I don't mean to brag, but I was a very active Guide for a couple years and I am still in the top 10% even though I haven't posted a review in two years. My profile info shows that I have had hundreds of thousands of views.

They gave me a pair of Google Guide themed socks. They were cheap, poorly sized, and wore thin quickly.

After 1.1.2 came out and mine auto update, I turned off automatic updates, removed my home's SSID settings from the network settings, and turned it on airplane mode just to be sure.

All my gaming is local, anyway.

After a while, Five fully became whatever his old age is in the story. I stopped seeing a sixteen year old pretty quickly and that's what pulled me in.

It's so rare that I see anyone talk about Bacon Reader anywhere but that was the only app I liked. It was so minimal but still felt like it had everything I needed.

On the bright side, Reddit valuation has dropped from $10 billion to $5.5 billion in two years...so there's that.

I think this is the real thing. If online companies don't match the extremely ridiculous and luck they had during the pandemic then they are doing "worse" even if they are doing just fine.

All of them also seem to be focused more on short term gains over long term losses (i.e. meeting quarterly goals by raising rates but driving away otherwise good customers and completely disregarding the benefit of customer loyalty.).