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Originally Posted by widebody911
[...]OMG - these people who provide content need to get paid! Why do you think you deserve it free?. Yeah - no. In my experience, very little content is actually original. A huge percentage of websites simply slurp and regurgitate content from other sites to try and generate pageviews. Same thing on YouTube - any popular video is going to get copied to a zillion other "channels" by people hoping to ride the ad-serving gravy train.[...]
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Nailed it. See sites like Buzzfed, 9gag, I F***cking love science, live leak, best vines, etc.
They do not create anything original. Their sole purpose is to take 'good' content and place it on their sites, get the impression revenue.
A good explanation
here.