Once again my man Vjo kicks it with Super Sensical Posts. Hey-OOOOO!
The "old-timers", I love it! My assumption is this - and Robbie could confirm/deny but he's out rocking the house to "Fire Woman" at the moment.
1. Most people who made a shitcan of moolah in the "good old days" got out/diversified into "mainstream", investments, real estate, all of the above. What would YOU do if you made, say, 4.2 million profit between, say, 2001-2003? Exactly.
2. Spread out their reach so that their empires were, more or less, "self-sustaining" (to a point). So they now work less because the weight of their "reach" (which may include literally hundreds or even thousands of websites) allows them to. They have their own "mini-web" of stickiness that keeps them rolling in dough.
3. They flamed out on drugs/booze/BiPolar Disorder, whatever,and are now struggling to climb their way back to "the top".
4. They retired, died, got married, moved to an island, who knows.
But those who are left and posting here on GFY, I would imagine, fall into category #2, like Shap or Roald (to name a couple examples). Man, i was jackin' it to their shit ten years ago!! Props to both.
So times change, new blood comes in, fucks everything up yet keeps things lively, and so on.
Carry on wayward sons.
Peace out.