M thought/stop-using-fandom.html → thought/stop-using-fandom.html

@@ -16,29 +16,29 @@ my ad was for furniture - ah yes, just what i wanted.
 a multi-thousand-dollar furniture purchase to go with my
 video game bug lore.
 
-i have been experiencing fandom for 1 second
+i have been using fandom for 1 second
 
-  i already want it to end
+and i already want to leave
 
 ...
 
 as i scroll down, i'm assaulted by an auto-playing video
-ad for dog food. i do not have a dog.
+ad for dog food.
 
-actually, i should say adS.
+i do not have a dog.
 
 in the top-left corner of the video sits a little "1/2",
-indicating the presence of a second ad.
-
-and came it did. it's the dog food ad again.
+indicating the presence of a second ad. another dog food
+ad. actually, exactly the same dog food ad.
 
-this content is in the middle of the hollow knight fandom
-wiki. when i scroll down, the video shrinks into the
-bottom-right corner of my screen and stalks me.
+this "content" is in the middle of the hollow knight
+fandom wiki. when i scroll down, the video shrinks into
+the bottom-right corner of my screen and stalks me
+around the website, begging for attention.
 
 after the ads finish playing, a 60 minute video called
-"honest trailers" begins playing. this must be the
-content i was so anxiously awaiting.
+"honest trailers" starts. this must be the actual video
+that i've been sitting through ads to witness.
 
 "honest trailers" is not hollow knight related - it's two
 guys vaping & reviewing the new mario movie trailer.
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ 
 after about 5 seconds (no, i'm not kidding), another ad
 break occurs.
 
-it's the dog food ad AGAIN
+it's the same dog food ad. AGAIN.
 
 ...
 
-scrolling further, i reach the end of the wiki page,
+scrolling further down, i reach the end of the wiki page,
 and there are two banner ads waiting, as if to bid me
 farewell after my arduous journey through this shit-ass
 website.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ 
 - one 1/3 page footer ad for Ubisoft+
 - one 1/4 page sidebar ad for sunscreen
 
-i don't need sunscreen: i already want to die.
+i don't need sunscreen. i need fandomscreen.
 
         .
       \ | /
@@ -72,9 +72,6 @@ '     [0]
 
 
           some fandom history
-
-in 2004, jimmy wales (the wikipedia guy) founded
-fandom (it used to be called wikicities / wikia)
 
 from the very beginning, fandom was about profit:
   2004: jimmy founds wikicities
@@ -115,23 +112,23 @@ 
 at first, it was the ads. huge, annoying, irrelevant ads
 embedded directly in the content.
 
-obtrusive ads obviously sucks, but hey, adblockers are a
-thing, so we could just recommend that our users use a
-goo...
+obtrusive ads obviously suck, but hey, adblockers are a
+thing, so maybe ours users could j...
 
-!!THE MCDONALD'S GRIMACE SHAKE PROMOTION CONTROVERSY!!
+INTRODUCING:
+  THE MCDONALD'S GRIMACE SHAKE PROMOTION CONTROVERSY!
 
 in 2023, mcdonald's paid fandom an unknown[1] amount of
 money to temporarily replace the mcdonald's wiki main
-page + grimace article into advertisements promoting the
-GRIMACE SHAKE.
+page + grimace article with advertisements promoting the
+grimace shake.
+
+the grimace shake.
 
 i can't make this shit up.
 
 fandom set the precedent that companies could pay them
-to make user content go *poof*
-
-what could go wrong?
+and make user content go *poof*
 
 
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