Same for any content. If successful, it will attract investors. Sell the site to these investors. Use site to sell stuff to captivated audience. Monetize every inch of space.
All these websites need attention. Once they have x amount of eyeballs they get sold. The ‘we’re just cool guys building a website’ only lasts until the money starts being offered.
Its like micro transactions. No one asked for it. But once somebody spends time creating it and puts it out there the rest of us are stuck with it. I don’t need to purchase them to be impacted by the shit wake they leave.
It is insidious the way these creators take over. Don’t get me wrong. Mr. Beast seems like a really nice guy but I don’t need to scroll past 100 videos 30 ads for Prime, 25 reaction videos just to see one cool video.
Getting compensated is reasonable to the person creating content. But it sucks for the rest of us because it erodes so much of what online life should have been.
I wish people made every corner of the internet as hostile as possible to anyone looking to use it to make money. Get the copyright, DMCA paywall types back to whatever the last platform was that they ruined. So I would love to pay nothing just to get back to a fraction of the online culture we had 15 - 20 years ago where most things were created for the sake of just creating crap to share.
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