You know, I've been living in Czech Republic for quite a long time. But I wanted to move here from way back when the internet was just brought to Kaluga. And it's highly likely I could have ended up here earlier if every cunning Russian businessman stopped driving blizzards on the internet.
Today I'll tell you about a couple of types of websites about Czech Republic that disgust me as a blogger.
I'll start perhaps with why and for whom I write my blog at all. In the first days after leaving I thought this is one of the only ways to preserve knowledge of Russian. In my case it wasn't needed - my brain perfectly holds several languages in my head and works quite well without practice.
Then I wrote just a couple of articles a month, or even less - mainly, the goals were more mercantile. I wanted to learn how to make websites (and this blog was generally the first website in my life), I wanted to learn to write so that people would come. At that time I learned SEO quite well, even went to work at AVG in this sphere. By that time I already understood that nothing is impossible and you can learn everything from scratch if there's desire.
My site brought me a lot in terms of knowledge, and even now I work in support using what I learned during this time.
Quite recently I thought - do I even need all this? What does this blog bring me? And suddenly it dawned on me - it turns out, people are interested in reading me.
People come to my blog by the most interesting queries - most often people are interested in is it easy to learn Czech or how a student can find a job in Czech Republic. And here's the most interesting thing. It seems to me that I write everything in detail and clearly, I spend a lot of time writing articles.
But there's a whole bunch of websites about Czech Republic and not only, where authors generally shit on their readers from a high bell tower. You know who pisses me off the most?
Wikipedia-like sites.
Some cunning asshole copied a million pages from God knows where, stole a hundred of someone's photos and passes it off as his work. Then stuffs tons of ads into every free corner and sits enjoying life. Want an example? Enter any Czech city you're interested in, suddenly you want to read something interesting. Open Wikipedia, read about the horse statue on the main square. Then look at the first page of search results. There are 10 more pages with exactly the same content. Compare, for example, with how I write about travel.
Newly arrived consultants.
This is also, of course, a mess. A person arrives in Czech Republic, and usually not in the correct and only way, but hell knows how. 3 days pass, and here he's ready to provide you with relocation services to Czech Republic. He'll open you an entrepreneur visa (which you can't get), and sign you up for Czech courses (where you'll be taught in 50 hours better than me in 5 years), and arrange a tour of Prague (will sell you a tram ticket for 50 euros instead of 20 crowns).
Videographers
YouTube is generally an unplowed field. Sometimes I'm interested, since it's such a convenient and popular format, probably lots of good content? Hell no. All you can find there is, again, some cunning reasoning about how Czech girls are ugly and advice on how to fictitiously marry a Czech so the embassy won't expose you in the interview.
And what's interesting, this is generally the whole Russian-emigrant YouTube - try searching for videos like "how to emigrate to", there's just tons of nonsense.
Mammoth shit
This is generally fierce mess. Usually a person arrived in the nineties-two thousands and still sells everyone some semi-legal or simply idiotic emigration methods. Such sites are easy to distinguish because the authors see Czech Republic simply as Russia with a Latin alphabet. Usually these are extremely unintegrated people who love to solve all issues "like at home". And most importantly - they extremely love to fight on social media about this topic, because they have much more free time than you and me.