[johnnyanmac]

>we must not discount how many things that would have been easily parseable blogs are now buried in livestreams and videos

on the flip side, would those blogs have been created at all if they weren't financially motivated by streaming/video to provide the content?

there's a lot of discussion here about internet commuities, but this comment brings to question why blogs started to die down to begin with. At least with reddit you get clout if you share stuff (useless clout, but sometimes you just want a pat on the back).