Joni Con
JONI'S FLICKR REPORT CARD FOR 2025.
Like everyone else on Flickr, Joni was issued a Flickr Report Card in mid-December with a statistical analysis of her activities on Flickr for the year 2025. Like kids with a bad report card which they don't want their parents to see, Joni has seemingly destroyed hers. She deleted it! . . ."By accident, Mom! I'm not lying! Maybe the dog ate it!" . . . Well, Joni doesn't have a dog, but she's not lying. She really did delete it, but it really was an accident. . . . Honestly!
Here's what happened . . . Joni downloaded the report card onto her computer and added it to her queued up photos for posting on her photostream, awaiting only a narrative by Joni of her own statistical analysis of the report card, relative to last year's report card, which by the way can be accessed at the bottom of this same first page, which in itself offers a telling clue about Joni's Flickr activity for 2025. Bogged down by Christmas shopping, wrapping, and decorating, as well as shingling a doll house roof, Joni was delayed in preparing the narrative for her Flickr Report Card and as Christmas arrived, Joni deleted the Report Card from her Flickr queue for what she intended to be a temporary period to make room for three Christmas-themed photos. However, when Joni tried to add it back to her photostream's queue, she couldn't find it among the more than 5000 photos stored on her ancient computer. A subsequent and far more intensive search failed to recover the Report Card. It's gone forever!!
Fortunately, all is not lost and there is accountability. In preparation for her statistical analysis, Joni had jotted down the numbers not only from the 2025 Report Card, but the 2024 Report Card as well, so that Joni would have the relevant numbers at her fingertips to facilitate her own comparisons and statistical analysis. So while the Report Card for 2025 is gone, the numbers and information have survived. Joni didn't plan it that way, but that's the way it turned out!
Now, for Joni's analysis of her own Flickr activity in 2025, it begins with this photo, which was entitled as "JONI AND THOSE ROAMING EYES", and was posted onto Flickr on January 19, 2025. The selfie photo depicts Joni scanning a casino room for high rollers and potential admirers while sitting at a slot machine. It was also accompanied by a lengthy narrative, as Joni is want to do. The photo was well received by the Flickr community at that time, and was ultimately identified by Flickr as Joni's Most Viewed Photo of 2025 with a surprising 21,932 views at the time, hence being posted again here as the header for her analysis of the missing Report Card.
The photo, however, merits some additional commentary. Joni certainly likes the photo, and it did generate a substantial number of Comments and Faves, more so than most of Joni's photos do. It certainly benefitted from being posted so early in the year, giving it a head start on some of Joni's other photos, that Joni feels may have been even better. Basically, Joni must confess to some skepticism about those 21,932 views. As much as Joni wants to believe that it is an accurate number, she is haunted by the knowledge that Flickr relies upon algorithms that are alleged to be faulty and unreliable, and prone to manipulation and exaggeration. This may be one of those photos. Joni says this because it generated more than twice the number of views than the next most viewed photo of hers from last year, and almost double the number of views that her Most Viewed Photo from 2024 generated! . . . .One cannot help but suspect that "something is rotten in Denmark." I hope this doesn't burst anyone else's bubbles, if they crave numbers as a measure of their own attractiveness and popularity, but actually it should. . . .Of course, in the words of that famous NFL football coach, "You are what your numbers say you are!". Thanks, Coach! . . . .So Joni will not be seeking a recount!
Now before Joni starts to crunch her numbers, she wishes to acknowledge that statistically speaking, 2025 was on the surface a very disappointing year. How disappointing, you ask?? . . . Consider the evidence:
Joni's photos generated only 379,565 Views among the Flickr community in 2025, after generating 453,459 Views in 2024 for a decrease of 73, 894 Views, or a decrease of 16.3% in Viewership!!!
Even more alarming was the drop in the number of Joni's photos that were Faved by others on Flickr. Joni's photos generated 962 Favorites across the Flickr Universe in 2025 as compared to 1,361 Faved photos in 2024. The 399 less Faved photos represented a seemingly catastrophic drop of 29.3%!!!
Similarly, there was a significant drop off in the number of Comments that Joni's photos received, although not as severe as the decline in Views and Faves. Joni's photos received only 897 Comments in 2025 compared to 979 Comments in 2024, a drop of 82 Comments. The loss in Commentary represented a decline of only 8.4%
Undaunted by all the negative numbers, Joni sloughed them off, denying that she was the victim of an anti-Joni conspiracy. Rather, Joni pointed out that the apparent drop in her popularity could be explained by the drop in the number of photos she posted in 2025. Joni posted only 78 new photos is 2025, compared to 143 new photos posted in 2024. The 65 fewer photos represented a whopping decrease of 45.5%!!! All off which, Joni says, goes a long way toward explaining all of the negative numbers.
When asked to explain why she had posted so many fewer photos in 2025, Joni responded in this way: First and foremost, Joni does not subscribe to, nor pays for a Flickr Porno Account, meaning that she is limited to posting a maximum of 1,000 photos; a limitation that she has bumped up against a couple of times in recent years, necessitating purges. As such, she is always cognizant of the fact that adding new photos leads to deleting old photos. It's a vicious cycle! . . . Secondly, Joni didn't attend the Keystone Conference in 2025 over her concerns about security. Keystone offers many opportunities for photo ops with old friends and new friends, many of whom are on Flickr. Some girls are known to take hundreds of photos during that Conference; so much so, that they have enough photos to post for the rest of the year without ever going out again! It's true! Indeed, Joni would admit that she didn't get out as often as she would have liked for a
variety of reasons in 2025; another contributing factor to the decline.
Finally, however, Joni would cite a more overriding reason for the decline in the number of her photos being posted. She has come to the realization that she spends too much time on Flickr in general, and at times feels addicted, as her wife claims. She made a New Year's Resolution in 2025 to spend less time on Flickr last year, and is making the same Resolution this year. The numbers from last year are a mixed bag on this point. Joni actually made 1,525 Comments on the Photos of others, which seems like a lot, considering that she only received 897 Comments, which is a clear imbalance, but Joni is not necessarily transactional when it comes to Commenting. The good news is that it represents 153 fewer Comments than she made in 2024 or a decrease of 9.1%. That progress however, is somewhat offset by the 169 photos she Faved in 2025, an increase of 24 more Faved Photos than the 145 she Faved in 2024, or an increase of 16.6%. Joni indicates that the increase can largely be explained by her infatuation with one particular gorgeous woman she met on Flickr over the past year. (Yes, J.P., I'm talking about you!!!) Overall, Joni's effort to wean herself away from Flickr wasn't good enough and she hopes to do better in 2026. . . . Then there is the whole issue involving the use of A.I. by so many women on Flickr. Joni, like so many other women on Fllckr does not use it, and doesn't like it. However with the use of A.I. seemingly on the rise among women on Flickr to enhance, if not distort, their photos, it may be easier to disengage from Flickr than Joni thinks is possible.
Finally, Flickr reported that the person Joni interacted with the most on Flickr in 2025 was also the same person who interacted with Joni the most in 2025. If one believes that Joni has become more opinionated and surly over the past year, it may be the influence of Ms. Surly herself - Pamela Lennon!! Pamela has become one of Joni's best friends on Flickr. Pamela is, of course, well known on Flickr for her sense of fashion and commands a much larger audience than Joni. Indeed, it may even border on a cult, but beyond the numbers, they are kindred spirits!
JONI'S FLICKR REPORT CARD FOR 2025.
Like everyone else on Flickr, Joni was issued a Flickr Report Card in mid-December with a statistical analysis of her activities on Flickr for the year 2025. Like kids with a bad report card which they don't want their parents to see, Joni has seemingly destroyed hers. She deleted it! . . ."By accident, Mom! I'm not lying! Maybe the dog ate it!" . . . Well, Joni doesn't have a dog, but she's not lying. She really did delete it, but it really was an accident. . . . Honestly!
Here's what happened . . . Joni downloaded the report card onto her computer and added it to her queued up photos for posting on her photostream, awaiting only a narrative by Joni of her own statistical analysis of the report card, relative to last year's report card, which by the way can be accessed at the bottom of this same first page, which in itself offers a telling clue about Joni's Flickr activity for 2025. Bogged down by Christmas shopping, wrapping, and decorating, as well as shingling a doll house roof, Joni was delayed in preparing the narrative for her Flickr Report Card and as Christmas arrived, Joni deleted the Report Card from her Flickr queue for what she intended to be a temporary period to make room for three Christmas-themed photos. However, when Joni tried to add it back to her photostream's queue, she couldn't find it among the more than 5000 photos stored on her ancient computer. A subsequent and far more intensive search failed to recover the Report Card. It's gone forever!!
Fortunately, all is not lost and there is accountability. In preparation for her statistical analysis, Joni had jotted down the numbers not only from the 2025 Report Card, but the 2024 Report Card as well, so that Joni would have the relevant numbers at her fingertips to facilitate her own comparisons and statistical analysis. So while the Report Card for 2025 is gone, the numbers and information have survived. Joni didn't plan it that way, but that's the way it turned out!
Now, for Joni's analysis of her own Flickr activity in 2025, it begins with this photo, which was entitled as "JONI AND THOSE ROAMING EYES", and was posted onto Flickr on January 19, 2025. The selfie photo depicts Joni scanning a casino room for high rollers and potential admirers while sitting at a slot machine. It was also accompanied by a lengthy narrative, as Joni is want to do. The photo was well received by the Flickr community at that time, and was ultimately identified by Flickr as Joni's Most Viewed Photo of 2025 with a surprising 21,932 views at the time, hence being posted again here as the header for her analysis of the missing Report Card.
The photo, however, merits some additional commentary. Joni certainly likes the photo, and it did generate a substantial number of Comments and Faves, more so than most of Joni's photos do. It certainly benefitted from being posted so early in the year, giving it a head start on some of Joni's other photos, that Joni feels may have been even better. Basically, Joni must confess to some skepticism about those 21,932 views. As much as Joni wants to believe that it is an accurate number, she is haunted by the knowledge that Flickr relies upon algorithms that are alleged to be faulty and unreliable, and prone to manipulation and exaggeration. This may be one of those photos. Joni says this because it generated more than twice the number of views than the next most viewed photo of hers from last year, and almost double the number of views that her Most Viewed Photo from 2024 generated! . . . .One cannot help but suspect that "something is rotten in Denmark." I hope this doesn't burst anyone else's bubbles, if they crave numbers as a measure of their own attractiveness and popularity, but actually it should. . . .Of course, in the words of that famous NFL football coach, "You are what your numbers say you are!". Thanks, Coach! . . . .So Joni will not be seeking a recount!
Now before Joni starts to crunch her numbers, she wishes to acknowledge that statistically speaking, 2025 was on the surface a very disappointing year. How disappointing, you ask?? . . . Consider the evidence:
Joni's photos generated only 379,565 Views among the Flickr community in 2025, after generating 453,459 Views in 2024 for a decrease of 73, 894 Views, or a decrease of 16.3% in Viewership!!!
Even more alarming was the drop in the number of Joni's photos that were Faved by others on Flickr. Joni's photos generated 962 Favorites across the Flickr Universe in 2025 as compared to 1,361 Faved photos in 2024. The 399 less Faved photos represented a seemingly catastrophic drop of 29.3%!!!
Similarly, there was a significant drop off in the number of Comments that Joni's photos received, although not as severe as the decline in Views and Faves. Joni's photos received only 897 Comments in 2025 compared to 979 Comments in 2024, a drop of 82 Comments. The loss in Commentary represented a decline of only 8.4%
Undaunted by all the negative numbers, Joni sloughed them off, denying that she was the victim of an anti-Joni conspiracy. Rather, Joni pointed out that the apparent drop in her popularity could be explained by the drop in the number of photos she posted in 2025. Joni posted only 78 new photos is 2025, compared to 143 new photos posted in 2024. The 65 fewer photos represented a whopping decrease of 45.5%!!! All off which, Joni says, goes a long way toward explaining all of the negative numbers.
When asked to explain why she had posted so many fewer photos in 2025, Joni responded in this way: First and foremost, Joni does not subscribe to, nor pays for a Flickr Porno Account, meaning that she is limited to posting a maximum of 1,000 photos; a limitation that she has bumped up against a couple of times in recent years, necessitating purges. As such, she is always cognizant of the fact that adding new photos leads to deleting old photos. It's a vicious cycle! . . . Secondly, Joni didn't attend the Keystone Conference in 2025 over her concerns about security. Keystone offers many opportunities for photo ops with old friends and new friends, many of whom are on Flickr. Some girls are known to take hundreds of photos during that Conference; so much so, that they have enough photos to post for the rest of the year without ever going out again! It's true! Indeed, Joni would admit that she didn't get out as often as she would have liked for a
variety of reasons in 2025; another contributing factor to the decline.
Finally, however, Joni would cite a more overriding reason for the decline in the number of her photos being posted. She has come to the realization that she spends too much time on Flickr in general, and at times feels addicted, as her wife claims. She made a New Year's Resolution in 2025 to spend less time on Flickr last year, and is making the same Resolution this year. The numbers from last year are a mixed bag on this point. Joni actually made 1,525 Comments on the Photos of others, which seems like a lot, considering that she only received 897 Comments, which is a clear imbalance, but Joni is not necessarily transactional when it comes to Commenting. The good news is that it represents 153 fewer Comments than she made in 2024 or a decrease of 9.1%. That progress however, is somewhat offset by the 169 photos she Faved in 2025, an increase of 24 more Faved Photos than the 145 she Faved in 2024, or an increase of 16.6%. Joni indicates that the increase can largely be explained by her infatuation with one particular gorgeous woman she met on Flickr over the past year. (Yes, J.P., I'm talking about you!!!) Overall, Joni's effort to wean herself away from Flickr wasn't good enough and she hopes to do better in 2026. . . . Then there is the whole issue involving the use of A.I. by so many women on Flickr. Joni, like so many other women on Fllckr does not use it, and doesn't like it. However with the use of A.I. seemingly on the rise among women on Flickr to enhance, if not distort, their photos, it may be easier to disengage from Flickr than Joni thinks is possible.
Finally, Flickr reported that the person Joni interacted with the most on Flickr in 2025 was also the same person who interacted with Joni the most in 2025. If one believes that Joni has become more opinionated and surly over the past year, it may be the influence of Ms. Surly herself - Pamela Lennon!! Pamela has become one of Joni's best friends on Flickr. Pamela is, of course, well known on Flickr for her sense of fashion and commands a much larger audience than Joni. Indeed, it may even border on a cult, but beyond the numbers, they are kindred spirits!