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Re:Jezebel to shut down after 16 years as parent company lay... by formerly_proven on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:06PM (#38212675)
Didn't the onion videos die because of inflated view counts reported by Facebook Videos? IIRC there were some fairly expensive settlements around that.
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Re:Jezebel to shut down after 16 years as parent company lay... by TMWNN on Thursday November 09, 2023 @08:24PM (#38213848)
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).
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