virality
How Content Farms Exploit Uplifting Memes Like #DivorceSelfie
Personal problems can’t be solved by Googling anything and stumbling into strategically created content. Content farms preying upon the positive hopes of humanity would have you think otherwise.
The Content Farm That Farms Content About Content Farms
DIGIDAY is sort of like a huge advertisement to advertisers looking to advertise on a content farm that wants to advertise to people who ‘get’ that advertising doesn’t actually work.
The $100 Million Content Farm That's Killing the Internet
The dream of the highbrow internet is dead.
Trying to Ride Wild Animals Is the Latest Bullshit Trend on YouTube
Wrangling a manatee? You deserve to be arrested.
How the 'Food Babe' Grew the Most Controversial Content Farm of 2015
The Food Babe has the formula to be more scalable than ‘real science’ behind health/weight loss.
The Biggest Douche in Online Media
Emerson Spartz ‘takes pride’ in using data to ‘give people what they want’ [via stupid memes].
The 70s New Age Record That Went Viral on SoundCloud
Jordan De La Sierra's 'Gymnosphere' is nearly two hours of single-piano music.
Anger Is More Viral Than Joy
Ever notice that whenever some clown writes a truly abhorrent, asinine blog post, it ends up being the most-shared article in your Twitter or Facebook feed?
Anatomy of a No. 1 Post on Reddit
In terms of exposure, it is the modern, DIY, 20-35 demographic equivalent of getting a story on the front page of The New York Times. And it had taken me about 20 minutes to write. Which is why, throughout the day, my moods blew through both euphoric...