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Oh yes the "chumbox" https://theawl.com/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum-de0b7a070a2d https://theawl.com/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum-de0b...
by ericthor 10y ago
Oh yes the "chumbox" https://theawl.com/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum-de0b7a070a2d https://theawl.com/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum-de0b...
- mrgreenfur 10y agoThis is a great way to look at these things, love the analogy.
- colanderman 10y agoThat's funny, I got through the first paragraph and thought "wow, that was a short article". To my brain, chumboxes are what mark the end of an article.
- austinz 10y agoWhat a great summary of the utter baseness of this type of advertising: a stomach-turning body horror image I never wanted to see, some article calling strangers "morons" based on some stupid superficiality, and gossip about the private lives of strangers that is, quite frankly, none of my business. That being said, if these companies vanished tomorrow it wouldn't be a complete positive either, since the fine sociopaths of the advertising industry would simply use the resultant vacuum to come up with something even more contemptible. Fuck that industry.