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I don't think that's it, quite exactly. I think it's more that when people see stats for lots of eyeballs they too often think "if we monetize those to the max,
by InclinedPlane 10y ago
I don't think that's it, quite exactly. I think it's more that when people see stats for lots of eyeballs they too often think "if we monetize those to the max, think of the money we could make" and then that shifts into thinking they're leaving money on the table.
- oblio 10y agoThe thing is, while there is huge demand for image hosting sites, that demand is really low "quality". After all, we're talking about sites hosting memes and screenshots from games, not original works of art created after tens and hundreds of hours of laboring in Photoshop.
- boyce 10y agoAll the pictures of text too, just because text posts on Reddit don't earn karma
- NoGravitas 10y agoAnd to get around the 140 character limit on Twitter. Though admittedly, most of those are on twimg rather than imgur.