Like The Fly Malcolm X: Buy Any Jeans Necessary

It's crazy how much we owe to the people who buy the stuff they see on internet ads. I literally cannot imagine seeing a big flashing sign for "Increase You're Companies Marketing Skills By A Hundred %% $$$$" and thinking "hmm, sounds like a good business proposition". Nor can I imagine anyone I know making that click. And yet a good chunk of people apparently do, and we have that select group of internet patrons to thank for Google and Youtube.

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As many of you reading this know (a... thousand? of you...), this fellow linked to me today.The graph of page views for this site is funny. It used to look like this:

One Dash = like 2 page views:
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Now it looks like this:
One Dash = like five trillion views.
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I wonder if there are meta-Nigerian scammers, sending mass emails to poor starving Nigerians who speak terrible English, offering to teach them everything they need to know to fleece rich Americans for a small, small, deposit fee of $500.

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