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'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 (aftermath.site)
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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The free internet as we’ve known it for the last 20 years is collapsing as the ad market evaporates and corporate media ownership becomes increasingly unhinged in response. As belts tighten and profits dwindle across all media–not just video games–that rising tide could begin claiming more and more sites that even ten years ago would have seemed immortal.

Why is this happening? The post alludes to Google and Meta hogging all the ads somehow, but why would advertising on things resembling traditional media now be worthless? Everyone started using adblockers or is there something else too?

[–] Daggity@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

A lot of content available on the web now is getting scraped by search engines and ai, which provide summaries and results that don’t profit the website that wrote them.

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