Skip to content Try Ads-Free Fark It's Not News, It's Fark How To FarkLog In | Sign Up » Forgot password? Turn on javascript (or enable it for Fark) for a better user experience. If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page. Discussion Entertainment Clicks have tremendous power. Unfortunately, morons choose to use them on cat videos and AI slop (bbc.com) More: Dumbass, Internet, Marketing, Search engine optimization, Pew Research Center, Hyperlink, Hallucination, BBC, Web search engine 557 clicks;posted toMain »and STEM »on 29 Jul 2025 at6:35 PM(1 hour ago) | Favorite | Watch | share: Copy Link 33 Comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest (18) Funniest Internet was best when it was just usenet and geocities/angelfire web-rings. chitownmike (1) Funniest Other morons click the Fark links and come up with well reasoned analysis and reasonable comments Lumber Jack Off (14) Funniest Ghastly: Internet was best when it was just usenet and geocities/angelfire web-rings. [Fark user image image 200x267] The golden age was 1996 - 2003ish. Coincidentally 2003 was when "social media" started to become a thing. It's been downhill ever since. LordOfThePings (0) Funniest I mainly combine my love of BSG and SNL. I all about Lornehub. stevenvictx (6) Funniest This coming from a site that cat threads get more posts than trump hate. cowgirl toffee (1) Funniest (0) Funniest Lumber Jack Off: Ghastly: Internet was best when it was just usenet and geocities/angelfire web-rings. [Fark user image image 200x267] The golden age was 1996 - 2003ish. Coincidentally 2003 was when "social media" started to become a thing. It's been downhill ever since. The internet was best prior to late 1993. Eternal September was the beginning of the end. (0) Funniest ...I got excited about the link and said "suck my click!" a little too loud. People are staring. Guess I shouldn't Fark in the library Teddy Brosevelt (3) Funniest I didn't click the article (3) Funniest Unfortunately, morons choose to use them on cat videos and AI slop Right. They should be using those precious clicks on both cats and pinnipeds. (0) Funniest Pew, Pew, Pew Research Center Buy more merch Mrtraveler01 (5) Funniest stevenvictx: This coming from a site that cat threads get more posts than trump hate. Everyone loves cats. Not everyone loves Trump. The Irresponsible Captain (10) Funniest Time spent watching cat videos is never wasted. DarnoKonrad (1) Funniest Teddy Brosevelt: I didn't click the article Not a problem, a click farm did Billy Liar (0) Funniest English Beat - click click (1) Funniest Hey now, Google has feelings too... buravirgil (0) Funniest 34 minutes ago In 2018, I was nearly banned from MetaFilter for pushing back on how I preferred Google's auto-complete when it came to revealing Holocaust deniers while the prevelant opinion was Google should censor such feedback because it directed innocent users to misinformation. I argued I preferred knowing that Nazis were on the rise. This article cites Google's own "AI" agrees with its research, but an LLM can't suss truths, only statistical likelihood of collocation based on training that's an untested craft of inputs of unprecedented size, repetition, and divergence. (2) Funniest 33 minutes ago Which is why I don't use google. The problem is, most of the other search engines use google & bing https://www.searchenginemap.com/ Over the last year, Google made a tweak. I'm sure you've noticed by now. The first thing you see in search results is often an AI-generated response, instead of the list of blue links that topped Google for decades. (5) Funniest 32 minutes ago Lumber Jack Off: Ghastly: Internet was best when it was just usenet and geocities/angelfire web-rings. [Fark user image image 200x267] The golden age was 1996 - 2003ish. Coincidentally 2003 was when "social media" started to become a thing. It's been downhill ever since. Recommendation Algorithm = Social Cancer. That is all. Stud Gerbil (3) Funniest 33 minutes ago Teddy Brosevelt: I didn't click the article buravirgil (0) Funniest 34 minutes ago BecauseIt'sNotGoogle Since AltaVista, I've compared search engines. Google took the lead because it identified sponsored links. When Facebook invented the walled garden of information before Apple did so with apps, the only major change I saw was how Google's image search suffered and Bing increased its image results. MySpace laid the groundwork for the divides FaceBook multiplied and that a single owner model of capitalism allowed a rich pervert to convert billions earned from Farmville and leverage half of that to miscalculate the losses of Occulus has wasted America's lead in technology. How else could a S. African misfit gain a foothold? That will fail this nation even more. TrepanningForGold (0) Funniest 34 minutes ago p51d007: Which is why I don't use google. The problem is, most of the other search engines use google & bing https://www.searchenginemap.com/ Over the last year, Google made a tweak. I'm sure you've noticed by now. The first thing you see in search results is often an AI-generated response, instead of the list of blue links that topped Google for decades. [Fark user image 850x390] I wish Google still gave a numerical count of how many hits there are for a particular search. Back in 2021, I sent the following text and photo to my soccer friends, and it is to this day still described as the best use of data in the rich tradition of our soccer group. A sad aside, we lost our beloved "Uncle Leo", rest in peace dear friend. -------------------------------------- Since I have been calling Leo "Uncle Leo" for years because of the amusing character on the TV show Seinfeld, and recently began to call Joe "Uncle Joe" because of a character on the old TV show Petticoat Junction, I decided to see how popular various "Uncle %Name%" combinations were in Google. The results were humorous in most cases, and I have compiled them in a picture below. I included the general contents of the top website in the search as well. The vertical scale is logarithmic, with lines at 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, etc. corresponding to the number of hits on Google. I tried to include everyone I could think of from recent soccer games, but surely forgot some old-timers, regulars, etc. in my haste to send this fairly quickly. Let me know (don't reply to all, for God's sake) if I forgot you and I will update the graphic, but only once. No sense beating a dead horse, after all. Surprisingly (to me), Uncle Leo came in 12th with 232,000 hits, behind even "Uncle Jeff" (416,0000 hits), who apparently is the title character in an Arlo Guthrie song. "Uncle Joe" (2,670,000) came in first, because apparently Joseph Stalin was called uncle Joe. How sweet. "Uncle Sauro" came in last with just 131 hits, the main one of which seems to be a junk Instagram site with gibberish. Other notables include "Uncle Paul" (1,870,000) at #2 which was a popular kids show from 1960-1980, "Uncle Betty" (11,100), a diner in Toronto, and "Uncle Ariel" (29,100), a character in "Christmas Porno 4". I'm not sure why "Uncle Paulinho" (137, 2nd from last) did so poorly compared with "Uncle Paul". Must be anti-Portuguese bias. And if Marc Campbell ever writes a song, I sure as heck hope he calls it "Still Circlin' the Drain". Pointy Tail of Satan (2) Funniest 33 minutes ago You sound like a dog person. baron von doodle (3) Funniest 32 minutes ago Lumber Jack Off: Ghastly: Internet was best when it was just usenet and geocities/angelfire web-rings. [Fark user image image 200x267] The golden age was 1996 - 2003ish. Coincidentally 2003 was when "social media" started to become a thing. It's been downhill ever since. I would argue that it peaked in about 2006. The first iPhone came out the next year. (5) Funniest 32 minutes ago This is something I've been warning about for a LONG time now. Before AI Overview, my site was pulling in enough traffic to allow it to be profitable (it didn't because it got hit with Project Bernanke). Once AI Overview took hold, I saw a steady declines in web traffic ranging from 70%-80% compared to before Overview sucked the traffic clean out of the open web. Like every thoughtful, high quality, and well researched article I've published, it largely got ignored for being too high quality and non-partisan. A year later, some other major websites are noticing what I've been screaming into the void about for a very long time. The BBC appears to have only just notice this problem today. I've been largely surviving on Google traffic because it was one of the only places that didn't heavily censor or shadowban my work for not adhering to whatever narrative others are pushing. Now, I'm seeing my survival chances getting eviscerated by the one major place that didn't censor me to death. I'm left facing the situation where no place will take high quality fact-based journalism and wondering how the heck to even promote it at this point. This isn't even getting into the AI slop I have to compete against just for a chance to get a tiny morsel of attention. chitownmike (0) Funniest less than a minute ago tasteme: ...I got excited about the link and said "suck my click!" a little too loud. People are staring. Guess I shouldn't Fark in the library Could be worse, at least you aren't a mortician thisispete (1) Funniest 1 minute ago It's comforting to know that many people share my antipathy towards the current internet. I guess misery really does love company. I am sure many in this thread have seen the Technology Connections video on algorithmic complacency. But if you haven't, it is worth viewing. Algorithms are breaking how we think JustinCase (1) Funniest less than a minute ago IceCube85: This is something I've been warning about for a LONG time now. Before AI Overview, my site was pulling in enough traffic to allow it to be profitable (it didn't because it got hit with Project Bernanke). Once AI Overview took hold, I saw a steady declines in web traffic ranging from 70%-80% compared to before Overview sucked the traffic clean out of the open web. Like every thoughtful, high quality, and well researched article I've published, it largely got ignored for being too high quality and non-partisan. A year later, some other major websites are noticing what I've been screaming into the void about for a very long time. The BBC appears to have only just notice this problem today. I've been largely surviving on Google traffic because it was one of the only places that didn't heavily censor or shadowban my work for not adhering to whatever narrative others are pushing. Now, I'm seeing my survival chances getting eviscerated by the one major place that didn't censor me to death. I'm left facing the situation where no place will take high quality fact-based journalism and wondering how the heck to even promote it at this point. This isn't even getting into the AI slop I have to compete against just for a chance to get a tiny morsel of attention. I'm so very sorry to hear that. Really. ltdanman44 (1) Funniest always loved this animated logo frestcrallen (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Lumber Jack Off: Ghastly: Internet was best when it was just usenet and geocities/angelfire web-rings. [Fark user image image 200x267] The golden age was 1996 - 2003ish. Coincidentally 2003 was when "social media" started to become a thing. It's been downhill ever since. The 00s were great. I was even ok with things up until 2016, when the internet became the Trump-net. General Tariff (1) Funniest less than a minute ago To emphasize our stupidity, Funko Pop is a billion dollar a year industry. 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