Just the other day, my wife found some enjoyable series of super short story jokes on Facebook. For once this was actually nice, original content, sliced in <2m

Just the other day, my wife found some enjoyable series of super short story jokes on Facebook. For once this was actually nice, original content, sliced in <2min videos, one per story. The ads were inserted somewhere in the middle of each one, for 30~45s, every single time completely ruining the gag delivery. Eventually we gave up, it was ridiculously obnoxious. Ad platforms are killing content: seems like to generate any revenue you either get very generic stuff at high audience, or a long tail of dark-pattern riddled crap. The middle ground where really good creative stuff happens basically doesn't exist/quickly dies, relies on Patreon and such, or gets so many ads it's unconsumable.