I always wanted to look up the history of online journals becoming monetized. How the website counter couldn’t be trusted and third-party code snippets were inserted into your html body to keep track. Banner campaigns and ads popped-up on your favourite writers’ feeds. When Google started Adsense it was a big deal and a lot of people got rich when the databases of most valuable meta-tags by ad dollar were available to everyone.
You would sit there in an afternoon searching which adwords yielded the most banner ad revenue then write mad-libs articles and video content about it. I assume that is what AI is doing now or at least that will close the loop and bring on prosumer singularity. It can also be used for political utility such as multinational colonization but that makes me tired just thinking about it.
I like writing as a meditative artform. I guess we strive for some sort of therapeutic release of catharsis from both production and consumption of media.
It’s honestly pretty fun too.
Creating is fun.