I remember the fun, irreverent blog "Stuff White People Like", satirizing the recreational tastes of upper-middle class college-educated Americans. Then one day the author got a book deal and the blog ended abruptly.

That would have been around 2010 or so. Since then it has felt like the entire Internet, from Youtube and Twitch all the way down to Patreon and Gofundme, has turned into a big tip jar.