oh god how did this get here i am not good with computer

 


 

Background music:
Click here because I can't put an audio widget in the profile

 

The scenes with the shark are usually very intense and disturbing.

 

I use Arch BTW

 

Fun fact: Neo-Nazi dipshit cartoonist Stonetoss is in fact Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, Texas


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

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.


amydentata
@amydentata

what if a whole-ass website was a numbers station


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

i made a quora account, once, and its ghost still haunts the email i no longer use for much. on the odd day i decide to go to a search result of quora - despite knowing full well that quora is the point where the hope of finding a particularly helpful or meaningful answer shrivels and dies - i am occasionally jumpscared with "Zach (fake name i used a lot in middle school), there's more to read in your feed." and i am snapped from my daze, realizing where i've been. why does quora have a 'feed' when it is already 'feed'ing me endless piles of garbage