How have there been so many journalism websites that came out in the last decade or so that had the exact same idea?

epic, my fellow redditor

Identity.

Opinions about politics are fashion accessories. Democracy has been entirely subsumed by capitalism. The human does not exist except through consumption.

Why does a single adult male with no children know how Kevin the sea cucumber behaves?

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, it seems to me that this is just our modern version of the "yellow journalism" that plagued the 20th century. Basically it's just a bunch of people who were just a fraction more intelligent than other people that latch on to one mode of thinking and use that thinking as a basis for everything they do. Since fabricating problems and reporting on things that don't matter are not that hard to do, they feel like they're good at something for once and have monetized it. It's a dying business model though, I'm slightly afraid of what the next step for this kind of thing is.

>business model
they're just scamming people with their adsense or whatever the modern equivalent is, it'll go away once the bottom drops off

/thread

New media is designed to cater to its audience because maintaining a loyal base is really the only way to survive in an overcrowded environment. Most people who are interested in easy-to-consume, pop culture-conscious internet news that's delivered in an irreverent tone are going to be young internet-savy liberals and progressives. The BuzzFeed audience has a much bigger presence online than the Breitbart audience, and thus has more clout with internet blogging firms who imitate the formula.

If you want attention from both viewers and sponsors, progressivism (which naturally supports capitalism) is the political ideology to support. You'll notice that old media vanguards like The New York Times and The Washington Post, despite historically having a bias to the left, are becoming increasingly blatant in their support for progressivism as they know that progressives are the vast majority of people who read and support them.

The existence of Vox et al will continue as long as there continues to be an audience to pander to.

What about anime that don't have power levels, like Legend of the Galactic Heroes?

Even without identity politics, (leftists) politics would still be shit.

it does have power levels

I guess I agree with this, but you make it sound very conspiratorial.

Communication is a two way street. The speaker wants to express himself, but also wants to be heard. They want readers, and so they have to know what readers want. This shouldn't be surprising.

What is surprising is when people create things for nobody. There was a John Oliver segment where he called out a local city council meeting, which was only attended by the two individuals conducting the meeting. They continued the charade of doing the pledge of alliegence, asking for comments from audience of zero, etc. Even the youtube video had zero views. I shitty bit of political theater that no one consumed.

because thats what the people like rn. journalisms dead.

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Perhaps he, like everyone else, is familiar with the content of the early Spongebob episodes, you underaged cum-gargling egg.

Nigger how new do you think spongebob is?

>like everyone else
kys

Saying that Reinhard and Yang are tactical geniuses doesn't equate with power levels.

>kys
>>>/YouTube/

it aired 15 yrs ago.

Fuck off newfag

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Late night talk shows are the exact same way.
>lets have EVERYONE spew the same left-wing rhetoric every single night FOREVER!

Did you know the first two Legend books are now out in English in a proper translation?

kys

Not sure if this you're metapostpostironic satirising or if it's an actual newfag

why are right-wingers always so easily-triggered?

>kys
>>>/YouTube/

kys

People get emotional about their beliefs. Not that you would understand that, seeing as you are, after all, a nihilist.

>kys
>>>/YouTube/

kys

>kys
>>>/YouTube/TVFilthyFrank

Sure they can people love click bait. They're tabloids

kys

>actually typing this instead of just using the copy pasta

Autism

its weird that only people who no absolutely nothing about anything remotely political say 'leftist'.

"real" or not, the industry will sustain itself as long as it appeals to the target demographic. Expect media sites to be the newspapers of the new generation

The problem is you're an infantile Marxist friend if you're still thinking simply in terms of profitability of corporations as being in anyway relevant under financial capitalism. Business in America is about capitalization upon reputation and other intangible assets not profit generation. The predatory methods they use to capture income is the concurrence of business strategy.

They have the same owners (different legal entities of course) and the articles seem the same because they literally are just slightly reworded.

its weird that only people who no absolutely nothing about anything remotely political are leftist

>“What if we like, made a new media website for millennials that had a left-wing bias??”

Well, you just answered your own question

>millennials
>left-wing

Younger people are overwhelmingly more left wing than older people

Besides, half the sites you mentioned are focused on clickbait, not left-wing politics. The only thing Gawker has ever cared about is getting people to click on their links

The only people who go into journalism are rich WASPs and Jews who don't need the money

fucken rekt

>ctrl+f
>no Cathedral
>no Nick
>no Land
>no Moldbug
>no dark enlightenment

thedarkenlightenment.com/the-dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/

shaking my head Veeky Forums and leaving this here so you can all get redpilled

Vox is fucking hilariously on the payroll. Every single thing they do is "Let's start the article with slacktivist snark, and then segue into 'vote democrats' to get the Tumblr retard audience!"

but isn't tumblr filled with kooky third-worldists and other nuts, I don't think most of them are the audience for democrats who want to attract professionals and bureaucrats in the technostructure

democrats want votes

you place your bernaysian technocrats AFTER you've been voted in by trillions of retards who think
>VAGINA
is a political platform

thanks

>get linked to Vox article about why the 2nd amendment is outdated
>it's cutsy blocky pseudo-pixel art with hollow arguments about how the world changed

The worst part isn't the viewpoints so much as how insidiously patronizing they are. It's one thing if you're right-wing looking at this stuff, but seeing what is basically the Nick Jr. editorial wing is painful when your actual views aren't that far off.

The mainstream left long had an image problem as being too soft and touchy-feely, in that regard none of this is new. It's hit a goddamn peak, though, so what the hell happened?