@phil That was some kind of incredible.

@phil I see what you did there. Enjoy that coffee!

@phil Excellent. Reminds me of one of the more surreal Beef & Dairy Network episodes!

@phil omg, brilliant

@phil you weren't wrong

@phil

BECOME

what?

@phil This had a real House of Leaves vibe to it.

@phil post of leaves

@phil

absolute artwork

my god, that's good

@phil excellent

@phil I had to give up at the cube burger 😂

@phil That gave me a really good laugh. Thanks, I needed that! 😂

@phil my browser needs a shower now

@phil

Most detailed Rickroll in history.

:da_salute:

@phil Oh that hurt my eyes and stressed the main points. Hard to keep going all the way to the end. It shows a nightmare of horror for monetizers using ad placement on blog posts.

@phil

I started to treat it like a game: How many times could I scroll from top to bottom to increase the counter?

I didn't quite make it to "rent an ALDI shopping cart" money, but I think I got close.

@phil "squozen"

@phil @clive, it reminded me of "House of Leaves" later, when the text starts taking funny shapes and all.

@phil aesthetically, this reminds me very much of reading Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium Is the Message" back in college. Thanks for sharing!

@phil amazing

@phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com It definitely served as a good advertisement for the font it kept using for "become"!

@phil house of leaves for the terminally online

@phil your lithium refill is ready at the pharmacy

@phil true art.

@phil RABBITS! ENJOY THIS HOLE

@phil @floe fascinating.

@phil thank you for the link, it was lightly mindblowing, like a Tristram Shandy for the modern internet

@phil "how about now?" 🤣

@phil somehow i made that guy 47 cents (if the tracker is real)

@phil “Radishes”

@phil Holy mackerel.

@phil I feel like this is processed world for 2024 (https://libcom.org/article/processed-world-magazine)

@phil I've put am order in for a bag of mind bending god radishes.

@phil Aww, now I want to play Timber Quest!

I was quiiiiite disappointed when I had to click it a bunch of times to realise it was a fake ad.

lol (at myself)

@phil I liked the bit when scrolling up quickly about the Sollicitudin porttitor.

@phil

except my adblocker blocks all the ads

@phil Truly incredible! Not just as a piece of satirical writing, but in the way it uses the web to play with visual form and structure.

I ignored this when I first saw it go by, assuming by its headline and presence on Hacker News--typically a hive of libertarian aspirational capitalism--that it was a genuine post on monetization strategies. Thanks for bringing it back to my attention!

@phil

Reminds me of a stunt I pulled in an all-hands at MP3•com in 1999, with the evil CEO there and everything. The execs wanted more and more monetization. I headed up the Web Design team and we were going to introduce the new homepage and site design and as a secret I instead showed this hideous homepage with the MP3•com logo and every imaginable banner ad and animated crap and more ads and more upsells--the whole homepage was crap. Whole company broke out laughing. CEO wasn't pleased 🤷‍♂️

@phil :yay:

@phil

I can’t stop laughing 😂

@erosdiscordia

@phil Is this the sequel to House of Leaves?

@phil just WOW!

@phil awesome indeed!

@phil Excellent. Just excellent.

@phil Lort, but that push notification made me laugh so hard I cried!

@phil
This is a piece of art.

@phil holy fuck that's incredible
It's the purest form of poetry in digital form

@phil Holy hand grenades. That's incredible. Now I can monetize Yugoslavian women are looking to marry you my blog, which consists of one page how to use AI TO MAKE BILLIONS and a picture right now!

@phil as a former writer/editor who quit in part due to the nature of "content" now, i cannot tell you how much i love this.

@phil lol my browser crashed 🤣

@phil Ha ha. I did stop reading the text quite early, but I absolutely stayed for the ads.

@phil I was put off by the AI art at first but it turns out in service of the message

@phil

Look, I just want to play Timber Quest okay? For ... reasons.

WHY WON'T IT LET ME PLAY TIMBER QUEST?

@phil I wanted to read, but gave up due to horrible contrast between text and background. It was just too difficult to parse.

@phil I would have clicked on a 'TimberQuest' ad in the wild in a heartbeat

@phil

I don't understand how browser based micropayments never became a thing.

Like, let me spend 1 cent to 10 cents for an article and change my incentives.

@phil @nyrath “The more filler text you can churn out, the more display space you can punch into a post for advertisements.” EVERY. SINGLE.THING that’s wrong with the internet today right there. In one sentence.

@phil Thats Art 😂

@phil @daviddlevine

Lol now I feel ill.

@phil this reminds me of old cracked articles online when they were funny . I miss SeanBaby

@phil Phenomenally clever and illustrative.

@phil A truly fascinating article, but what makes it unique is the attention to detail and the level of care throughout.

@phil Wow…that sure was something.

@phil the request for notifications constantly coming back was a glorious cherry on top.

@phil

did I laugh enough to sign up for push notifications? Ask me later.

@phil Very "Tristram Shandy-meets-SEO seminar" thing there.

I was extra impressed by the vortex of text that I couldn't even read.

@phil @molly0xfff It’s a masterpiece!

@phil Strongly recommend trying this on a desktop/laptop if you get a chance for the full(er) experience compared to mobile

@phil this one is also great 😂 https://modem.io/blog/scrollbars/

@phil @molly0xfff thanks, I’d been meaning to reread House of Leaves

@phil b̷̲̮͓̣̖̳̞̰̿͛̄̈͛͗̈̾̚͜͝ě̸̛̖̝̗̲͙̑c̷̢̡̨̡̗̰͔̪̖̹̼̯͉̙̎̽̆͛͑̓̀͜͠ơ̷̲̮̼̙̼̬͒̋̇̀̓̊͒͗̔̀̈́m̷̨̢̪̹̳̝͚̻̱͈̭̝̿̀̐̇̄̽͐̋̉̍̈̑̅̕ͅệ̵̖̬͓͚̗̊͂̋̏̉̀͑̋͘̕ͅ

@phil it’s an eldritch horror in blog post form

@phil Someone please tell me, where I can get these shrimp detectors?!!

@phil that is art.

@phil The contrast already set my expectations very low.

@phil It's not as fun when you use the reader mode of your browser but still a weird trip...

@phil
🕶️ :mastorofl:

@phil

You only need to read about 1/4 of the way through to "get it" ;-)

https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/

Also.. you might feel slightly more or less dirty about it, if you open the link in an incognito window... But I'm not here to kink shame anyone.

@phil Brilliant!

@phil Great Image

@phil this was addictive. I'm trying to earn them some cold hard cash. Got up to $10. Can we use the ad time to purchase goods?

@phil this was so funny. I saw this today when someone shared it at work and I thought they were actually trying to tell me how to monetize a blog, which if you knew me you would know it made my eyes roll all the way back in my head. Going into it with that mindset made it even more hilarious the more I read

@phil
I did, and you were right.

@phil This is so cursed.