Simon30e0ee3

    feat(web): full posts+pages sync, browseable UI, curated pages allowlist

    diff --git a/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md b/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    new file mode 100644
    index 0000000..55051fb
    --- /dev/null
    +++ b/content/posts/2026/drama-sells-like-nothing-else/index.md
    @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
    +---
    +title: "Drama sells like nothing else"
    +slug: drama-sells-like-nothing-else
    +pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:46.000Z
    +updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:04:46.000Z
    +draft: false
    +legacy_wp_id: 16029
    +---
    +Most promoters treat drama like a disease. Something to suppress, manage, contain. I treated it like gasoline.
    +
    +SLIST was born from a revenge plot. I got banned from a 30-person group chat in Mexico City in January 2023. My response was to build a bigger chat, fill it with every cortesia and discount code in the scene, and systematically expose the people who kicked me out once I had the platform to do it. I ruined a few careers. Got my revenge tenfold. And in the process, built the largest underground rave community in CDMX.
    +
    +The lesson was unmistakable: controversy is not a bug. It is the single most efficient audience acquisition channel available to an underground brand with zero budget.
    +
    +## The framework
    +
    +Here is how it actually works, stripped of the moral panic:
    +
    +Step one: take a position that nobody in the scene will say out loud. Step two: the casual followers leave (this is a feature, not a bug — it concentrates the base). Step three: the people who resonate with honesty over performance lean in harder. Step four: your enemies still need your platform because you own the distribution. Step five: the controversy makes your name known to people who would never have heard of you otherwise.
    +
    +I watched this cycle repeat for three years. The drama is seasonal — roughly six-month cycles of chaos and peace. I pattern-recognized it early and stopped treating it as crisis management. It became a scheduling consideration.
    +
    +## The shitpost engine
    +

    Diff truncated (54 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →

Sign in to SLIST

Pick how you want to enter.