❜Thank you for the flowers❜ — 🌻 — Danke, aber es reicht. Originalcontent ( ■■■■■■■■■■□ 11 HQ Photos + ª ƦĄnⓉ ) by lrock

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❜Thank you for the flowers❜ — 🌻 — Danke, aber es reicht. Originalcontent ( ■■■■■■■■■■□ 11 HQ Photos + ª ƦĄnⓉ )
```Rage Against Flower Porn ```
 
I LOVE FLOWERS 💘   I really do! And i will show you the most beautiful flowers you will see today! 
 
🌻  They were all mine Ⓒ — given to me on my 42nd birthday 🎂  
The very next day I took pictures. Now they are dead.  

Enjoy!

![blumen-29.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdug2GDdTn2XyoeXrmRn92bZkRP2pN3WXtjB9pHetfbNq/blumen-29.jpg)

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And thanks again for watching and for making it so far out!

Now this will get a little bit controversial. While I TRULY LOVE FLOWERS, i actually HATE to see so many flower porn posts [FPPs] getting huge rewards on steemit. I know this will put some of people off, but i have to go on with my ƦĄnⓉ and i will tell you why i think posting flowers is bad and lame for everyone.

But let's get this straight first: Who am I to tell you to stop posting flowers on a platform that is supposed to be uncencorable? Everybody should just go on posting what she/he/it wants, period. But i would love to see the value of flower photography posts [FPP] diminish and adjust to its real value or less.

What i want you to consider is:
* ### Flowers are bad for you
* ### Refrain from upvoting posts that contains mediocre flower porn
* ### Flower Porn Posts [FPPs] are bad for all of us
* ### Adjust your bots and trails, stop circle jerking on flowers
* ### Keep calm and avoid flowers

## 

## Here's why:

 

### Flowers are lame, because:

* it's a low hanging fruit. it's just too easy to head to the park and snap some lilies. Yes, it's a little bit more clever than cloud-mining bitcoins, but not that much. The Flower Porn Reserve [FPR] will dry out soon. Try harder.
* Flowers can't move, they don't have issues, always pretty. It's an easy target to get. Everybody can do it. You can do better and you have to — because soon anybody will do better than this. It's called competition and flowers don't compute very well.
* There's not very much value to a scroll of flower porn pictures, because information density is low. After all what can/do flowers tell us?
* Actually, a picture of a flower in the year 2017 will tell us only this: "I used to be just a beautiful flower, but i became an asset on a social blockchain network [SBN] thanks to some bloke who gambled my devine beauty for rewards. It didn't work out." 

 
### Flower Porn Posts [FPPs] are bad for all of us because:
* It will hurt steem's price badly when somebody finds out that 12.4% of a $970 million market cap is backed by ordinary flower porn pics [FPPs]
* There's not much value to random mediocre flower shots. It puts people off when they see that sub-quality content is highly rewarded. It makes steemit look like a scam.
* Indeed it makes the look of Steemit quite offputting to a designer's/artist's/photographer's eye.
* Flowers suck up the reward pool and prevent great, truly original content to be rewarded accordingly.


### There's evidence that flowers don't pay out
* Have you ever tried to apply for art school or to a photo competition with your flower power shots? No? Lucky you, because flowers are the number one disqualifier.  
* Ever heard of Tulip Mania? It was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which prices for tulips reached extraordinarily high levels and then dramatically collapsed. True story, says [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania)
* Last time i checked my timelines on instagram, twitter, facebook and medium i haven't seen ANY flowers at all. I hardly see any flowers anywhere on the web. Maybe that makes steemit special. If that's true we live in a flower bubble. Good luck and thanks for the fish.
* Flowers may trick you. They may make you believe that the man on the picture below is out of his mind. But although he's wearing a suit with tulips printed on, the guy is actually very smart, witness, and steemfest organizer!
# 
![post1895fd4b-300.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbbetBcszWyiHHYUKVHoHwADveUQf18BFKfe7Lrh65vRo/post1895fd4b-300.jpg)
@roelandp at SteemFest, Nov 2016, Amsterdam
 
## What you can do to stop the Flower Porn Bubble [FPB]
* ### Step back from FPPs
* ### Stop upvoting flowers, it inflates the bubble
* ### Don't ask what a flower can do for you, ask yourself what makes flowers flourish
* ### Pay someone to give you a bouquet of flowers and make someone else happy
* ### Flowers ARE beautiful: Go out and smell, eat and kill them but refrain from 📵  and 📷  . (There's already enough)
* ### Post whatever you want, but please stop putting "HQ", "High Quality" or "Original" in title or the body of your post
* ### Make people aware. If appropriate comment on flower posts with the STOP FLOWER PORN Badge provided below 
* ### Be alert. Watch out for bubbles.

![stop-flower-porn-red -250.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeMZDdurQ3ydWJp8YxpEpAiB9GJjwhTNJwCgpx9eDABGe/stop-flower-porn-red%20-250.jpg) 
## 
STOP FLOWER PORN original high quality badge for anyone to use

# 🌻🌻🌻  THANK YOU FOR THE FLOWERS  🌻🌻🌻

Sorry for this, it had to be said. 
 
All the best,

~ @lrock


📵   Shot at my studio using my good old mirrorless 
DSLR MicroFourThird™  LUMIX GH2 with the 20mm f/1.7 Pancake 

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@shahzad200888 · 
good
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@shahzad200888 · 
please upvote and follow me i also and team work .. thanx and good work
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@arckrai · 
I didn't realise that flower porn was a real thing.
Actually, these photos kinda sexually arouse me. haha
Great Photos man. You are truly talented
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@inuk · 
Nice pictures
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@steemitqa · 
Great job!
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@welovesteemit ·
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Upvoted and resteemed :-)
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@lrock ·
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Thanks for your understanding ;-)
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@mkdmrs · (edited)
Very nice pictures :)
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@sature ·
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So funny, made me laugh a lot (also the "nice pictures" comments)! To be honest, I also love flowers and some posts have really nice and calming pictures to see. And I have so many flower pictures in my archives... But you are right. We are in a growing dandelion bubble and soon the wind might blow us all away. 
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@lrock · 
haha!!
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