"Yahoo later shut down other sites that were pilfering Geocities as a storage service, but strangely they didn't shut down HotOrNot. Hong later found out that p

"Yahoo later shut down other sites that were pilfering Geocities as a storage service, but strangely they didn't shut down HotOrNot. Hong later found out that people at Yahoo really liked HotOrNot and did not want to be known as the company that killed it."