Re:Jezebel to shut down after 16 years as parent company lay...
by formerly_proven on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:06PM
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Didn't the onion videos die because of inflated view counts reported by Facebook Videos? IIRC there were some fairly expensive settlements around that.
Re:Jezebel to shut down after 16 years as parent company lay...
by TMWNN on Thursday November 09, 2023 @08:24PM
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Is that what happened? I wonder if the same thing happened to CollegeHumor: Like The Onion, very popular YouTube videos (as measured by views) a decade ago, then suddenly disappearing (again as measured by views).
The actress who played one of the two morning-show anchors went back to her original career as a pilot, presumably because it's a more reliable paycheck. I presume that she wouldn't have done that had The Onion continued with its videos, which indeed were amazing a decade ago.