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It started with YouTube thumbnails and leaked from there. It just gets more clicks compared to a legitimate photo
by 1970-01-01 1y ago
It started with YouTube thumbnails and leaked from there. It just gets more clicks compared to a legitimate photo
- hn_throwaway_99 1y agoI can get it for some rando YouTube video. For an article that is supposed to at least smell like journalism, it looks so trashy.
- perihelions 1y agoJournalism? It's literally just a blog—a very successful car-influencer blog that's in the past earned 6-figure payments from Tesla itself[0], for their very successful shilling of Teslas. Journalism is a thing of its own; blogs aren't it. [0] https://www.thedrive.com/news/24025/electreks-editor-in-chief-publisher-both-scoring-250000-tesla-roadsters-for-free-by-gaming-referral-program https://www.thedrive.com/news/24025/electreks-editor-in-chie... ("Electrek’s Editor-in-Chief, Publisher Both Scoring $250,000 Tesla Roadsters for Free by Gaming Referral Program": "What happens to objective coverage when a free six-figure car is at play? Nothing good." (2018))