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BuzzFeed, Blue Check Marks, and the End of an Internet Era
- cratermoon 4y ago"they will continue to encourage us to churn out content for free; they will work ruthlessly to capture our attention and then commodify it through every possible avenue" The author left out the part about how, having perfected the extraction of profit from the users, move on to extracting profit from the advertisers while manipulating them into staying on the platform for lack of alternative ways to reach potential customers.