Originally Posted by the_marq

We had a similar conversation about Fark.com going corporate a few months back, where in there was quite a bit of bashing heaped upon fark for accepting paid links and not marking them as such.

IE: They would link to the same softcore pr0n site 3 days in a row. It was clear to most long time farkers that they were getting paid to advertise this site. There was even an article in Wired about the hubbub. In the end Drew Curtis claimed it was all due to "Gogi" (one of the Fark marketing guys) who had since been fired. In actual fact he wasn't.

But I digress.... the point is, all our favourite things that we loved when they were underground and just belong to "us" change over time. They grow up, we grow up, sunrise, sunset...yadda yadda yadda. The Onion stopped being EXTREMELY funny long before they sold out. So at the end of the day, I still read the headlines, but I find my humour elsewhere.