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Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by linuxftw »

yoz-y wrote: post #55
notyourwork wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I try not to judge people by their respective comments but in this case I would venture to guess you are below 25 years of age.

Missed that by almost a decade. I just feel that there is a lot of nostalgia for the old times whereas nothing is actually preventing people from doing what was done before. Replying a bit transversally here, but I was on IRC 18 years ago and still am every day. Any game you have played before can be played now, easier than before, heck we are just organizing Worms I tournament. Youtube is still full of funny stuff a…

Search engines are preventing what was done before.

Yahoo search would bring up sites on geocities, or small indy sites, for pretty much any topic.

For instance, in the mid 90's you could search for the band "Green Day" on yahoo, and get all sorts of personal fan pages. Now it's 100% corporate crap results.

Independent users no longer have the 'reach' as the corporate users do. We used to share cool things via word of mouth on IRC or AIM or ICQ. Now people just share memes on facebook.

Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by GCA10 »

rchaud wrote: post #53
echelon wrote: post #24

CollegeHumor is blaming this on Facebook for faking viewership numbers. This isn't the first time Facebook killed culture, and it won't be the last. We really need to de-platform or find a way Facebook can't steal value.

Platform giveth, platform taketh away. There used to be a time where you actually had to go to collegehumor.com to watch the videos. Once everyone turned into sharecroppers on FB, Youtube or whatever, this was the risk they took.

Anyone who worked at Zynga in 2013-14 could share some fine stories about what it's like to bet everything on the prospect of lots of good Facebook traffic for the indefinite future.

All or nothing partnerships between startups and giant companies have been toxic/fatal in many cases since the days of vacuum tubes. They can work nicely. But supreme due diligence and even suspicion are necessary along the way.

Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by ceejayoz »

riffraff wrote: post #69
mikepurvis wrote: post #51

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Relevant Twitter thread from Adam Conover ("Adam Ruins Everything"): https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/1183209875859333120 An article about the settlement, including a link to the document itself: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/facebook-pay-40-mi...

what I don't get is, if they saw a high number of views on FB with no actual revenue, why didn't they revert to their previous behavior of just sharing links?

Some of the revenue will have been CH directly selling ads (sponsorships, product placement, etc.) based on those inflated viewership counts.

Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by rs23296008n1 »

3xblah wrote: post #54
MisterTea wrote: post #46

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The bigger joke is a web page can hijack your browser.

This joke must be too highbrow because no one seems to get it. https://github.com/luruke/browser-2020

Wow. I didn't know even half that list. Excellent for usability and, unfortunately, more fingerprinting. I'm hoping all of these are covered by existing whitelisting/blacklisting.

Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by z3phyr »

madamelic wrote: post #56
badrequest wrote: post #32

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Especially not CollegeHumor content, most of which was scattershot hope-something-goes-viral bro humor.

I disagree strongly. Maybe some of their skits had bro humor but it always seemed like either generic humor or geek centric than anything.

What is bro humor? Just see random memes on initial google search.

Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by yoz-y »

linuxftw wrote: post #71
yoz-y wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Missed that by almost a decade. I just feel that there is a lot of nostalgia for the old times whereas nothing is actually preventing people from doing what was done before. Replying a bit transversally here, but I was on IRC 18 years ago and still am every day. Any game you have played before can be played now, easier than before, heck we are just organizing Worms I tournament. Youtube is still full of funny stuff a…

Search engines are preventing what was done before. Yahoo search would bring up sites on geocities, or small indy sites, for pretty much any topic. For instance, in the mid 90's you could search for the band "Green Day" on yahoo, and get all sorts of personal fan pages. Now it's 100% corporate crap results. Independent users no longer have the 'reach' as the corporate users do. We used to share cool things via word o…

> We used to share cool things via word of mouth on IRC or AIM or ICQ. Now people just share memes on facebook.

I still share cool stuff with groups of friends via hangouts, irc and iMessage. I find a lot of cool stuff right here on HN too.

As for memes, yeah, I can’t argue that mass appeal jokes bubble up to the top.

Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by m-p-3 »

sitkack wrote: post #6

CollegeHumor had same damn well written, well produced comedic satire. I hope all of their material is archived. One thing to watch out for is if this posted under their Geuite account to YouTube, when the gsuite bill isn’t paid, all the YouTube videos will get deleted, leaving a cultural hole. Of all the Google crimes, this one is accidental but the most damaging to society.

Good to know, time to archive with youtube-dl and make a torrent out of it, and/or publish them on a PeerTube instance.

Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by shawabawa3 »

synlatexc wrote: post #62
amylene wrote: post #45

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I am out of the loop, what were the Metrics that FB falsified? And how did they falsify them before the video was hosted on their site? Just trying to understand how their game numbers caused this post, and I can’t seem to make it connect.

FB's measure of views was dubious (3 seconds, even if the audio was off). So the #s looked great for them, but in reality the majority of views were just glimpses as people scrolled through their news feed.

I don't understand why publishers moved everything wholesale onto Facebook without doing some research

Why not put up a few videos and compare ad revenue? When it didn't add up they could just move back...

Re: CollegeHumor shuts down

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Post by neaden »

macspoofing wrote: post #48
echelon wrote: post #24

CollegeHumor is blaming this on Facebook for faking viewership numbers. This isn't the first time Facebook killed culture, and it won't be the last. We really need to de-platform or find a way Facebook can't steal value.

>CollegeHumor is blaming this on Facebook for faking viewership numbers. Facebook should certainly be held responsible for their part, but let's not let CollegeHumor of the hook. In the end, they are responsible for their business, and moving to an unproven platform is very risky no matter what promises FB sales people tell you.

That's ridiculous. If someone commits fraud and you believe them that is their fault, not yours for being a victim.
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