Declining Content Quality

You're assuming people will create content to consume it, and not just to spam various platforms, competing for attention. Most of it might only be ever consumed by crawlers, if at all.

"We don't value people who add content, they simply create more work for us, just give us advertiser metrics as passive consumers."

yeah, this is sad and it applies to most platforms who offer user generated content for money (or ad impressions). Not only is the quality decreasing, also it hides actual content from writers that care and put work into their articles.entshitification at its best...

To maximize revenue you need to maximize the number of ads people see. To maximize the number of ads people see, you maximize the amount of time people spend on the platform. To maximize the time people spend on the platform you need highly engaging content. The cheapest form of highly engaging content is mostly composted of clickbaits, polarizing news, disinformation, conspiracy theories, etc. And when people spend most of their time with this kind of content, they tend to lose the ability to e

Kind of puts the 'make better content and people will pay for it' argument to bed.

They stir the pot because people consume their content like it's going out of style. It will only get worse. Don't give them the eyballs, clicks, views or anything else they can measure and generate revenue from.Everyone of us have more important things to do in life.

They're in the business of encouraging users to post content to get more eyeballs and therefore more ad revenue. So commoditising a way of generating a lot more content is in their interests.

I'd probably be OK if all the content which doesn't get made without sponsorship wouldn't get made at all, and the people who work as content creators stopped doing so. There is an overabundance of new content, having 10x less content would be perfectly fine, and in pretty much every niche there are amateur enthusiasts who clearly (based on their amount of viewers) are giving their time away, and their content is in many ways preferable and "more real" than the professio

The people who have bad content are the ones to get money, while those who have good content are not. Logical result is that people with good content stop producing that content while the people with bad content continue producing it and being rewarded for it.

Because it’s easy to monetize crap. So no one takes the time to reproduce valuable content.