Today marks the one year anniversary of In Mala Fide. That’s right, on July 15th, 2009 (the test post doesn’t count), I climbed the diving board ladder and cannonballed into the blogosphere, forever changing history in the process. You’re welcome.
It’s become de rigeur for the admins of blogs like The Spearhead and Alternative Right to humbly express disbelief at the rate at which their popularity has grown. Well, I’m not like those guys. Not only did I fully expect to become this popular this quickly, I’m pissed that I haven’t conquered the entire blogosphere yet. I blame you, my readers, for continuing to visit other blogs. Why are you still bothering with tossers like Roissy, Steve Sailer, Half Sigma and Robert Stacy McCain? I’m way cooler than all of those guys put together!
Just kidding, of course. But this blog is pretty damn popular. This is the number of hits that inmalafide.com has gotten as of this writing (Wednesday, 9:30 pm New York Time), according to WordPress’ internal stats:
And here’s my stats according to Google Analytics:
And for shits and giggles, here’s the top ten countries that the patrons of this fine website hail from (click to enlarge):
And the top U.S. states:
In Mala Fide also has over 10,000 monthly visitors according to Quantcast and is ranked at 635,384 by Alexa. Not bad for a guy who started off with no name, no reputation, and no exposure. (Note that these are only statistics from this domain, not including the now-defunct WordPress.com site I blogged at from July to November of last year. I foolishly forgot to save the stats from that site before I nuked it. Oh well.)
But while marketing is great, content is still king. Since starting up this thing, I’ve written over 400 posts, ranging in quality from ones I would make sweet, passionate love to to others I would put down like the sick mangy dogs they are. After whittling down a long list of my favorites, I’ve assembled the twenty best posts on this blog in the past year for your reading pleasure. Click on the links, my friends, and arm yourselves with knowledge:
“China’s hypergamous hell” – I expound on why having too many men is bad for long-term social stability. This post is particularly noteworthy because Elusive Wapiti linked to it the following week, giving me my first big break.
“George Sodini and the contract between the sexes” – The post that put me on the map, getting me noticed by the denizens of the Chateau and denounced by a leading male feminist. All hail the power of the pingback!
“The Roissysphere and its moral and intellectual objectives: a proposed manifesto” – If the Sodini piece put me on the map, this one solidified my place among the ranks of the alternative right. If I could do it over, I probably wouldn’t have called it a “manifesto,” but whatever. When Dennis Mangan picked it up a day later, it ignited a week-long war in which pro- and anti-game bloggers and commenters, represented by Dennis and Lawrence Auster respectively, duked it out all over the blogosphere. It ended with lots of hurt feelings, no changed minds, and a WHOLE lot of publicity for my fledgling blog.
“Lawrence Auster: a social conservative who just doesn’t get it” – I catch the self-appointed pope of conservatism with his pants down. Poured gasoline on the already-raging Game War.
“Don’t trust any woman over 30” – I’ve fisked a lot of stupid articles in my time, but this is my personal favorite.
“When rebellion is the only option” – How the blog got its name. And no, it wasn’t just because it sounded cool.
“Misanthropy and game” – Not all haters of the human race are created equal.
“Eternal solipsism of the female mind” – Quite possibly the most influential thing I’ve written up to this point. If you read only one post on this list, read this one.
“The fundamentals of game” – It’s not about routines, negs, or dressing like an idiot.
“The world is doomed – now get over it and enjoy your life” – Or, why R.E.M. had it right.
“Women don’t get to define female beauty” – Men do.
“Chastising the slaves for fleeing the plantation” – What people like Jim Kunstler don’t get about white flight.
“One splotch of yellow makes the whole world disgusted” – In which I ask why American men keep forgetting to put the seat up before they go number one.
“Marriage is dying – how will women respond?” – Why womens’ likely reactions to the collapse of a fundamental institution of Western civilization will ultimately backfire and kill us all.
“Larry Auster weighs in on Weekly Standard article on sex, relationships, and game“- A quickie parody I whipped up on my drive home from work, it won me a new following and was widely praised across the right-o-sphere.
“Obamacare, noblesse oblige, and the sundering of the social contract” – The apocalypse beckons.
“Truth snacks” – In bite-sized form for quick devouring!
“The folly of anti-anti-Semitism” – How they’re making the problem they purport to combat worse.
“Why nobody likes nerds, and why you’re justified in hating them” – Speaking truth to nerd power, this remains the most commented-on post of mine to date.
“What’s wrong with white nationalism?” – Many things, actually.
What will the next year hold for your faux-egotistical blogmeister? I can’t really say. When I first began blogging, I anticipated that I would be writing on a number of specific topics, not realizing that I lack the discipline and focus to stay on one beat day in, day out. That’s why I’ve been shifting from being “a sane version of Roissy,” as one of my commenters put it, to an everything and the kitchen sink sort of blogger as my moods and interests dictate. This blog isn’t a static, unmoving construct, but a living, breathing entity that changes and evolves with me. What I can say is that I’m not quitting anytime soon – not so long as I have things to say, readers to enjoy them, and haters to amuse me.
I’d like to thank the numerous bloggers, writers, commenters, lurkers and freaks of nature who have aided me in my journey to blogospheric dominance. In no particular order: Alpha Dominance, MarkyMark, Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Tech, Professor Hale, Ben Leonard, Bhanu Prasad, Chuck Ross (I know you’re still out there, man), Φ, Whiskey, The Fifth Horseman, Obsidian, Female Misogynist, Dennis Mangan, Dave from Hawaii, J the Israeli Water Engineer, Hermes, Coldequation, Sofia, Novaseeker, Alkibiades, Talleyrand, Welmer, Assanova, Kamal S., Lupo, Thursday, Johnny Five, 691, Trumwill, Rake, Rob Fedders, Sebastian Flyte, Mike T, Aoefe, Monad, Ilkka Kokkarinen, njartist49, Angry Harry, Kathy Farrelly, Default User, Bhetti, Al Fin, Kalim Kassam, Alex Birch, Frank Azzurro, Chip Smith, Roosh, Donald Pittenger, Robert Stacy McCain, LovelySexyBeauty, LILGRL, TAllagash, Susan Walsh, Double-Minded Man, Tuplis, Genius, Gunslingergregi, David Alexander, Gx1080, Eumaios, Hestia, HughRistik, Jack Donovan, Max, Aaron, Bob Belvedere, Mark Bachman, luvsic, Sparks123, Omega Man, Dan, Silas Reinagel, Chic Noir, Krauser, Ulysses, An Unmarried Man, The Blanque, Michael Kenny, Advocatus Diaboli, J. DeVoy, Eivind Berge, Kevin Slaughter, menareangrynow, Snark, AHA, Athol Kay, Spike Gomes, DC Handgun Info, Foseti, J. Durden, Richard Spencer, Mike Gibson, Eman, StrikeforceMorituri, Brett Stevens, SDaedalus, David Foster, TDOM, Reginald, Ancel De Lambert, grerp, Levi Johnston, JM Kaye, Jake Turner, Keith Preston, Lumpa, Humphrey van Weyden, Kat Wilder, Unfrozen Caveman, Desi Aadmi, Matt Savage, Amateur Strategist, Paul Elam, Jay Hammers, Schopenbecq, Pierce Harlan, E. Steven Berkimer, Poetry of Flesh, Vincent Ignatius, Xamuel, Hunter Wallace, Matt Parrott, Pat Hannagan, Amanda, Vijay Prozak, TAS, Asian of Reason, Finndistan, Dynishka, Jamila, Chris Gale, Robert Lindsay, Great Books for Men, Richard Ford, White and Nerdy, Vasafaxa, Laura Grace Robins, Doug Vance, TrollKing, Game in BK, Willy Wonka, Y, Racer X, Thanatos, and anyone else I may have forgotten. A very special thanks to OneSTDV, Ray Sawhill, slumlord, and Elusive Wapiti, who backed me from the very beginning. Holy crap, that’s a lot of people to thank.
Here’s to another year of fisking, flameage, and fun!
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Congratulations!
Onya Ferd.. You champion, you. ;)
You could have waited till WP gave you 666,666 views (instead of the 666,073 you used in this post).
[I didn't realize that at the time...ah well. - ed.]
Keep up the good work.
I believe I was the very first comment.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed your blog for the past year and my initial impression was surely dead-on that it would be a worthwhile addition to my daily visits.
Please keep it up.
if i pay you a dollar, will you move my name to the top of the list? :)
[Five dollars minimum. I'm not that cheap. - ed.]
Your writing speaks to truth, and at times, it does this in a most clever way that most could not duplicate- even if they tried.
This is one of the few blogs that can expand ones horizons in unexpected ways.
Congratulations, my man.
hat tip, best of wishes :)
Congrats. And thanks for setting the bar so damn high for us new bloggers. Jerk.
Keep it saying it as it is, Ferdinand.
And to think that you were a fan of Larry Auster.
War changes us all.
Congrats! The site is in my must-read list, and doesn’t disappoint!
Has it really been a year already? Congrats and I would be remiss if I didn’t return the gratitude and thanks for all the traffic you’ve sent our way.
Keep up the good work and never delete your site like Alte did! Congrats!
All of you, anonymous bloggers, you are like the unknown soldiers of this war.
Who would have though that men saying great thoughts would one day run anonymous?
In this war against the system, I meant.
Congratulations on one year of blogging success. That’s like ten in blogging years. Keep doing what you’re doing and keep promoting the small-timers.
I noticed that I am in the big block of names.
Cool
I just starting visiting this blog on a regular basis. Keep up the good work! Well written, informative, and entertaining.
Congratulations my friend. And thank you for giving me the biggest rush to my site I’ve ever had.
Way to go! May In Mala Fide someday topple Google and Yahoo!
Wonder what the heck is up with that one blast of high “bounce rate” near the beginning.
Obama is a collosal failure, but you, you’ve proven “yes we can!”
Happy anniversary, Ferdinand. I am in awe of your bounce rate. And, as Alkibiades said, thanks for all the traffic.
Happy Birthday. http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh43/socialreseller/p1/comments/birthday/0225.jpg
yea, how the hell do you have a 9% bounce rate? is that even possible?
it’s almost like having a 12 inch dong.
Congrats on very successful year. Looking forward to more.
Looking back on everything I’ve ever written I can only conclude that my best moments were in the hating. I’d embed Rage Against The Machine’s”Freedom” here but I know that in this discontent of my winter it’s not me but the lack of sun that gets me down, clutching at the intermittent ducted gas warming wishing for a fire.
I’ve tried several attempts at posting a riposte to your gaming posts, threatened by what it means for my daughters, as I once violently abused Roissy at Mangans. Not that I would ever abandon them to the decay of Western life but that I look at my boy also and hope that men like you will inspire him to be a man also.
I’m not praising you Ferdinand but thanking you, not for the links but that in my conflict of right living with The Church, I also know that men of my Faith used to have cocks which they were well aware of, and so were the women.
If looking back at it all you ever remark like St. Thomas Aquinas that “…all that I have written seems like straw to me.” just remember that he wrote the Summa Theologica and you published a blog. But in its impact if yours brings people back to the path of enjoyable sex, blessed by Christ, then even the corrupted thoughts of your post-modernist American head will have a greater impact than the wisest heads of Europe.
Good on ya Ferdinand. May your women always succumb, with carpet burned knees a reminder of your game and your bliss, and the position they would be suicidally determined to remiss.
To clarify, I’m with ya mate, and fervently hope your current success is manifold a hundred times more.
Perhaps in a hundred years hence people will look back at blogs like we look back at the Reformation, seeing a necessary burst of energy to rouse the weak from their slumber to slay the slugs feeding on their arteries.
I think you’re in the right. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a White child in the world today. Urged to act like sluts if you’re a girl and to be weak and submissive if you’re a boy.
I could go on but I want to say, you’re an antidote to all that, and a reassurance that there still beats a testicled heart in our lands.
And you’re a good writer, godammit.
Don’t forget your epic post about Richard Hoste. It was very prophetic. He didn’t seem that bad back then, but now this latest post about Lindsay Lohan – wow, just wow.
Might have been a bit under the weather when I commented so one more clarification. Where I say “…the corrupted thoughts of your post-modernist American head…” I don’t mean you alone, I mean all of us. We are all corrupted in some way by the corrupt political and journalistic monoliths dominating us. I’m an example of that, being a foul mouthed Catholic and all.
Game appears to me to be a corruption of the traditional relationship between men and women, but Game didn’t cause the corruption but is rather, from what I observe, a reaction to it. Game is re-asserting males as being *Men*, so in that regard I’m fascinated by it and see the need for it.
Though being a parent it is a matter of consternation that things should have come to this. And I don’t see how Game can re-establish the basis of Western practices that made our ancestors so dominant. In that way Game is a manifestation of Western decline rather than a response to it.
Game can get you laid but it won’t get you married nor to stay married. But there could be more to it than my own superficial reading of it, so I remain undecided on the subject.
Anyway, I admire your provocative subjects, certainly your wit and writing talent, and contrary to what I said, I am in fact praising you!
Well done mate, I hope there’s many more years yet in your blog and that your readership remains on its current trajectory. I dips me lid to ya.
And I don’t think a “testicled heart” makes for a good, or workable, metaphor. Sounds more like a horrible affliction ninemsn would seek out in a British hospital for a front page news story. “Man grows testicles on heart, surgeons perplexed. Unsure whether to castrate or circumcise.”
Truly an awesome run.
Here’s to another equally memorable year.
Just read your “The Roissysphere and its moral and intellectual objectives: a proposed manifesto.” Very impressive. I think I’m starting to understand your ideas and hopes for our civilisation and that game is a method to bring back the rightfully exalted position of “Betas”.
Onwards and upwards!
Apologies tendered for being late to this, but CONGRATS!
Ferds,
The Misandry Bubble has about 6 links to In Mala Fide.
BUT, when I first wrote the article, some of those links were to the old fbardamu.wordpress.com site, which later went defunct. I corrected this when I discovered it, but in the interim, it might have cost InMalaFide a few thousand visitors…
But I think a few thousand still came your way on either end of that period. I think the 3 most important articles you have written are Contract Between the Sexes, Eternal Solipism, and Democrats and Republicans unite to form the Misandry Party. Keep improving on those (by doing a version 2.0 when appropriate), as there is really no other place where those subjects have been addressed.
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