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[owlectomy]

I have reached the end of my tolerance with every silly web meme getting a book deal.

I mean, it's possible to be brilliant on your blog/twitter/other social media and translate that into a great book (cf. Hyperbole and a Half.) But it seems far more frequent that it's the kind of thing that's everywhere for two weeks and then goes away, and there's not enough there there for there to be any point in making it into a book. (Especially a book that's going to come out 18 months after the thing was popular in the first place.)

It looks to me like a bubble on the verge of collapse, like all the silly web companies that started up during the bubble of the late-90s.

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[meaghansketch]

Like trying to make money extracting the sunlight from cucumbers

[brigid]

I'm bothered by people making money off of the creative efforts of others, like "cakewrecks" and "awkward family photos". Because they don't own the rights to the photos they're using. They CAN'T, too many of them are submitted anonymously. But they're profiting off of them anyway.