I have tons of opinions, and am very good at articulating them. I used to write even for a game review site that was on the professsional side of metacritic for a time, and shortly after I joined, they were laying off, but I was a good enough writer that even though I joined within a month, I got to stay.

It wasn't a big thing. I only got paid in free games. The hope was that the site would grow, but it never went anywhere, but still, I got my review scores on some fairly major games impacting the overall score on metacritic, so it's a nice little notch in my belt.

My opinions would cover the gamut; games, movies, music, culture, Christianity, theology, politics, race.

That's why it will be called something like "too many opinions" because I'm acknowledging that I'm too opinionated. The end goal is something akin to "The greatest page in the Universe" that Maddox had, but not as arrogant because even as a character, it's not compatible with my Christian life.

But creating and hosting your own website requires money, and know how, something I have neither of.

It won't turn a profit because it won't show up in search results. That's why I have to create a blog, gain a potential following and then transition to some format where I can potentially make money.

The question, to finally get to the question is; what blogging type host site is my best shot to gain an audience considering I'll be spanning the spectrum of all types of topics from geeky to philosophical and everything in between.

I asked AI to give me a rundown, but as you know, it just picks what it thinks are the most helpful sites, whereas people can say something like "avoid wordpress; I tried it and got zero views, despite SEO and whatnot"

I don't know if that above statement is true or not, just an example. I would like real experience to know where to begin and not build up a sunken cost fallacy by starting in the wrong place.