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Say you set up this vending machine today. More and more people quickly find out about it. Eventually a few people are waiting for it to be restocked so they ca
by Nition 5y ago
Say you set up this vending machine today. More and more people quickly find out about it. Eventually a few people are waiting for it to be restocked so they can quickly buy all the rare cans and sell them on eBay, so it's empty most of the time. Maybe the owner gets discovered. The fun is gone and it gets removed.
- kibwen 5y agoThis is subject to survivorship bias, though. These days it's certainly easier for things to go viral, but things can only go viral if they get found in the first place and, crucially, if those who found it choose to share it. Maybe the clout economy of instagram etc. increases the odds that people will expose such things for likes, but I personally know of at least one fantastic, incredible (, almost certainly illegal) thing in the woods in my hometown of Pittsburgh that I'll never tell anybody for fear of it becoming popular. Look for it yourself. :P
- Nition 5y agoYeah, good point. Of course most of the big things you know about got ruined, because the ones that didn't get too popular, you don't know about.