I wrote this in the buff

The only expectation from 30-Second Read World Headquarters for writers has been to make their essays interesting in exactly 180 words.

We’ve been flexible about all else. Offer a deep thought. Rail against stupidity. Rave about good stuff. Share an anecdote. Reveal something personal. Be funny, heartwarming or silly. But make it interesting.

Now 30-Second Read must change. And you, our readers, have led us to this moment.

Here’s how. You’ve made the essay “Taking it all off for ‘news’” the most popular of 2024. It’s drawn more readers than anything else 30-Second Read has published this year – by a lot.

That squibble, published in May, detailed how the website Naked News has for 25 years featured naked anchors reading the news. It’s stupid, of course.

But y’all have voted with your clicks. And, whatever its faults, 30-Second Read listens. Like Google and Meta, it must pimp for your time.

Alas, we don’t have naked news readers.

We do have writers. Good writers. Clothed writers.

Ah, but your imagination is mighty powerful. Free it now to see …

Naked writers.