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SA was very influential, but how could Lowtax have become a billionaire from it? I'm not sure obscure Internet comedy is all that lucrative.
by meowface 7y ago
SA was very influential, but how could Lowtax have become a billionaire from it? I'm not sure obscure Internet comedy is all that lucrative.
- koboll 7y agotumblr was sold for $1.1 billion, and it's largely obscure Internet comedy.
- meowface 7y agoTumblr is a lot closer to a social network than a forum, and I'd say only a small subset of it is comedy. Also, Tumblr has 460 million registered accounts and SA has 200k. That's probably partly because it costs $10 to sign up on SA, so alt accounts are uncommon, whereas accounts are cost-free on Tumblr, so some people may have many alt accounts. But Tumblr still gets way more traffic.
- ctvo 7y agoI was being hyperbolic about the billionaire claim. Mainly SA was ahead of its time on what the internet could be. What people were willing to pay for and what makes a good community. It failed to take any of those ideas outside the realm of a comedy forum, which isn't a bad thing, maybe Lowtax was happy with that. I'm wistfully in what-could-have-been mode since the products I use these days (Reddit, Twitter) are a poor approximation for what SA was at its height.
- throwaway2048 7y agoI'm not so sure, plenty of people became billionaires from the trends that directly originated at SA.
- WalterGR 7y agoExamples?
- hombre_fatal 7y agoTyler Malka (Evilore) of Neogaf (gaming forum) boasted many times about being a millionaire from ads.