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I think the answer is much simpler: - they basically started as listicle sites - pivoting from silliness to "seriousness" is hard ... and when 'everyone think
by warrenm 3y ago
I think the answer is much simpler:
- they basically started as listicle sites
- pivoting from silliness to "seriousness" is hard ... and when 'everyone thinks you're a joke' ... they're going to continue to treat you like a joke
that ... and they weren't very discriminating as to who/what they allowed to advertise
- Mistletoe 3y agoI think it’s even more simple than that. They, like so many other things, were a zero interest rate phenomenon. https://independentspeculator.com/tech-privilege-a-zero-interest-rate-phenomenon https://independentspeculator.com/tech-privilege-a-zero-inte...
- warrenm 3y agonice double entendre on "zero interest" :)
- dagw 3y agoI agree that this is true for BuzzFeed, but it doesn't really ring true for Vice. Vice started off by doing some fairly serious and gonzo reporting on stories no one else was interested in. This got them noticed and some of it got at least begrudgingly taken seriously by more serious journalists. Say what you want, but Vice won real awards for their reporting. Then they more or less gave up on all of that and put all their energy into running a listicle site.