I feel like I’m the Kilgore Trout of caption makers.
Kilgore Trout was a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut. The fictional Kilgore Trout was a prolific writer who wrote shitty Science Fiction books. He churned out a shit ton of them but was never successful.
This is how I feel with my captions. I churn out a shit ton of them, and have very minimal success. I’m sure there are a lot of reasons why I’m not successful at caption making, from my work not being very good, to my website running like trash, to my lack of advertising, or my inability to stick to one sexual kink, and so on and so forth. Whatever the reason, the truth is I have not captured the zeitgeist or the interest of the public as other, more successful caption makers have.
I have often thought about throwing in the towel or waving the proverbial white flag. Caption making takes up a lot of time for me. This is because I try to make a minimum of four captions a day in what I call the “Daily Karnal Captions.”
The Daily Karnal Captions can take anywhere from 8 to 16 hours to complete on average. It’s for this reason you see the Daily Karnal Captions published so late, often times after midnight of the day that it was slotted for. Right now, I’ve been working on the Daily Karnal Captions 7-11-2025, and I’ve been working on it for 5 hours, and I’m nowhere near to being finished., At the rate I’m going, it probably won’t be done for another 8 hours.
I think it will be best to just admit that the DKC 7-11-2025 should become the DKC 7-12-2025.
With all this effort, I earn something like $110 a month.. That comes out to around $3.67 a day. And this is always getting lower and lower, because I can’t keep patrons.
$3.67 a day is a lot of money for me, because my bank account is always in the negative. It allows me to eat every couple of days and pays, just barely, for the site to stay on and my Canva subscription (the program I use to make the captions).
As I have said, I’ve thought about giving all of this up, because I feel like I’m getting nowhere with it and don’t foresee that ever changing.
But fear not, my very few fans, I’m not going to give up. Not out of any hopes of striking success, for that hope died a long time ago. I’m going to keep going because I’m insane. I’m going to keep going because I like making captions every day, and I’m going to keep going because $3.67 (though, I won’t be surprised if it’s $2.50 by tomorrow) is a lot of money for me.
I just wrote this screed because I wanted to put it out there, that I’m kind of… exasperated? I don’t know if that is the right word. Depressed? I don’t think that’s the right word either. I think, maybe, “defeated” fits the bill. And supposedly, it’s good to voice your inner struggles, and I have no one else to complain to, so I’m dumping it all on whoever stumbles upon this post and bothers to read this wall of words.
I’m going to get back to working on some captions, but doubt I will finish anytime soon. Consider the DKC 7-11-2025, D-E-A-D. Sorry.
I’ll try to get back on the horse for the DKC 7-12-2025.
In the meantime, here’s some free hots:
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