LogFAQs > #980183769

STEROLIZER posted...

They are quarantining the boards where the core users reside, to try and curb the culture this place had cultivated, and make the rest of the boards a bit more vanilla

which is needed if they want to put money into any type of user aquisition campaign.

If the end of the funnel of a paid ad campaign is dropping off a newly acquired user onto a board where a bunch of 40 year olds are discussing the attractiveness of cartoon characters then that user isnt going to stick around, theyre going to dip out.

There is no logic in allocating funds to modernizing the site or acquiring new users if youre just going to drop that user off in the basement of a magic the gathering party, or in the midst of a political thrashing.

They need to make the boards more generic and vanilla so that these users can stick around without being chewed up and spit out by the board regulars.

Imagine thinking 13-28 year olds don't like discussing the attractiveness of fictional and cartoon characters let alone not realizing that's the peak age for a person to discuss them nor thinking they wouldn't want to discuss politics in an era where it greatly affects them. Yeah, the biggest sites with a zoomer userbase like Tiktok, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, Youtube, even 4chan are known for not having hornyposting and politics /s. It's hilarious how out of touch you are while thinking you want to gain a younger userbase as it's perfectly onbrand with out of touch corporate executives.
Honestly the worst part of Fandom's moves is deluding you suspension subreddit dwellers into thinking you had a point.