Well gang, 2024 was a ball buster for VZ1, but I think we've landed on our feet the last day of the year. Over the next few days I will be restoring things to essentially to where they were right before Google curb stomped this site.
As many of you know, I tried to turn lemons into lemonade by revisiting the movies and re-posting with an artful (using air quotes when I use that word) AI filter. Thing is, lemonade is really just watered down lemons; the site was diluted and (to keep this fruitful metaphor going) lost its zest.
So, we're back to the old look, and I still have another 1000+ movies to restore (no exaggeration), so we're not there yet, but it'll be complete within the week for sure. This "old" theme isn't as mobile-friendly, but I think it's better to navigate for our purposes and allows me to put things into he sidebar better. So we'll keep the old theme/look for a bit.
I'm sure you're asking - this is great and all, but isn't VZ1 just going to get shut down again? Maybe. But if it does, I'm going to go over to Wordpress - and hopefully will be able to get you all the link to the new site when/if that does happen. I hate to have to start spending money (Blogger is free), but it'll just have to happen. Adding shitty AI filters piecemeal and still getting Blogger restriction notices is for the birds.
[You might also be asking how the hell are all these posts suddenly available again. Well, I got a Gmail while I was in Barnes & Noble today that "your post titled [x] has been reinstated. We have re-evaluated the post titled [x] against Community Guidelines... upon review the post has been reinstated. You may access your post at..." yada yada. Got this for basically the whole blog. So, here we are. I should mention that I have to go and individually republish these posts from draft and this is taking forever. I've sorted by label-year and am plowing my way through.]
Lastly, there will be a bit of a change around here in terms of content. (At least for a while.) I've become interested in some of the newer softcore releases - especially those which have come out of Mexico and other non-US countries. When I say "newer" they're still 10+ years old, but still new compared to the bulk of VZ1's catalog. I realize these won't interest most of you... but hey, you'll have the entire Library of Alexandria to explore while one row of shelves (2000-2014 Mexican sexploitation section, for example) gets stocked.
While it undoubtedly sucks that we've lost thousands of VZ1 readers this year - thanks to Google's smack-down and my subsequent AI filter experiment - the fact remains, we're still here. Thank you to the VZ1 readers have weathered this roller coaster of a year.
Well, my real job resumes after this holiday break, and I'll be back to traveling each week and watching sleazy movies and updating VZ1 in hotels around the country. Right now I'm going to go join the family upstairs for some drinking and games to celebrate the New Year, and will be back in the saddle soon. Cheers!
