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* WMET-FM was an album-rock powerhouse in the early 1980's, competing with WLUP-FM for the top spot in the AOR market. Then suddenly in January 1985, they abruptly switched to an adult contemporary format at a time when the market was already getting oversaturated with AC stations. Predictably, WMET's rating fell like a lead balloon and would not recover until it became "smooth jazz" WNUA a few years later.
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* WMET-FM (95.5) was an album-rock powerhouse in the early 1980's, competing with WLUP-FM for the top spot in the AOR market. Then suddenly in January 1985, they abruptly switched to an adult contemporary format at a time when the market was already getting oversaturated with AC stations. Predictably, WMET's rating fell like a lead balloon and would not recover until it became "smooth jazz" WNUA a few years later.later.
** In 2009, the station switched to Spanish, and in 2015 it changed its callsign to WEBG after switching to country music. In 2020, the station (now renamed WCHI) returned to its old mainstream rock format, this time with a focus on the 80s to 2000s, with country music moving to a subchannel.
** In 2009, the station switched to Spanish, and in 2015 it changed its callsign to WEBG after switching to country music. In 2020, the station (now renamed WCHI) returned to its old mainstream rock format, this time with a focus on the 80s to 2000s, with country music moving to a subchannel.
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* The WCBS-FM affair in New York. For over 30 years, 101.1 CBS-FM was an iconic oldies station, its [=DJs=] being local celebrities. Enter ExecutiveMeddling, and in 2005 the station was converted to the Jack FM format, which generally focuses on the '80s-2000s and punctuates its programming with snarky comments by announcer Howard Cogen. To add insult to injury, the former CBS-FM [=DJs=] were fired on the day of the flip, without warning. The new station was universally reviled by New Yorkers, with many calling it "Jack Shit FM", and mayor Mike Bloomberg saying he would "[[PrecisionFStrike never listen to that fucking CBS radio again]]." It took two years for them to get the message, and in 2007, CBS-FM returned to an oldies format. Now, the only decay present at the station is that it's starting to play '80s and '90s music in lieu of '50s and '60s music, but that's true for oldies stations everywhere.
* 92.3 K-Rock in New York went through decay ''twice''. First, at the start of 2006, the station switched from its modern rock format (which it had run since TheEighties) to a talk format, with the new name Free FM. This left the largest radio market in the country without a modern rock station. Free FM, anchored by [[Music/VanHalen David Lee Roth's]] morning show, was a disaster, and K-Rock was brought back on the air in less than 18 months, with [[Radio/OpieAndAnthony Opie & Anthony]] replacing Roth as morning hosts. So far so good, right? Well, in March 2009, the station switched ''again'', this time without warning (Free FM had been announced a month prior to the switch), to "Now FM", a pop station in the vein of Z-100. At least this time, New York had a modern rock station to pick up the slack, 101.9 WRXP... which itself switched from a jazz format in February 2008, leaving jazz fans with only Cerator/{{NPR}} and a single AM radio station to listen to.
* 92.3 K-Rock in New York went through decay ''twice''. First, at the start of 2006, the station switched from its modern rock format (which it had run since TheEighties) to a talk format, with the new name Free FM. This left the largest radio market in the country without a modern rock station. Free FM, anchored by [[Music/VanHalen David Lee Roth's]] morning show, was a disaster, and K-Rock was brought back on the air in less than 18 months, with [[Radio/OpieAndAnthony Opie & Anthony]] replacing Roth as morning hosts. So far so good, right? Well, in March 2009, the station switched ''again'', this time without warning (Free FM had been announced a month prior to the switch), to "Now FM", a pop station in the vein of Z-100. At least this time, New York had a modern rock station to pick up the slack, 101.9 WRXP... which itself switched from a jazz format in February 2008, leaving jazz fans with only Cerator/{{NPR}} and a single AM radio station to listen to.
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* The WCBS-FM affair in New York. For over 30 years, 101.1 CBS-FM was an iconic oldies station, its [=DJs=] being local celebrities. Enter ExecutiveMeddling, and in 2005 the station was converted to the Jack FM format, which generally focuses on the '80s-2000s and punctuates its programming with snarky comments by announcer Howard Cogen. To add insult to injury, the former CBS-FM [=DJs=] were fired on the day of the flip, without warning. The new station was universally reviled by New Yorkers, with many calling it "Jack Shit FM", and mayor Mike Michael Bloomberg saying he would "[[PrecisionFStrike never listen to that fucking CBS radio again]]." It took two years for them to get the message, and in 2007, CBS-FM returned to an oldies format. Now, the only decay present at the station is that it's starting to play '80s and '90s music in lieu of '50s and '60s music, from the '70s to '90s, but that's true for oldies stations everywhere.
* 92.3 K-Rock in New York went through decay ''twice''. First, at the start of 2006, the station switched from its modern rock format (which it had run since TheEighties) to a talk format, with the new name Free FM. This left the largest radio market in the country without a modern rock station. Free FM, anchored by [[Music/VanHalen David Lee Roth's]] morning show, was a disaster, and K-Rock was brought back on the air in less than 18 months, with [[Radio/OpieAndAnthony Opie & Anthony]] replacing Roth as morning hosts. So far so good, right? Well, in March 2009, the station switched ''again'', this time without warning (Free FM had been announced a month prior to the switch), to "Now FM", a pop station in the vein of Z-100. At least this time, New York had a modern rock station to pick up the slack, 101.9 WRXP... which itself switched from a jazz format in February 2008, leaving jazz fans with onlyCerator/{{NPR}} Creator/{{NPR}} and a single AM radio station to listen to.
* 92.3 K-Rock in New York went through decay ''twice''. First, at the start of 2006, the station switched from its modern rock format (which it had run since TheEighties) to a talk format, with the new name Free FM. This left the largest radio market in the country without a modern rock station. Free FM, anchored by [[Music/VanHalen David Lee Roth's]] morning show, was a disaster, and K-Rock was brought back on the air in less than 18 months, with [[Radio/OpieAndAnthony Opie & Anthony]] replacing Roth as morning hosts. So far so good, right? Well, in March 2009, the station switched ''again'', this time without warning (Free FM had been announced a month prior to the switch), to "Now FM", a pop station in the vein of Z-100. At least this time, New York had a modern rock station to pick up the slack, 101.9 WRXP... which itself switched from a jazz format in February 2008, leaving jazz fans with only
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** However, Alt 92.3's ratings continued to disappoint; [[https://www.fybush.com/nerw-20211220/ word eventually leaked out]] (via the now-fired morning hosts' podcast; one of the reasons they were fired was because of said podcast) that management at Audacy (the new name for Entercom) was holding a threat over the station's head, that being flipping it to a simulcast of WINS (see below). It took almost a year, but said threat proved correct, as Audacy announced [[https://www.insideradio.com/free/audacy-sacrifices-new-york-s-alt-92-3-to-simulcast-wins-on-fm/article_51160074-48c9-11ed-a3b4-af2ceb51ecf6.html the format flip would occur on October 27, 2022]] (simultaneously announcing that the staffs and newsrooms of WINS and WCBS-AM would be combined); [[https://youtu.be/ErPr2O7dMUE this resulted in a tearful announcement by a DJ on the air.]] However, Alt 92.3 won't be totally gone, as it'll move to an HD Radio subchannel.
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** However, Alt 92.3's ratings continued to disappoint; [[https://www.fybush.com/nerw-20211220/ word eventually leaked out]] (via the now-fired morning hosts' podcast; one of the reasons they were fired was because of said podcast) that management at Audacy (the new name for Entercom) was holding a threat over the station's head, that being flipping it to a simulcast of WINS (see below). It took almost a year, but said threat proved correct, as Audacy announced [[https://www.insideradio.com/free/audacy-sacrifices-new-york-s-alt-92-3-to-simulcast-wins-on-fm/article_51160074-48c9-11ed-a3b4-af2ceb51ecf6.html the format flip would occur on October 27, 2022]] (simultaneously announcing that the staffs and newsrooms of WINS and WCBS-AM would be combined); [[https://youtu.be/ErPr2O7dMUE this resulted in a tearful announcement by a DJ on the air.]] However, Alt 92.3 won't be totally gone, as it'll move moved to an HD Radio subchannel.
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* Walk 97.5, a station that claims to play music from "The 90's, 2K and today", sometimes plays 80's music. They rarely play two or more songs from the 80's in a row [[note]]usually opting to do this for a special event, like their 80's music marathon that played on Memorial Day from the early 2000's until 2010, as well as the former Backtrax USA block[[/note]], but some 80's songs will be played in frequent rotation, with the most common ones being Corey Hart's "Sunglasses At Night" and Poison's "Every Rose".
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** MIX 103.7 was a "soft and contemporary" radio station in the early-mid 2000s that playing music from the "80s, 90s, and today" that had a playlist ranging from Nickelback to Alanis Morissette to The Fray to Jewel to Peter Gabriel (basically songs that charted on Billboard's Adult Contemporary). It didn't have a huge playlist, but it's biggest claim to fame was playing 50 minutes of music with no commercials and no [=DJs=]. This ended in 2010, when the station became 103.7 The River, an alternative station with [=DJs=], more commercials, and played music from 3 Doors Down, Linkin Park, 3 Days Grace, Shinedown, Green Day, Fallout Boy, Avril Lavigne, and was very popular with Richmond listeners. Around 2013, it started sneaking in music from non-alternative artists like Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Carly Rae Jepson, etc. before suddenly rebranding itself to 103.7 PLAY in 2014, and became just another Top 100 station, to much ''much'' outcry from it's listeners.
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** MIX 103.7 was a "soft and contemporary" radio station in the early-mid 2000s that playing music from the "80s, 90s, and today" that had a playlist ranging from Nickelback to Alanis Morissette to The Fray to Jewel to Peter Gabriel (basically songs that charted on Billboard's Adult Contemporary). It didn't have a huge playlist, but it's its biggest claim to fame was playing 50 minutes of music with no commercials and no [=DJs=]. This ended in 2010, when the station became 103.7 The River, an alternative station with [=DJs=], more commercials, and played music from 3 Doors Down, Linkin Park, 3 Three Days Grace, Shinedown, Green Day, Fallout Fall Out Boy, Avril Lavigne, and was very popular with Richmond listeners. Around 2013, it started sneaking in music from non-alternative artists like Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Carly Rae Jepson, Jepsen, etc. before suddenly rebranding itself to 103.7 PLAY in 2014, and became just another Top 100 station, to much ''much'' outcry from it's its listeners.
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* WHFS, a long-running alternative-rock station owned by CBS/Infinity, suffered a very similar fate to co-owned K-Rock in New York. In January of 2005, WHFS' 99.1 slot changed to a Spanish-language station known as "El Zol". The call letters, meanwhile, migrated over to 105.7, which was at the time a talk radio station with a very similar format to New York's Free FM; to play on those call letters, they began broadcasting alternative rock on nights and weekends. Eventually, that too was dropped, and 105.7 switched to a sports talk format. It still exists on the HD Radio subchannel of the Washington iteration of "Fresh FM", but by far very few people own an HD Radio, and the famous [=HFStival=] is now just another concert with the has-beens of the '90s playing turn of the millennium rock music which has been run into the ground by dull and unadventurous adult contemporary stations.
** WHFS has returned as of August 2011 on 97.5 in Baltimore on a translator with only city-wide range.
** WHFS has returned as of August 2011 on 97.5 in Baltimore on a translator with only city-wide range.
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* WHFS, a long-running alternative-rock station owned by CBS/Infinity, suffered a very similar fate to co-owned K-Rock in New York. In January of 2005, WHFS' 99.1 slot changed to a Spanish-language station known as "El Zol". The call letters, meanwhile, migrated over to 105.7, which was at the time a talk radio station with a very similar format to New York's Free FM; to play on those call letters, they began broadcasting alternative rock on nights and weekends. Eventually, that too was dropped, and 105.7 switched to a sports talk format. It still exists on As of 2021, the HD Radio subchannel of radio station moved exclusively to the Washington iteration of "Fresh FM", but by far very few people own an HD Radio, and the famous [=HFStival=] is now just another concert with the has-beens of the '90s playing turn of the millennium rock music which has been run into the ground by dull and unadventurous adult contemporary stations.
** WHFS has returned as of August 2011 on 97.5 in Baltimore on a translator with only city-wide range.
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** WHFS has returned as of August 2011 on 97.5 in Baltimore on a translator with only city-wide range.
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* XM had a hard rock/metal-oriented station called "The Boneyard" which played all kinds of hard rock and metal, new and old. It wouldnt be that odd to hear, for example, Music/YngwieMalmsteen followed by Bon Jovi. Once the XM/Sirius merger happened though, the Boneyard basically became a Classic Hard Rock station (lots of Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/{{Rush|Band}}) with some harder metal (Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/JudasPriest) thrown in. Meanwhile all the hair metal acts got moved over to Hair Nation. However, both stations mainly stick with the past (Boneyard will occasionally play a newer track by hard rock acts, but Hair Nation is for all intents and purposes a retro station).
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* XM had a hard rock/metal-oriented station called "The Boneyard" which played all kinds of hard rock and metal, new and old. It wouldnt wouldn't be that odd to hear, for example, Music/YngwieMalmsteen followed by Bon Jovi. Once the XM/Sirius Sirius XM merger happened though, happened, the Boneyard basically became a Classic Hard Rock station (lots of Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/{{Rush|Band}}) with some harder metal (Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/JudasPriest) thrown in. Meanwhile all the hair metal acts got moved over to Hair Nation. However, both stations mainly stick with the past (Boneyard will occasionally play a newer track by hard rock acts, but Hair Nation is for all intents and purposes a retro station).
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* During the holiday season of 2020, the 60s on 6 station on Sirius XM played Music/{{Wham}}'s "Last Christmas", which is a song from the 80's. And if that wasn't strange enough, it was the 1998 re-master.
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* During the holiday season of 2020, the 60s on 6 station on Sirius XM played Music/{{Wham}}'s "Last Christmas", which is a song from the 80's. And if that wasn't strange enough, it was the 1998 re-master.
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** Snow's former station, 99.1 FM, has had decay of its own. It started out as a country station before becoming 99.1 Hits FM in 2002, and when station owner Newcap Radio was acquired by Canadian radio conglomerate Stingray, they got rid of their signature call-in shows that had been a staple since the start and play a lot more syndicated programming than usual (their weekends used to be filled almost solely with syndicated countdown programs, but there were still live DJs in the early morning. In 2021, [[FromBadToWorse much to the dismay of longtime listeners]], they changed their branding to the [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks generic Hot FM branding that belongs to all of Stingray's other top 40 stations]]. They are even competing with OZ FM by playing 90s and 2000s songs, but there's nothing that can't already be found on other stations (they play very little Canadian throwbacks, unlike OZ FM).
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** Snow's former station, 99.1 FM, has had decay of its own. It started out as a country station before becoming 99.1 Hits FM in 2002, and when station owner Newcap Radio was acquired by Canadian radio conglomerate Stingray, they got rid of their signature call-in shows that had been a staple since the start and play a lot more syndicated programming than usual (their weekends used to be filled almost solely with syndicated countdown programs, but there were still live DJs [=DJs=] in the early morning. In 2021, [[FromBadToWorse much to the dismay of longtime listeners]], they changed their branding to the [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks generic Hot FM branding that belongs to all of Stingray's other top 40 stations]]. They are even competing with OZ FM by playing 90s and 2000s songs, but there's nothing that can't already be found on other stations (they play very little Canadian throwbacks, unlike OZ FM).
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* In TheNineties, Las Vegas rolled out a variety of casino resorts with theme park-esque decor and attractions in a MisaimedMarketing effort to attract family vacationers. When the concept of "Vegas for families" proved a bust, they were progressively dethemed into relatively generic resorts.
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* In TheNineties, Las Vegas rolled out a variety of casino resorts with theme park-esque decor and attractions in a MisaimedMarketing an effort to attract family vacationers. When the concept of "Vegas for families" proved a bust, they were progressively dethemed into relatively generic resorts.
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* The adult standards format, popular in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, featured a mixture of traditional pop, easy listening vocals, big band music, softer adult contemporary and oldies tunes, and even hymns. The audience for this format primarily consisted of senior citizens who, over time, either die or cease to be attractive to advertisers, and, as a result, many stations broadcasting in that format have switched to other formats, such as oldies, classic hits, or modern-centric adult contemporary music.
** In an odd example, KTUC in Tucson, Arizona (the city's oldest continuously broadcasting radio station) had flipped from talk radio to adult standards in 1998, keeping that format intact for 25 years before it was phased out in favor of conservative talk in 2023. In its later years, most pre-1970 oldies began appearing in the station's rotation.
** In an odd example, KTUC in Tucson, Arizona (the city's oldest continuously broadcasting radio station) had flipped from talk radio to adult standards in 1998, keeping that format intact for 25 years before it was phased out in favor of conservative talk in 2023. In its later years, most pre-1970 oldies began appearing in the station's rotation.
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*** Speaking of Radio Disney, they ''too'' suffered network decay. When they launched in 1996, they catered to kids of all ages and the kid-at-heart, with a short-lived night slot that played oldies with a mix of kids' music and lullabies right up to morning, and an afternoon preschool block. In other words, Radio Disney used to reflect the message of Disney in general. They later shifted to only playing music of interest [[GirlsShowGhetto to tweens and teens]]. Even in the early 2000s, when Disney pop stars began to emerge, their countdowns were often filled with songs that were [[TwoDecadesBehind already several years old]], such as "[[Music/SmashMouth All Star]]," which was released in 1999 being on a 2006 chart or "[[Music/AvrilLavigne [=Sk8er=] Boi]]," which was released in 2002 being on a 2007 chart.
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*** Speaking of Radio Disney, they ''too'' suffered network decay. When they launched in 1996, they catered to kids of all ages and the kid-at-heart, with a short-lived night slot that played oldies with a mix of kids' music and lullabies right up to morning, and an afternoon preschool block. In other words, Radio Disney used to reflect the message of Disney in general. They later shifted to only playing music of interest [[GirlsShowGhetto to tweens and teens]]. Even in the early 2000s, when Disney pop stars began to emerge, their countdowns were often filled with songs that were [[TwoDecadesBehind already several years old]], such as "[[Music/SmashMouth All Star]]," which was released in a 1999 being single that appeared on a 2006 chart or "[[Music/AvrilLavigne [=Sk8er=] Boi]]," which was released in a 2002 being single that was seen on a 2007 chart.
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Nowadays most of Netflix's old catalog are exclusive to [[FollowTheLeader newer competing streaming sites]], and the the [=DVD=] rentals service has been shuttered (The [=DVD=] rentals were spun off to their own website, aptly titled [=DVD.com=], before Netflix ended the service in September 2023). However, as long as the site provides movies and TV shows through the internet, Netflix will always stay true to its name.
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Nowadays most of Netflix's old catalog are exclusive to [[FollowTheLeader newer competing streaming sites]], and the the [=DVD=] rentals service has been shuttered (The [=DVD=] rentals were spun off to their own website, aptly titled [=DVD.com=], before Netflix ended the service in September 2023). However, as long as the site provides movies and TV shows through the internet, Netflix will always stay true to its name.
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Nowadays most of Netflix's old catalog are exclusive to [[FollowTheLeader newer competing streaming sites]], and the [=DVD=] rentals have been spun off to their own website, aptly titled [=DVD.com=]. However, as long as the site provides movies and TV shows through the internet, Netflix will always stay true to its name.
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Nowadays most of Netflix's old catalog are exclusive to [[FollowTheLeader newer competing streaming sites]], and the the [=DVD=] rentals have service has been shuttered (The [=DVD=] rentals were spun off to their own website, aptly titled [=DVD.com=].com=], before Netflix ended the service in September 2023). However, as long as the site provides movies and TV shows through the internet, Netflix will always stay true to its name.
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* Website/MySpace resorted to a {{Retool}} in Fall 2010 due to fewer and fewer people using the site, having lost most of them to Platform/{{Facebook}}. The new CEO proclaimed that [=MySpace=] is no longer a social network, but "Social Entertainment", revamping itself into an entertainment site and alienating the few people who still used the site. This included a new logo, new homepage and a new profile layout. They were about to force everyone to upgrade their profiles to the new layout (though considering how many [=MySpace=] sites were considered ugly, this was considered an improvement) when the uproars of TheyChangedItNowItSucks caused them to back down and allow users to change their profiles back to how they originally looked, glitter [=GIFs=] and all. This still hasn't stopped people from abandoning the site, unfortunately, and it was sold for a pittance to a group which includes an ad agency and Music/JustinTimberlake.
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* Website/MySpace Platform/MySpace resorted to a {{Retool}} in Fall 2010 due to fewer and fewer people using the site, having lost most of them to Platform/{{Facebook}}. The new CEO proclaimed that [=MySpace=] is no longer a social network, but "Social Entertainment", revamping itself into an entertainment site and alienating the few people who still used the site. This included a new logo, new homepage and a new profile layout. They were about to force everyone to upgrade their profiles to the new layout (though considering how many [=MySpace=] sites were considered ugly, this was considered an improvement) when the uproars of TheyChangedItNowItSucks caused them to back down and allow users to change their profiles back to how they originally looked, glitter [=GIFs=] and all. This still hasn't stopped people from abandoning the site, unfortunately, and it was sold for a pittance to a group which includes an ad agency and Music/JustinTimberlake.
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* Platform/{{Wattpad}} is a social networking site meant for publishing online literature, in a serious fashion. It has also become a host to lots of {{Fanfiction}} and, thanks to its multimedia features, even text/art dumps similar to that of Livejournal and Website/{{Tumblr}}. Wattpad still shows off itself as an online literature host site, displaying such on its homepage, hosting annual awards for them, and even allowing their popular ones to be ''commercialized''.
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* Platform/{{Wattpad}} is a social networking site meant for publishing online literature, in a serious fashion. It has also become a host to lots of {{Fanfiction}} and, thanks to its multimedia features, even text/art dumps similar to that of Livejournal and Website/{{Tumblr}}.Platform/{{Tumblr}}. Wattpad still shows off itself as an online literature host site, displaying such on its homepage, hosting annual awards for them, and even allowing their popular ones to be ''commercialized''.
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* Website/BZPower used to be the biggest fansite for the Franchise/{{LEGO}} ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' franchise, although other LEGO themes were regularly featured in the news and discussed as well, and in its heyday in the early-to-mid 2000s the site's traffic numbered in the thousands at any given time. Around the time the toy line was put on a near 5-year hiatus and the forums were taken down for updates, which eventually lead to the loss of the site's archives and the deletion of various reference sections, the bulk of its userbase left. In the early 2010s, the site became an all-round LEGO themed news, discussion and review site, with entire sub-forums dedicated to the more fantasy or action-oriented LEGO themes, such as ''Hero Factory'', ''Ninjago'' or ''Legends of Chima''. However, after most of these brands were discontinued, including the failed ''[[Toys/{{Bionicle2015}} BIONICLE]]'' reboot itself, and the majority of the userbase segregated to other places (various Discord servers, Platform/YouTube, the rival fansite [[WebOriginal/PandemicPanda TTV]], and even Website/FourChan), [=BZPower=] lost what little relevance it had and only has a handful of active members. Yet it still keeps posting general LEGO-related news updates.\\
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* Website/BZPower Platform/BZPower used to be the biggest fansite for the Franchise/{{LEGO}} ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' franchise, although other LEGO themes were regularly featured in the news and discussed as well, and in its heyday in the early-to-mid 2000s the site's traffic numbered in the thousands at any given time. Around the time the toy line was put on a near 5-year hiatus and the forums were taken down for updates, which eventually lead to the loss of the site's archives and the deletion of various reference sections, the bulk of its userbase left. In the early 2010s, the site became an all-round LEGO themed news, discussion and review site, with entire sub-forums dedicated to the more fantasy or action-oriented LEGO themes, such as ''Hero Factory'', ''Ninjago'' or ''Legends of Chima''. However, after most of these brands were discontinued, including the failed ''[[Toys/{{Bionicle2015}} BIONICLE]]'' reboot itself, and the majority of the userbase segregated to other places (various Discord servers, Platform/YouTube, the rival fansite [[WebOriginal/PandemicPanda TTV]], and even Website/FourChan), [=BZPower=] lost what little relevance it had and only has a handful of active members. Yet it still keeps posting general LEGO-related news updates.\\
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* The case with the Website/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGamerFromMars The Gamer From Mars]]. In the very beginning, the owner mainly showed video game reviews. After the success of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de3cONeaR_8 The Lavender Town Theory]]'' (which is the only video of his channel to have more than 1 million views) he decided to quit reviewing video games and focused more on discussing some fascinating theories that he found on the internet. He however has not stopped with making top 10 lists though, which he originally showed in between two video game reviews, but nowadays it is in between two video game theory videos.
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* The case with the Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGamerFromMars The Gamer From Mars]]. In the very beginning, the owner mainly showed video game reviews. After the success of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de3cONeaR_8 The Lavender Town Theory]]'' (which is the only video of his channel to have more than 1 million views) he decided to quit reviewing video games and focused more on discussing some fascinating theories that he found on the internet. He however has not stopped with making top 10 lists though, which he originally showed in between two video game reviews, but nowadays it is in between two video game theory videos.
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* Website/MySpace resorted to a {{Retool}} in Fall 2010 due to fewer and fewer people using the site, having lost most of them to Website/{{Facebook}}. The new CEO proclaimed that [=MySpace=] is no longer a social network, but "Social Entertainment", revamping itself into an entertainment site and alienating the few people who still used the site. This included a new logo, new homepage and a new profile layout. They were about to force everyone to upgrade their profiles to the new layout (though considering how many [=MySpace=] sites were considered ugly, this was considered an improvement) when the uproars of TheyChangedItNowItSucks caused them to back down and allow users to change their profiles back to how they originally looked, glitter [=GIFs=] and all. This still hasn't stopped people from abandoning the site, unfortunately, and it was sold for a pittance to a group which includes an ad agency and Music/JustinTimberlake.
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* Website/MySpace resorted to a {{Retool}} in Fall 2010 due to fewer and fewer people using the site, having lost most of them to Website/{{Facebook}}.Platform/{{Facebook}}. The new CEO proclaimed that [=MySpace=] is no longer a social network, but "Social Entertainment", revamping itself into an entertainment site and alienating the few people who still used the site. This included a new logo, new homepage and a new profile layout. They were about to force everyone to upgrade their profiles to the new layout (though considering how many [=MySpace=] sites were considered ugly, this was considered an improvement) when the uproars of TheyChangedItNowItSucks caused them to back down and allow users to change their profiles back to how they originally looked, glitter [=GIFs=] and all. This still hasn't stopped people from abandoning the site, unfortunately, and it was sold for a pittance to a group which includes an ad agency and Music/JustinTimberlake.
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* Website/BZPower used to be the biggest fansite for the Franchise/{{LEGO}} ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' franchise, although other LEGO themes were regularly featured in the news and discussed as well, and in its heyday in the early-to-mid 2000s the site's traffic numbered in the thousands at any given time. Around the time the toy line was put on a near 5-year hiatus and the forums were taken down for updates, which eventually lead to the loss of the site's archives and the deletion of various reference sections, the bulk of its userbase left. In the early 2010s, the site became an all-round LEGO themed news, discussion and review site, with entire sub-forums dedicated to the more fantasy or action-oriented LEGO themes, such as ''Hero Factory'', ''Ninjago'' or ''Legends of Chima''. However, after most of these brands were discontinued, including the failed ''[[Toys/{{Bionicle2015}} BIONICLE]]'' reboot itself, and the majority of the userbase segregated to other places (various Discord servers, Website/YouTube, the rival fansite [[WebOriginal/PandemicPanda TTV]], and even Website/FourChan), [=BZPower=] lost what little relevance it had and only has a handful of active members. Yet it still keeps posting general LEGO-related news updates.\\
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* Website/BZPower used to be the biggest fansite for the Franchise/{{LEGO}} ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' franchise, although other LEGO themes were regularly featured in the news and discussed as well, and in its heyday in the early-to-mid 2000s the site's traffic numbered in the thousands at any given time. Around the time the toy line was put on a near 5-year hiatus and the forums were taken down for updates, which eventually lead to the loss of the site's archives and the deletion of various reference sections, the bulk of its userbase left. In the early 2010s, the site became an all-round LEGO themed news, discussion and review site, with entire sub-forums dedicated to the more fantasy or action-oriented LEGO themes, such as ''Hero Factory'', ''Ninjago'' or ''Legends of Chima''. However, after most of these brands were discontinued, including the failed ''[[Toys/{{Bionicle2015}} BIONICLE]]'' reboot itself, and the majority of the userbase segregated to other places (various Discord servers, Website/YouTube, Platform/YouTube, the rival fansite [[WebOriginal/PandemicPanda TTV]], and even Website/FourChan), [=BZPower=] lost what little relevance it had and only has a handful of active members. Yet it still keeps posting general LEGO-related news updates.\\
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* Website/DeviantArt still focuses on being a website for users to generate and share their own artwork to others, but has spent the past couple years trying to {{Retool}} itself into an art-themed social-networking site. In addition, the "Deviant" part of the name has come into question, as the site has gained reputation for deleting artwork that they find to be risqué or outright pornographic, then again there is still a good-sized amount of pretty risqué artwork regardless, not to mention that there is still an [[ItsNotPornItsArt "Artistic Nude"]] category.
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* Website/DeviantArt Platform/DeviantArt still focuses on being a website for users to generate and share their own artwork to others, but has spent the past couple years trying to {{Retool}} itself into an art-themed social-networking site. In addition, the "Deviant" part of the name has come into question, as the site has gained reputation for deleting artwork that they find to be risqué or outright pornographic, then again there is still a good-sized amount of pretty risqué artwork regardless, not to mention that there is still an [[ItsNotPornItsArt "Artistic Nude"]] category.
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* The Website/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBZe0HUDEM3I_1pCU7nP8hQ/feed In Respect Of Maurice De Wilde]] was launched by a fan of the journalist ''Maurice De Wilde'' that wanted to KeepCirculatingTheTapes of his documentaries about UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 . He would eventually move on to KeepCirculatingTheTapes of Belgian documentaries about UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 that were made by other journalists.
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* The Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBZe0HUDEM3I_1pCU7nP8hQ/feed In Respect Of Maurice De Wilde]] was launched by a fan of the journalist ''Maurice De Wilde'' that wanted to KeepCirculatingTheTapes of his documentaries about UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 . He would eventually move on to KeepCirculatingTheTapes of Belgian documentaries about UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 that were made by other journalists.
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* Website/YouTube was originally meant to be a medium for people to broadcast self-made videos (hence the motto, "Broadcast Yourself"). Then people started uploading copyrighted material so that others could watch their favorite shows and movies anywhere without the hassle of commercials or having to buy the DVD. Today, it seems most people go to [=YouTube=] for mostly clips or episodes of mainstream commercial shows, while the site deals with lawsuits from companies like Viacom, with [=YouTube=] accused of letting copyrighted material be posted to increase the site's exposure. This led to the creation of Vevo, which is backed by the industry and specifically caters to music.
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* Website/YouTube Platform/YouTube was originally meant to be a medium for people to broadcast self-made videos (hence the motto, "Broadcast Yourself"). Then people started uploading copyrighted material so that others could watch their favorite shows and movies anywhere without the hassle of commercials or having to buy the DVD. Today, it seems most people go to [=YouTube=] for mostly clips or episodes of mainstream commercial shows, while the site deals with lawsuits from companies like Viacom, with [=YouTube=] accused of letting copyrighted material be posted to increase the site's exposure. This led to the creation of Vevo, which is backed by the industry and specifically caters to music.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/illumistream Illumistream]] (now known as Healthguru) used to be a general health channel on Website/YouTube, and they still do some general health advice videos. Then they started introducing a sex health segment. Then they started focusing more and more on sex health, to the point where it seemingly became their main focus. Then they started doing more and more videos on steamy sex confessions with little visible or tangential connection to actually health advice or even sex health advice, almost as if their whole intention now is to turn into a softer-than-softcore version of Penthouse or something. They have appeared to have learned the error of their ways and in the past several months returned to being a sex health/general health channel, with about an equal emphasis on the two.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/illumistream Illumistream]] (now known as Healthguru) used to be a general health channel on Website/YouTube, Platform/YouTube, and they still do some general health advice videos. Then they started introducing a sex health segment. Then they started focusing more and more on sex health, to the point where it seemingly became their main focus. Then they started doing more and more videos on steamy sex confessions with little visible or tangential connection to actually health advice or even sex health advice, almost as if their whole intention now is to turn into a softer-than-softcore version of Penthouse or something. They have appeared to have learned the error of their ways and in the past several months returned to being a sex health/general health channel, with about an equal emphasis on the two.
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* Website/GOGDotCom was originally designed to 1: provide quality old games, 2: do so at low prices and, 3: with no UsefulNotes/{{DRM}}. It has always had a few newish titles in its library, though all very much {{Cult Classic}}s (like ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' and ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'') and the newest titles being sequels (like one would get in the bundles that one would otherwise buy to get the old games) or spiritual successors to games that fit (such as ''VideoGame/UFOAfterBlank'' to the not carried ''VideoGame/XCom''). However, eventually they started selling ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' series due to GOG being owned by the company that makes the series. Eventually they rendered "GOG" as a meaningless acronym and started selling new games, usually for prices that aren't particularly low. However, much like TV Tropes itself, this doesn't take away from any of the old games on the site, which tend to sell the most, and games still do not come with DRM. (They ''have'' introduced a Steam-like client called ''Galaxy'', but it's completely optional)
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* Website/GOGDotCom Platform/GOGDotCom was originally designed to 1: provide quality old games, 2: do so at low prices and, 3: with no UsefulNotes/{{DRM}}. It has always had a few newish titles in its library, though all very much {{Cult Classic}}s (like ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' and ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'') and the newest titles being sequels (like one would get in the bundles that one would otherwise buy to get the old games) or spiritual successors to games that fit (such as ''VideoGame/UFOAfterBlank'' to the not carried ''VideoGame/XCom''). However, eventually they started selling ''VideoGame/TheWitcher'' series due to GOG being owned by the company that makes the series. Eventually they rendered "GOG" as a meaningless acronym and started selling new games, usually for prices that aren't particularly low. However, much like TV Tropes itself, this doesn't take away from any of the old games on the site, which tend to sell the most, and games still do not come with DRM. (They ''have'' introduced a Steam-like client called ''Galaxy'', but it's completely optional)
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* Raleigh-Durham radio station WQDR inexplicably transformed from a rock station to a country station on September 1984, while still keeping the initials "QDR", which stands for "QuaDraphonic Rock". Of course, this led to lots of backlash.
* Raleigh-Durham radio station WQDR inexplicably transformed from a rock station to a country station on September 1984, while still keeping the initials "QDR", which stands for "QuaDraphonic Rock". Of course, this led to lots of backlash.
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* Encyclopedia Dramatica started out as a catalog for Website/LiveJournal drama and other internet culture. In the years since, the site has gradually deteriorated towards {{imageboard|s}} culture and trolling (part of the blame for this can be laid at the feet of a NewbieBoom) and getting the distinction of being the "Wikipedia for Trolls" in the process. Eventually, the head administrator, Sherrod "Girlvinyl" [=DeGrippo=], had enough and {{Retool}}ed the site in April 2011 into [=OhInternet=], which returned to the tradition at cataloging memes and internet culture while purging all the NotSafeForWork material and trolling culture and style. Users of the site, however, were infuriated, quickly setting up mirror websites as a replacement and bombarding [=DeGrippo=] with hate mail and death threats. Worse, [=OhInternet=] didn't catch on with new users, who accused it to be a Website/KnowYourMeme ripoff among other things, and it was shut down in 2013.
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* Encyclopedia Dramatica started out as a catalog for Website/LiveJournal Platform/LiveJournal drama and other internet culture. In the years since, the site has gradually deteriorated towards {{imageboard|s}} culture and trolling (part of the blame for this can be laid at the feet of a NewbieBoom) and getting the distinction of being the "Wikipedia for Trolls" in the process. Eventually, the head administrator, Sherrod "Girlvinyl" [=DeGrippo=], had enough and {{Retool}}ed the site in April 2011 into [=OhInternet=], which returned to the tradition at cataloging memes and internet culture while purging all the NotSafeForWork material and trolling culture and style. Users of the site, however, were infuriated, quickly setting up mirror websites as a replacement and bombarding [=DeGrippo=] with hate mail and death threats. Worse, [=OhInternet=] didn't catch on with new users, who accused it to be a Website/KnowYourMeme ripoff among other things, and it was shut down in 2013.
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* Website/LiveJournal started out as the personal online journal of Brad Fitzpatrick way back in 1999 before becoming a blog hosting service. In 2011, however, its current owners (SUP Media) started plans to turn the site into a social media network like Facebook, [[http://manonon.livejournal.com/6816.html with a preview of the proposed new system here]]. Some changes have already been implemented, despite the loud protests of much of its userbase. These changes [[http://www.qualitylogoproducts.com/blog/keep-your-customers-dont-pull-a-livejournal/ have also drawn criticism from observers]] and even sparked a migration to some of [=LiveJournal=]'s sister services, such as Dreamwidth. The site's current Russian-centric ownership which is bound to the political pressures of Moscow really isn't helping either.
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* Website/LiveJournal [=LiveJournal=] started out as the personal online journal of Brad Fitzpatrick way back in 1999 before becoming a blog hosting service. In 2011, however, its current owners (SUP Media) started plans to turn the site into a social media network like Facebook, [[http://manonon.livejournal.com/6816.html with a preview of the proposed new system here]]. Some changes have already been implemented, despite the loud protests of much of its userbase. These changes [[http://www.qualitylogoproducts.com/blog/keep-your-customers-dont-pull-a-livejournal/ have also drawn criticism from observers]] and even sparked a migration to some of [=LiveJournal=]'s sister services, such as Dreamwidth. The site's current Russian-centric ownership which is bound to the political pressures of Moscow really isn't helping either.
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* Platform/{{Wattpad}} is a social networking site meant for publishing online literature, in a serious fashion. It has also become a host to lots of {{Fanfiction}} and, thanks to its multimedia features, even text/art dumps similar to that of Website/{{Livejournal}} and Website/{{Tumblr}}. Wattpad still shows off itself as an online literature host site, displaying such on its homepage, hosting annual awards for them, and even allowing their popular ones to be ''commercialized''.
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* Platform/{{Wattpad}} is a social networking site meant for publishing online literature, in a serious fashion. It has also become a host to lots of {{Fanfiction}} and, thanks to its multimedia features, even text/art dumps similar to that of Website/{{Livejournal}} Livejournal and Website/{{Tumblr}}. Wattpad still shows off itself as an online literature host site, displaying such on its homepage, hosting annual awards for them, and even allowing their popular ones to be ''commercialized''.
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* US radio stations have an interdependent relationship with Billboard's charts (the charts reflect sales, sometimes online streams and airplay -- which is partly determined by the charts), making stations' playlists very susceptible to changes Billboard makes. In October 2012, they [[http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat/ask-billboard-chart-ch-ch-changes-1007979382.story included digital sales]] in chart calculations for rock, country, urban, Latin and other genre charts (the Hot 100, the rough equivalent of top 40 and almost entirely pop, already factored them in.) This doesn't sound like much, but it meant that artists with niche genre fanbases, like R&B singer/songwriter Miguel or country artist Music/EricChurch, saw their chart positions decimated by the likes of pop artists Music/{{Rihanna}} and Music/TaylorSwift -- ''in just one day''. The No. 1 song on the rap charts that day? Music/{{PSY}}'s "Music/GangnamStyle", a KPop song that technically has rapping but whose audience is clearly different than, say, Music/{{Drake}}'s. The UnfortunateImplications [[http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=94009#unread suggest themselves]].
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* US radio stations have an interdependent relationship with Billboard's charts (the charts reflect sales, sometimes online streams and airplay -- which is partly determined by the charts), making stations' playlists very susceptible to changes Billboard makes. In October 2012, they [[http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat/ask-billboard-chart-ch-ch-changes-1007979382.story included digital sales]] in chart calculations for rock, country, urban, Latin and other genre charts (the Hot 100, where the rough equivalent of top 40 "top 40" originally came from and almost entirely pop, already factored them in.) in). This doesn't sound like much, but it meant that artists with niche genre fanbases, like R&B singer/songwriter Miguel or country artist Music/EricChurch, saw their chart positions decimated by the likes of pop artists Music/{{Rihanna}} and Music/TaylorSwift -- ''in just one day''. The No. 1 song on the rap charts that day? Music/{{PSY}}'s "Music/GangnamStyle", a KPop song that technically has rapping but whose audience is clearly different than, say, Music/{{Drake}}'s. The UnfortunateImplications [[http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=94009#unread suggest themselves]].
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* Social networking sites/apps in general have a tendency to try to become clones of one another, as they all jockey to be the one place users spend their online time. So Facebook tries to be Twitter, Twitter tries to be Facebook, Snapchat tries to be Instagram, Instagram (which has already been bought out by Facebook at this point) tries to be Snapchat and later [=TikTok=], and everybody else tries to integrate tightly with the big social networks (and maybe get bought out by them for big bucks). Whatever made any of the sites unique in the first place might get forgotten in the process.
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* Social networking sites/apps in general have a tendency to try to become clones of one another, as they all jockey to be the one place users spend their online time. So Facebook tries to be Twitter, Twitter Twitter/X, Twitter/X tries to be Facebook, Snapchat tries to be Instagram, Instagram (which has already been bought out by Facebook at this point) tries to be Snapchat and later Snapchat, ''everybody'' tries to be [=TikTok=], and everybody else tries to integrate tightly with the big social networks (and maybe get bought out by them for big bucks). Whatever made any of the sites unique in the first place might get forgotten in the process.
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* Website/{{Neopets}} followed a very similar path: bought by a major corporation (Viacom, via Nickelodeon), more product placement and intrusive advertising, virtual currency, slight bowdlerization, etc. The changes haven't been too major, but they are widely noted. Now they're owned by ''VideoGame/JumpStart'', and the site has gotten considerably worse since then with major features like Key Quest and Habitarium being purged, certain features e.g. the Almost Abandoned Attic glitching and being left unfixed and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking an uncalled-for 55th pet, the Vandagyre]].
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* Website/{{Neopets}} followed a very similar path: bought by a major corporation (Viacom, via Nickelodeon), more product placement and intrusive advertising, virtual currency, slight bowdlerization, etc. The changes haven't been too major, but they are widely noted. Now they're owned by ''VideoGame/JumpStart'', and the site has gotten considerably worse since then with major features like Key Quest and Habitarium being purged, certain features e.g. the Almost Abandoned Attic glitching and being left unfixed and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking an uncalled-for 55th pet, the Vandagyre]]. However, in 2023 the site became independently owned again, and many of the glitches including the Almost Abandoned Attic have been fixed.
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* The UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}} rock station 102.1 The Edge (aka CFNY FM, "The Spirit Of Radio" that Music/{{Rush}} so famously wrote a song about) has suffered this, especially over the last few years. The station started broadcasting in 1961, and experienced a critically positive reception in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when it was known as one of the few Canadian radio stations which played alternative music. In the late 1990s, the station was bought by Rogers Communications, and became another corporate rock station. Its programming was homogenized to a point that listeners started to rebel against the station, calling in for alternative songs during all-rock countdowns. Another buyout, this time by Corus Entertainment, completed the transfer of CFNY from truly independent to corporate radio that stifled all creativity. Its decline culminated in a round of layoffs in the company, which included two prominent DJ's: Barry Taylor (who hosted the Thursday block of programming, a traditionally dead block that flourished through his charisma and personality) and Martin Streek, who had worked at the station for over 20 years (he was part of the station's success in the 1980s) and hosted the weekend "live-to-air" events at Toronto clubs. Shortly after the two men were fired, the station whitewashed their biographies and any trace of their careers from the company's website. A few weeks later, Streek wrote a cryptic status message on Facebook ("So...I guess that's it...thanks everyone...I will see you all again soon (not too soon though)... Let the stories begin.") Soon after, Streek committed suicide, and many called The Edge to task for their non-existent coverage of his death. There may be The Edge, but The Spirit Of Radio has finally left the station for good. Though they play indie bands and Canadian alternative acts that are difficult to find on other stations, they mostly rely on alternative hits from the 90s-2010s, mostly ones that even non-alternative listeners are familiar with such as "[[Music/TheKillers Mr. Brightside]]" and "[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Smells Like Teen Spirit]]".
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* The UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}} rock station 102.1 The Edge (aka CFNY FM, "The Spirit Of Radio" that Music/{{Rush}} Music/{{Rush|Band}} so famously wrote a song about) has suffered this, especially over the last few years. The station started broadcasting in 1961, and experienced a critically positive reception in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when it was known as one of the few Canadian radio stations which played alternative music. In the late 1990s, the station was bought by Rogers Communications, and became another corporate rock station. Its programming was homogenized to a point that listeners started to rebel against the station, calling in for alternative songs during all-rock countdowns. Another buyout, this time by Corus Entertainment, completed the transfer of CFNY from truly independent to corporate radio that stifled all creativity. Its decline culminated in a round of layoffs in the company, which included two prominent DJ's: Barry Taylor (who hosted the Thursday block of programming, a traditionally dead block that flourished through his charisma and personality) and Martin Streek, who had worked at the station for over 20 years (he was part of the station's success in the 1980s) and hosted the weekend "live-to-air" events at Toronto clubs. Shortly after the two men were fired, the station whitewashed their biographies and any trace of their careers from the company's website. A few weeks later, Streek wrote a cryptic status message on Facebook ("So...I guess that's it...thanks everyone...I will see you all again soon (not too soon though)... Let the stories begin.") Soon after, Streek committed suicide, and many called The Edge to task for their non-existent coverage of his death. There may be The Edge, but The Spirit Of Radio has finally left the station for good. Though they play indie bands and Canadian alternative acts that are difficult to find on other stations, they mostly rely on alternative hits from the 90s-2010s, mostly ones that even non-alternative listeners are familiar with such as "[[Music/TheKillers Mr. Brightside]]" and "[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Smells Like Teen Spirit]]".
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* XM had a hard rock/metal-oriented station called "The Boneyard" which played all kinds of hard rock and metal, new and old. It wouldnt be that odd to hear, for example, Music/YngwieMalmsteen followed by Bon Jovi. Once the XM/Sirius merger happened though, the Boneyard basically became a Classic Hard Rock station (lots of Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/{{Rush}}) with some harder metal (Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/JudasPriest) thrown in. Meanwhile all the hair metal acts got moved over to Hair Nation. However, both stations mainly stick with the past (Boneyard will occasionally play a newer track by hard rock acts, but Hair Nation is for all intents and purposes a retro station).
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* XM had a hard rock/metal-oriented station called "The Boneyard" which played all kinds of hard rock and metal, new and old. It wouldnt be that odd to hear, for example, Music/YngwieMalmsteen followed by Bon Jovi. Once the XM/Sirius merger happened though, the Boneyard basically became a Classic Hard Rock station (lots of Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/{{Rush}}) Music/{{Rush|Band}}) with some harder metal (Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/JudasPriest) thrown in. Meanwhile all the hair metal acts got moved over to Hair Nation. However, both stations mainly stick with the past (Boneyard will occasionally play a newer track by hard rock acts, but Hair Nation is for all intents and purposes a retro station).
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* Website/{{Wattpad}} is a social networking site meant for publishing online literature, in a serious fashion. It has also become a host to lots of {{Fanfiction}} and, thanks to its multimedia features, even text/art dumps similar to that of Website/{{Livejournal}} and Website/{{Tumblr}}. Wattpad still shows off itself as an online literature host site, displaying such on its homepage, hosting annual awards for them, and even allowing their popular ones to be ''commercialized''.
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* Website/{{Wattpad}} Platform/{{Wattpad}} is a social networking site meant for publishing online literature, in a serious fashion. It has also become a host to lots of {{Fanfiction}} and, thanks to its multimedia features, even text/art dumps similar to that of Website/{{Livejournal}} and Website/{{Tumblr}}. Wattpad still shows off itself as an online literature host site, displaying such on its homepage, hosting annual awards for them, and even allowing their popular ones to be ''commercialized''.
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** Really, motel brands as a whole. The whole point of a chain motel was to present a uniform experience for customers — i.e., they could count on consistent quality and amenities just based on the name out front. Some also differentiated themselves architecturally: Knights Inn had a castle-like appearance; Holiday Inn had blocky green buildings with giant, flashing neon signs; Super 8 had Bavarian architecture; Red Roof Inn had, well, its red roof; and so on. Now, re-branding runs so rampant that most chains are extremely diffuse in their offerings. You could stay at a really nice Motel 6 in one town and a really bad one in another, based almost entirely on what brand the building carried in its former life.
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** Really, motel brands as a whole. The whole point of a chain motel was to present a uniform experience for customers — — i.e., they could count on consistent quality and amenities just based on the name out front. Some also differentiated themselves architecturally: Knights Inn had a castle-like appearance; Holiday Inn had blocky green buildings with giant, flashing neon signs; Super 8 had Bavarian architecture; Red Roof Inn had, well, its red roof; and so on. Now, re-branding runs so rampant that most chains are extremely diffuse in their offerings. You could stay at a really nice Motel 6 in one town and a really bad one in another, based almost entirely on what brand the building carried in its former life.
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* Believe it or not, this almost happened to Creator/{{Disney}} in the mid-2000s. At that time, then-CEO Creator/MichaelEisner decided to convert their historic feature animation division into an all-CGI studio in an effort to mostly compete with Creator/DreamWorksAnimation[[note]]Given that Dreamworks Animation is the brainchild of Jeffrey Katzenberg, who had a major grudge against Eisner even back when he was a Disney employee in the 90's...[[/note]], which was outstripping their films in popularity by that point. Despite their acquisition of the Creator/{{Pixar}} animation studio during that same time, between this and Creator/DisneyChannel's focus on tween-centric entertainment in the wake of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' and ''Series/HannahMontana'''s popularity people started to think the company was changing itself into a tween-star-spewing factory rather than an entertainment company focusing on animation and family entertainment. This turned around in TheNewTens when their in-house animation studio yielded up its biggest hits in decades starting with ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', though they permanently gave up on hand-drawn animation at the same time (after its much-anticipated revival with ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' and ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' didn't prove profitable at the box office).
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* Believe it or not, this almost happened to Creator/{{Disney}} in the mid-2000s. At that time, then-CEO Creator/MichaelEisner Michael Eisner decided to convert their historic feature animation division into an all-CGI studio in an effort to mostly compete with Creator/DreamWorksAnimation[[note]]Given that Dreamworks Animation is the brainchild of Jeffrey Katzenberg, who had a major grudge against Eisner even back when he was a Disney employee in the 90's...[[/note]], which was outstripping their films in popularity by that point. Despite their acquisition of the Creator/{{Pixar}} animation studio during that same time, between this and Creator/DisneyChannel's focus on tween-centric entertainment in the wake of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' and ''Series/HannahMontana'''s popularity people started to think the company was changing itself into a tween-star-spewing factory rather than an entertainment company focusing on animation and family entertainment. This turned around in TheNewTens when their in-house animation studio yielded up its biggest hits in decades starting with ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', though they permanently gave up on hand-drawn animation at the same time (after its much-anticipated revival with ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' and ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' didn't prove profitable at the box office).
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* Franchise/StarWars.com had plenty of content, from humorous "[[CaptionHumor subtitle this pic]]" to a database on items, characters and places. Now it's much more streamlined, to the point that the database pages are simple, leaving most of the content to be found on links to [[TheWikiRule Wookieepedia]], and much (but not all) of the previous pages [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes can only be found on the Internet Archive]].
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* Franchise/StarWars.com had plenty of content, from humorous "[[CaptionHumor subtitle this pic]]" to a database on items, characters and places. Now it's much more streamlined, to the point that the database pages are simple, leaving most of the content to be found on links to [[TheWikiRule Wookieepedia]], Wookieepedia, and much (but not all) of the previous pages [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes can only be found on the Internet Archive]].
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* [[http://www.genius.com Genius.com]] (formerly known as Rap Genius) was founded in 2009 as a database for rap songs and annotated lyrics. In July 2014, the site rebranded as Genius, as the site wanted to expand into other genres of music, as well as non-music lists such as TV, literature, movies, and video games. However, rap music still takes up much of the site's traffic.
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* Don't get any [[strike:cranky old broadcasting codgers]] industry veterans started on Clear Channel. Or JackFM. Or voicetracking, where a DJ in Philly fakes that he knows all about "the haps" in Walla Walla.
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* Don't get any [[strike:cranky old broadcasting codgers]] industry veterans started on Clear Channel.Creator/IHeartMedia. Or JackFM. Or voicetracking, where a DJ in Philly fakes that he knows all about "the haps" in Walla Walla.
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* The network decay for commercial stations in Britain came when Creator/GlobalRadio (who bought out GCap, a hybrid of GWR & Capital Radio Group rebranded "heritage stations" into Heart (softer, more female music) or Capital (generic top 40, usually with Music/KatyPerry in StupidStatementDanceMix format - note the station is named after 95.8 Capital FM). People were not amused. Personality-driven radio, which is common [[EaglelandOsmosis in North America]], was common in Britain, until 2008, for GCap until Global came in.
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* The network decay for commercial stations in Britain came when Creator/GlobalRadio (who bought out GCap, a hybrid of GWR & Capital Radio Group rebranded "heritage stations" into Heart (softer, more female music) or Capital (generic top 40, usually with Music/KatyPerry in StupidStatementDanceMix format remixes - note the station is named after 95.8 Capital FM). People were not amused. Personality-driven radio, which is common [[EaglelandOsmosis in North America]], was common in Britain, until 2008, for GCap until Global came in.
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** Speaking of [=YouTube=], the COPA implementation of 2020 was mainly done automatically, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids causing videos not meant for kids to be flagged as being for children]]. This has lead to bizarre situations ranging from television commercials (especially those with animated or puppet mascots) and GameShows having kids' shows like ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' and ''WebVideo/RyanToysReview'' in the recommended section to adult animated sitcoms and WebAnimation/YouTubePoop displaying an ad to watch them on [=YouTube=] Kids and automatically disabling comments.
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** Speaking of [=YouTube=], the COPA implementation of 2020 was mainly done automatically, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids causing videos not meant for kids to be flagged as being for children]]. This has lead led to bizarre situations ranging from television commercials (especially those with animated or puppet mascots) and GameShows having kids' shows like ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' and ''WebVideo/RyanToysReview'' in the recommended section to adult animated sitcoms and WebAnimation/YouTubePoop YouTubePoop displaying an ad to watch them on [=YouTube=] Kids and automatically disabling comments.
