What a dumpster fire this internet of yours is 🙂
Poured myself some coffee. Decided to click on an ad link to some pop article, just to read and better understand the world.
To see how they fight for the attention of the internet audience nowadays. And how the media promotes itself.
Headline: “What happened to Maslyakov?!”. I click through, as always, via two redirects to Rambler (Hello, Matvey!). Finally found the article, Rambler “reprints” it from Dni.ru. Well, that’s another dump, but still, let’s take a closer look.
Autoplay video no longer surprises (it’s ads, of course). My speakers are at maximum. The AD DOESN’T TURN OFF. IT SHOUTS. Okay, I waited it out – turned it off.
Article gist: Rumors that Maslyakov is ill. Let’s check! Ask a psychic. She believes not! That’s it!
Below are 164000 likes in two days.
There’s also an accompanying video. Maslyakov on Urgant’s show. A year old. A minute clip. Of course, with an ad at the beginning, which cannot be skipped. Totally off-topic, just because it’s Maslyakov.
Dni.ru at least put this in the “Horoscopes” section, where normal people don’t go. On Rambler, it’s in the “show-business”. Normal people don’t go there either, but still, there’s a difference from horoscopes.
Well okay, Dni.ru can be understood. They created a Horoscopes category and sell links to psychics there. There’s a link, it leads to her site. But when this article gets to Rambler, they remove the link to the psychic (no domain in the text in both editions either), but they put a link to Ferrari, leading to the same page (banners! Banners! Video ads again!).
If you compare the texts, the original has corrected errors and typography. Rambler got, apparently, the first version. Apparently, Rambler grabs it as soon as it’s posted, and doesn’t edit further. But it does add links to Ferrari.
Sixty-six comments on Rambler.
Here’s what I think. Rambler was a decent place at one time. Then it turned into this kind of pornography. Why does none of the ordinary people working there ask themselves “what am I spending my life on” 🙂 And also, does this contribute to the dumbing down of the population? Could this be a genre of modern art? which, if banned, would bring millions of Rambler viewers and readers of such articles onto the streets?
I give the link, but don’t visit it too often
news.rambler.ru/starlife/37836915-maslyakov-gotovitsya-k-peremenam/?smi2=1
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