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CollegeHumor shuts down
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't follow. How is that not "shutting down"? It's contracted to life support in order to empty the existing pipeline to minimize losses. Maybe this is a Ship of Theseus kind of thing. They get rid of almost all employees, empty the pipeline, and then retool. What's left of College Humor?
> It's contracted to life support in order to empty the existing pipeline to minimize losses. Is it really life support? Or simply, what is always should have been? Do you really need 100 staffs for College Humor? For the production side, sure you may need quite a bit of staff for each individual production, but once a production is done, you no longer need them, but you still have to pay them. How long you'll have t…
Seems like a dramatic announcement if this was just a big downsizing. Seems more like a shut down with a few hail Mary moves to try to turn it into a big downsizing.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Adam Conover (Adam Ruins Everything guy) tweeted a good thread that explains this: https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/1183209875859333120
If I read this correctly I'm not the only one who shys away from video content?
If this is the fact, does that mean we can get plain text back?
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't follow. How is that not "shutting down"? It's contracted to life support in order to empty the existing pipeline to minimize losses. Maybe this is a Ship of Theseus kind of thing. They get rid of almost all employees, empty the pipeline, and then retool. What's left of College Humor?
> It's contracted to life support in order to empty the existing pipeline to minimize losses. Is it really life support? Or simply, what is always should have been? Do you really need 100 staffs for College Humor? For the production side, sure you may need quite a bit of staff for each individual production, but once a production is done, you no longer need them, but you still have to pay them. How long you'll have t…
I'd be surprised if many of these "employees" weren't actually contractors or part-time roles as is typical of institutions which lean heavily on college-attending employees who need to work around their class schedule or are purely entry level on their way to a more traditional career.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! This is kind of depressing; I suspect that $40 million is barely a blip in Facebook's advertising budget, so the sad part is that this probably had almost-literally no effect on them. I guess it's not a new thing for corporations to own the world, but it's always sad when I'm reminded of it.
To put that in perspective.. In Q3 2019, Facebook had nearly $18B in revenue. Therefore, $40M is about 5 hours of their revenue.
Crazy. That would be like an average American household getting fined $150 (63000/40/52)... so a speeding ticket basically.
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#166Presumably Sam now owns the rights to all the content. He could shop it around to Netflix/Hulu/Amazon. I’ll bet one of them would pick it up and maybe even give him a budget to hire some of the writers back and make new content again.
Putting it all behind yet another walled garden? Before you know it, 90% of the internet will be gated behind paywalls or signups.
> Before you know it, 90% of the internet will be gated behind paywalls or signups.
I'll take that over "gone".
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it does not in my opinion. What problem described above would crypto solve?
Patreon taking a cut and not allowing adult content. Payment processing and facilitating has tangible expenses (cost) and payment processors do not want to get involved with any companies involved with sordid industries (higher fraud). Patreon adopting crypto cuts out the middleman processor and solves both problems. But crypto ia too user-unfriendly at the moment, so usage would be very limited.
Crypto transfer costs on small payments are higher than traditional payment networks.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it does not in my opinion. What problem described above would crypto solve?
Patreon taking a cut and not allowing adult content. Payment processing and facilitating has tangible expenses (cost) and payment processors do not want to get involved with any companies involved with sordid industries (higher fraud). Patreon adopting crypto cuts out the middleman processor and solves both problems. But crypto ia too user-unfriendly at the moment, so usage would be very limited.
A more approachable solution (for the general public, at least) would be a payment processing service that takes the risk of working with adult content creators. But that seems like a tall ask, especially for a problem that's pretty niche. Porn makes a lot of money, but not for the people who're just handling the payments. Or, rather, it might make them a good amount but it's probably the same as the profit from other industries, except with added risk.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
When you can objectively measure results, you'll often find that the people making decisions in an organization aren't as competent as they seem. It's a bitter pill to swallow when you realize that most of the people you have to take orders from didn't get to where they are through intelligence, hard work and character.
Reminded of this line from Margin Call:
"So, Mr. Sullivan, why don't you tell me what you think is going on here, and please speak as you might to a young child or a golden retriever. I didn't get here on my brains -- I can assure you of that."
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#170CH used to run a facebook competitor called "Campus Hook". I met who would later become my wife there in the early 2000s. Online dating was yet to become mainstream, so we made up a story about how we met lest we look like weirdos. Now that app dating is a thing, we can just tell the story as it happened.
Thanks, CH!