i was going to do a mild effortpost by editing a quora page into a steamed hams joke but the site is both an asinine soup of html elements and ads that editing it instantly looked like too much work for the payoff, and i also remembered that looking at that site just chills my spine. there is something deeply wrong going on over there.
the thing that weirds me out the most is the listicles. about half the answers are written like listicles. a couple sentences, then a huge "hero" image pulled from a stock photo library. few sentences, huge hero image. you can't get more than a couple inches without a massive screen-filling totally irrelevant photo.
it is obvious that 99% of the content on that site - both answers and questions - is produced by people who are being paid to do it. the question is just what is the scam, how does it work.
what if a whole-ass website was a numbers station


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