[flxmglrb]

The "big corps vs. the little guy consumers" notion is cute but I think the problem is more along the lines of very few advertisers wanting to be on a site with areas like /r/jailbait and /r/creepshots (or whatever took their place this week).

[batiudrami]

Oh, I think that's also a problem. I can't believe that, as a company, they put up with that for so long - I would have banned Jailbait from the start, especially once it started showing up on Google's front page results.

That being said, I'm sure there's a compromise. If Obama is prepared to associate himself with the website (and I would have said that was a fairly poor decision on the campaign's part, but it didn't end up being a problem), then I'm sure there are advertisers. A bigger problem I suspect, is that it draws an audience who simply do not click on ads.