[Cyclical]

I used to go to vice a lot for news, but over the past 2 years the article feed has been flooded with a huge quantity of low quality, low effort content. A significant amount of the stories are either affiliate link compilations (hottest new vibrators!) or horoscopes (which occasionally make up the entirety of the first ~10 elements in the "latest news" section).

[mc32]

They used to do actual reporting/journalism. They'd send people overseas and check out for themselves the facts on the ground. However, like everyone else they succumbed to low effort clickbait and rage-engineering.

[MonkeyMalarky]

The affiliate link content marketing spam is really sad. There are good journalists that work or worked in the past for them that have had real world impact, even if you don't like their irreverent gonzo style. It is a shame that their hard and sometimes dangerous work gets put up online beside such trash. In my country, I've seen a few names show up in other more mainstream publications but fun is gone and replaced with a standard bland removedness from the story.

[belltaco]

Ironically, that may have been an effort to raise revenue.

[SanjayMehta]

The death spiral effect for clickbait media.