Originally Posted by FlexxAeon

people want to squarely blame tubes. there's validity there, but we speak of tubes as if they're some alien being or 'gov't plot'. in reality, tubes are the result of webmasters/companies that took the old adage of 'traffic is king' way too far. tubes came from within the industry. so did...

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