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It worked for SomethingAwful.com before Reddit and 4Chan launched, and now SA is essentially dead. Why do you think that is?

SA's pretty good these days. I think it's working great.

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SA isn't trying to repay tens of billions of dollars of loans and hugely damaged the income stream it had with billions of dollars a year of advertising.

making people pay for niche random internet corners is of course a fine business model, but it doesn't make billions of dollars a year or satisfy someone with the ego of elon musk.

SomethingAwful is a profitable business which is more that can be said for Twitter dot com

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