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X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad (mashable.com)
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X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad::undefined

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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 194 points 2 years ago (47 children)

Remember, when people made content just for the fun of it

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

Fuck, remember webcomics?

Achewood, Diesel Sweeties, Cat and Girl, Penny Arcade, Cyanide & Happiness, Joe and Monkey, Questionable Content, Dresden Codak (always updated way too infrequently), Dinosaur Comics, Gone With the Blastwave, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, The Perry Bible Fellowship, When I Grow Up/WIGU/Overcompensating, Married to the Sea, hell, even CTRL+ALT+DEL left us with Loss. I could go on, there's definitely more.

...but I don't like to talk about what happened with SinFest.

A lot of these sites had advertising, but I don't remember any of it being so off-putting that I felt the need for an adblocker. Honestly, at this point, I don't even recall if adblockers were a thing yet in 2000-2005.

So much content in those early aughts. I'm still waiting on a Complete Achewood. Damn you, Chris Onstad!

I was always a little disappointed I never was able to get a "I'm the guy who sucks/plus I got depres-sion" shirts.

[–] jak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anders loves Maria

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hell, I'm about to go and edit my original comment and make links to any that are still around. Looks like a lot of them are!

Here's the link for Anders loves Maria.

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