I've read in Tumblr's case it was a matter of illegal shit like CP being uploaded and not enough jannies and they decided a blanket porn ban was the only solution
You have to remember that tumblr was bought by Yahoo, a company run by fricking morons.
They paid $1 billion for that company and sold it for $3 million in 2019 after they banned porn.
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and the next step is twitter/X
Honestly, all the western social media/art sharing platforms are likely to go down this route, since American credit card and advertising companies are the arbiters of culture these days.
Soon the only somewhat major platform people will be using to post porn on will be fricking pixiv.
>Honestly, all the western social media/art sharing platforms are likely to go down this route, since American credit card and advertising companies are the arbiters of culture these days.
Part of the plan for X is to turn it into a financial platform. They've been acquiring licenses to do banking in various states and countries. If successful, Musk could potentially be free of the influence of Visa and Mastercard. That's not to say X won't have its own rules, but having competing systems means there's at least an incentive for X to beat Visa and Mastercard through a more lenient approach. To be more blunt, X could be the financial equivalent of VHS to Mastercard's Betamax.
>To be more blunt, X could be the financial equivalent of VHS to Mastercard's Betamax.
I think you got those two roles reversed, buddy.
It's such a shame how bad xitter has gotten, I'm flooded with bot dm's and mentions, timelines are confusing messes, even more so than before, and it just seems so much more dead. But I guess morons can cheer over the latest attention-prostitute stunt by musk trying to stay relevant.
I wonder if tumblr will ever make a comeback. It was a great source of porn, though the only flaw was that people would repost the smaller image, so if you wanted the original quality, you would have to goto the source artist.
As of now, twitters new layout for media is doing exactly tumblr did, but better.
From what I understand though, it wasn't like actual real shit, it was just drawn garbage. Only the Apple app store cared, though. Apple told them to clean it up or they wouldn't be allowed on the app store. So they nuked everything to stay on the app store, and then everyone left the website.
It's literally valued at under $8 bil compared to the $44 bil Elon bought it for, companies are pulling ads en masse because it's become a financial black hole for them - and that's not even mentioning the $1000 fee for shit companies used to be able to do for free on there as well as the desperate plea for users to sign up for Twitter Blue.
So it's safe to say it very much IS losing money.
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No, I used it more than I use SJW these days.
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Probably discord or some shit.
Is that seriously what you had to fall back on? homosexual, that's how you orderly quote different people in one post.
It's literally valued at under $8 bil compared to the $44 bil Elon bought it for, companies are pulling ads en masse because it's become a financial black hole for them - and that's not even mentioning the $1000 fee for shit companies used to be able to do for free on there as well as the desperate plea for users to sign up for Twitter Blue.
So it's safe to say it very much IS losing money.
When sites like this paywall they are no longer viable as free publications and need those fanboys to pay up to keep paying the journalists
So in reality this is a sign of this site failing
What would happen if someone created a site to contain all the poltiical crazies and porn addicts
5 months ago
Anonymous
>What would happen if someone created a site to contain all the poltiical crazies and porn addicts
One could probably argue that modern-day Twitter/Xitter/whateverthefrickyouwannacallit and post-2016 Cinemaphile actually fit that description perfectly
5 months ago
Anonymous
Honestly, the internet as a whole seems to be nothing but political crazies and porn addicts these days.
5 months ago
Anonymous
There’s that comic that gets reposted a lot about gatekeeping in fandoms and hobbies. But it applies to the Internet more than anything.
It was fine when it was just a bunch of nerds chatting on forums about things they like, kids playing Neopets, and teens laughing at edgy Newgrounds stuff/
But now everybody and everything is connected, and the fun is gone because instead of being an escape, it’s where all the drama actually is now.
Yeah, but almost all of the artists I followed (even the ones that didn't do NSFW) fricked off making the entire point of using it moot. The only reason I'm still there is a single niche blog I follow that has a lot of anon interaction.
In terms of porn, a lot of it is due to adverts. They’re the way the websites make money, but most don’t want their brands on the same page as outright porn. So crackdowns happen there, which then begins the slippery slope to force everyone to sign up, so then those details can be sold to advertisers for more money.
Even happens on here. The adult boards are still Cinemaphile, but blue boards are on Cinemaphile with a different pool of ads.
Is... is that a teenage girl with big breasts!? KILL THE SITE! KILL THE FORUMS! ERASE IT ALL! AIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
CBR died when they erased their old forums after the users rightly made fun of Janelle Asselin for whining about Cassie's boobs. This would just be putting the site out of its misery. Only person of worth they still had was Cronin but he's old and clearly not interested in shit anymore.
My theory is that the reason the forums got nuked is because it turned out some if not all the users harassing Asselin turned out to be alt accounts of comic creators
Otherwise it should've been easy to deal with troublemakers showing up on the forums
Nah, it was done for what they said. Site was probably already prepping to be sold and that happened at the same time as GamerGate so they probably figured that it was best to go full DFE so they didn't get fricked on the sale.
CBR was cool once, they had all those "comic book urban legends" articles and other interesting things, also I remember the weekly Q&A with Marvel Editor in Chief, that was great.
Aipt it's the new CBR, wonder what will happen with them once Marvel doesn't care about them anymore.
CBR died when they erased their old forums after the users rightly made fun of Janelle Asselin for whining about Cassie's boobs. This would just be putting the site out of its misery. Only person of worth they still had was Cronin but he's old and clearly not interested in shit anymore.
Web 1.5 where every topic had a website is outdated. Only Reddit and Discord matter now, and corpos love it because they can ban anyone they don't like. Web 3.0 (and I mean the real Web 3.0) will be a single website for everything, and it'll be locked down as frick.
Funny how things are, last week in a class we where studying the concept of the internet in the future and people where talking about that kind of stuff like it was a good thing.
Discord is also going to shit now as it’s getting bloated with constant pop-ups for a cosmetic store or ways to manage your server or whatever by paying for boosts or whatever.
The average person just uses it as a replacement for Skype, and they’ll just jump somewhere else when they got tired of Discord adding more loops to jump through.
>CBR nuked their forums >Newsarama's articles got purged into oblivion by the Gamesradar buy-out >Comicbookdb fricking died >Comicvine is basically abandoned by its staff, is the equivalent of a worn down house infested with rats (in this case powerlevelgays) >It's also the largest archive for comic info (mostly out of sheer age and comicbookdb's death) but its UI is incredibly bad and primitive compared to League of Comic Geeks
It's a general nerd entertainment culture website same as the rest of the slop. Just with no listicles and white people writing the dumb articles instead of pajeets.
what's really fricking annoying is when these types of articles pop-up in newsfeeds and you click on them expecting to be able to read em and the "gotta pay to read this" shit pops up
I've never seen that page OP. Maybe it's more of an anti bot measure than actually for humans?
Keep in mind that the people who want to frick up x or restrict ads on websites, ALSO have gone after Cinemaphile. Take a look at what's required to buy an ad or pass. Take a look at who's running the campaigns to put pressure on advertisers and financial companies.
Why do websites an hero? Tumblr did it. X is doing it. CBR is now doing it.
Money
I've read in Tumblr's case it was a matter of illegal shit like CP being uploaded and not enough jannies and they decided a blanket porn ban was the only solution
That's a bit moronic.
You have to remember that tumblr was bought by Yahoo, a company run by fricking morons.
They paid $1 billion for that company and sold it for $3 million in 2019 after they banned porn.
Honestly, all the western social media/art sharing platforms are likely to go down this route, since American credit card and advertising companies are the arbiters of culture these days.
Soon the only somewhat major platform people will be using to post porn on will be fricking pixiv.
>Soon the only somewhat major platform people will be using to post porn on will be fricking pixiv.
>He doesn't know
>Honestly, all the western social media/art sharing platforms are likely to go down this route, since American credit card and advertising companies are the arbiters of culture these days.
Part of the plan for X is to turn it into a financial platform. They've been acquiring licenses to do banking in various states and countries. If successful, Musk could potentially be free of the influence of Visa and Mastercard. That's not to say X won't have its own rules, but having competing systems means there's at least an incentive for X to beat Visa and Mastercard through a more lenient approach. To be more blunt, X could be the financial equivalent of VHS to Mastercard's Betamax.
>To be more blunt, X could be the financial equivalent of VHS to Mastercard's Betamax.
I think you got those two roles reversed, buddy.
It's such a shame how bad xitter has gotten, I'm flooded with bot dm's and mentions, timelines are confusing messes, even more so than before, and it just seems so much more dead. But I guess morons can cheer over the latest attention-prostitute stunt by musk trying to stay relevant.
Nah even pixiv is starting to crack down on nsfw content especially e-girl stuff
That's for financial purposes. Doesn't matter what Japan does, if the US banking system cuts you off, you're fricked.
Why don't people go to Nijie?
>since American credit card and advertising companies are the arbiters of culture these days.
which is weird considering how fricking much gets spent on porn and porn advertising
and the next step is twitter/X
No, they sold their website and now the new owner are left with worthless garbage
I wonder if tumblr will ever make a comeback. It was a great source of porn, though the only flaw was that people would repost the smaller image, so if you wanted the original quality, you would have to goto the source artist.
As of now, twitters new layout for media is doing exactly tumblr did, but better.
From what I understand though, it wasn't like actual real shit, it was just drawn garbage. Only the Apple app store cared, though. Apple told them to clean it up or they wouldn't be allowed on the app store. So they nuked everything to stay on the app store, and then everyone left the website.
The funny thing is chuds get mad when you bring up twitter is losing money and users at rapid pace.
Except that isn't happening lol
Pay attention to financial reports.
No, I used it more than I use SJW these days.
Probably discord or some shit.
>reddit spacing
Go back
Is that seriously what you had to fall back on? homosexual, that's how you orderly quote different people in one post.
It's literally valued at under $8 bil compared to the $44 bil Elon bought it for, companies are pulling ads en masse because it's become a financial black hole for them - and that's not even mentioning the $1000 fee for shit companies used to be able to do for free on there as well as the desperate plea for users to sign up for Twitter Blue.
So it's safe to say it very much IS losing money.
>chuds
You need to go back.
>and users at rapid pace.
Where are they going then?
Bluesy
Cohost
>BS
Dead in the water retirement home for bitter millennialcucks
>Cohost
Only viable replacement
Hillary lost, chuddies.
I'm not American and I don't care about Hillary you stupid mutt
Yeah, chud incels literally are going extinct. Their daddy Musky is proving to the world that the rich are not entitled to the wealth they horde.
When sites like this paywall they are no longer viable as free publications and need those fanboys to pay up to keep paying the journalists
So in reality this is a sign of this site failing
>X
I think you mean Twitter.
They want to monetize it. Too many websites divides the advertisment money.
So you either make users pay for it or try to boost your subscribers.
Porn ban unironically made tumblr pretty good again.
No really, most of the whiny political people fricked off over to Twitter and the whole site became a lot more chill as a result.
You gotta love the weirdly strange overlap between political crazies and porn addicts, it's so inexplicable
What would happen if someone created a site to contain all the poltiical crazies and porn addicts
>What would happen if someone created a site to contain all the poltiical crazies and porn addicts
One could probably argue that modern-day Twitter/Xitter/whateverthefrickyouwannacallit and post-2016 Cinemaphile actually fit that description perfectly
Honestly, the internet as a whole seems to be nothing but political crazies and porn addicts these days.
There’s that comic that gets reposted a lot about gatekeeping in fandoms and hobbies. But it applies to the Internet more than anything.
It was fine when it was just a bunch of nerds chatting on forums about things they like, kids playing Neopets, and teens laughing at edgy Newgrounds stuff/
But now everybody and everything is connected, and the fun is gone because instead of being an escape, it’s where all the drama actually is now.
Yeah, but almost all of the artists I followed (even the ones that didn't do NSFW) fricked off making the entire point of using it moot. The only reason I'm still there is a single niche blog I follow that has a lot of anon interaction.
Odd it was just working. I think they posted a dc lineup that might be fake listing young justice season 5 as part of it
In terms of porn, a lot of it is due to adverts. They’re the way the websites make money, but most don’t want their brands on the same page as outright porn. So crackdowns happen there, which then begins the slippery slope to force everyone to sign up, so then those details can be sold to advertisers for more money.
Even happens on here. The adult boards are still Cinemaphile, but blue boards are on Cinemaphile with a different pool of ads.
Money. But it's moronic and never works and it just brings more bots
Ad block
You killed the website
YouTube's next.
Different anon but:
If adblock will kill a website, I have no problem watching it or helping it die.
It's working fine for me.
It pops up after you click on 10 or so articles.
I just tested it.
>CBR
>Reading CBR
That was your first mistake
They killed CBR years ago. It’s been a slow death of thousands cuts.
This. They already started having problems when they let industry people like Slott and Wacker break the rules and attack fans on the forums
Then there was the idiocy of erasing the forum
But the beginning of the end was when CBR was sold to some clickbait farm in 2016
Remember what they took from you.
Is... is that a teenage girl with big breasts!? KILL THE SITE! KILL THE FORUMS! ERASE IT ALL! AIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
My theory is that the reason the forums got nuked is because it turned out some if not all the users harassing Asselin turned out to be alt accounts of comic creators
Otherwise it should've been easy to deal with troublemakers showing up on the forums
Nah, it was done for what they said. Site was probably already prepping to be sold and that happened at the same time as GamerGate so they probably figured that it was best to go full DFE so they didn't get fricked on the sale.
mfw I had a guy unironically tell me ''Don't you KNOW WHO I AM? I created MOSAIC''.
The forums are still there
https://community.cbr.com/
I'm talking about the wipe that happened in the mid-2010s
They killed their site when they sold to Valnet.
These are the death rattles.
I hope Anthony Gramuglia loses his Job
last time I visited that website was in 2011, it is a shame they stopped talking comicbooks to move to liveactionshit.
>Create an account to keep reading
How many racial slurs am I allowed to cram into a single username?
>everything will soon be locked behind an app, a paywall or an account
I learned to code and it's pure bliss, I can make whatever I want in Godot and shit
Cinemaphile celebration thread?
CBR was cool once, they had all those "comic book urban legends" articles and other interesting things, also I remember the weekly Q&A with Marvel Editor in Chief, that was great.
Aipt it's the new CBR, wonder what will happen with them once Marvel doesn't care about them anymore.
CBR died when they erased their old forums after the users rightly made fun of Janelle Asselin for whining about Cassie's boobs. This would just be putting the site out of its misery. Only person of worth they still had was Cronin but he's old and clearly not interested in shit anymore.
Haven't checked that site in years. The mainstream comic industry is a dumpster fire.
Honestly , 00s sites are dropping like flies and it's depressing
Is IGN planning on getting rid of it's forum?
Still got GameFAQs, which is shocking. It's incredible how it has had practically the same layout for 20 some years.
It got sold to Fandom so I'm fully expecting the end to come.
Fandom apparently sees the forums it owns as just some relic that doesn't really cost money to keep
But for how long, sad how a couple of the most influential forums fates are in the hand of a single corpo
Web 1.5 where every topic had a website is outdated. Only Reddit and Discord matter now, and corpos love it because they can ban anyone they don't like. Web 3.0 (and I mean the real Web 3.0) will be a single website for everything, and it'll be locked down as frick.
Now I'm sad.
Funny how things are, last week in a class we where studying the concept of the internet in the future and people where talking about that kind of stuff like it was a good thing.
Discord is also going to shit now as it’s getting bloated with constant pop-ups for a cosmetic store or ways to manage your server or whatever by paying for boosts or whatever.
The average person just uses it as a replacement for Skype, and they’ll just jump somewhere else when they got tired of Discord adding more loops to jump through.
>CBR nuked their forums
>Newsarama's articles got purged into oblivion by the Gamesradar buy-out
>Comicbookdb fricking died
>Comicvine is basically abandoned by its staff, is the equivalent of a worn down house infested with rats (in this case powerlevelgays)
>It's also the largest archive for comic info (mostly out of sheer age and comicbookdb's death) but its UI is incredibly bad and primitive compared to League of Comic Geeks
Very funny to think bleedingcool is somehow one of the last comic news sites surviving
Rich is a leech but he ain't doing pointless top 10 articles or captain obvious tier shit
It's a general nerd entertainment culture website same as the rest of the slop. Just with no listicles and white people writing the dumb articles instead of pajeets.
>Same as the rest
Look at least they make articles about new solicitations on time
what's really fricking annoying is when these types of articles pop-up in newsfeeds and you click on them expecting to be able to read em and the "gotta pay to read this" shit pops up
Is it paid subscription base or just gatekeeps lazy shits like Panda? Because if it's the former I'm all for it.
I've never seen that page OP. Maybe it's more of an anti bot measure than actually for humans?
Keep in mind that the people who want to frick up x or restrict ads on websites, ALSO have gone after Cinemaphile. Take a look at what's required to buy an ad or pass. Take a look at who's running the campaigns to put pressure on advertisers and financial companies.
>SIGN UP OR THE SITE WON'T WORK RIGHT
Okay, i guess the site won't work right then.
Why does this tactic work on anyone?