There’s a school of thought that youtube style content isn’t good from a business perspective, that all of those downloads cost more than they can make.

Mainly it’s because American bandwidth is way too expensive due to years of infrastructure and greed.

I’d love to go back to the days where you download the videos and audio you want in the background and watch it later.

It would save the platforms so much money and make competition viable.

But people are WAAAAAY too immediate gratification oriented, they want their endless stream of 30 second fluff clips in full HD.

A rare example of people profiting during the dotcom collapse, I tip my hat to you!

Also on a side note:

A friend of mine’s dad legit did win a million dollars in one of those popups. It was really early in the advertising days and I guess they were trying something.

Anyway he paid off all his kids’ houses and bought a nice fishing truck.

I doubt it will ever happen again but I was personal witness for it happening at least once.

That said, even after watching that I have never, and will never willingly click any popup.

I would argue that the fact we are nerds means we will more often than not be right, but be unable to say it in an ego soothing way to the gorillas in suits that actually hold the budget decisions.

audio ads sampled at max volume that multiplied every time you tried to close them…

They are the reason people started making products like ublock, and why for most of the 90s I browsed the web with javascript off unless I trusted the site or needed the service for the moment.

Now nothing renders if you do and you need 3 extensions just to not constantly be mobbed by ads

Just because we’re old don’t mean we’re wrong.

I remember the first ever popup I got and how it made me fear for the future of the web.

My friends roflcopter’d and said ‘it’s only a popup’

Now look the fuck where we are now…

People who only ever know the internet through smartphones will NEVER understand our pain.

They accept the modern ultra-cluttered short attention span theater moneygrab marketplace as ‘the norm’ and it fucking makes me ill.

You aren’t here for a discussion. All you want to do is parrot off a series of barbed questions you have curated from watching spicy youtubers.

And no one except you and other edgelads enjoy that.

Maybe next time come with an original thought or two.

Bye.

And D&D and ICP and so many other things wonderful to me

They rail and they rally and burn books you see

“We must protect kids in the Land of the Free”

Many would trade a lot to be as blissfully ignorant.

I am not even sure how so much hate and ignorance lives in one woman without causing her to have constant strokes.

Oh I’m no stranger to how the right has perverted Jesus’s message, and have been bitter about that for some time.

It’s just… SO frustrating that they are so blind to hypocrisy especially considering what Jesus thought about outward displays of holiness with their mouths spouting the stench of rotting corpses.

If Jesus were alive today he’d take a lash to every fuckdamn one of them.

Most nights I fall asleep wondering what a world where most people were like that would look like.

A shitton better than the one we have I’ll say that right now.

There is desperate need for the concept of the Gnostic to take its rightful place in Christianity as a whole, there needs to be a reformation and I wish I had the resources and skills to start it.

There is such a stark difference between the compassionate, personal, and community-driven message Jesus spoke as compared to the insular, socially stingy, and hierarchical lives that his conservative supposed followers live.

And the sad thing is I really think they’d be a lot happier if they gave up on their worldly obsessions and bigotries and ACTUALLY read what he said. I know I am.

I wouldn’t go that far…

As a progressive Christian who hates everything MTG stands for, this is kind of disheartening to hear…