Erik Schnetter
Phil GiammatteiGod this is fucking incredible. Please take my word for it and read
Isaac Halvorson@phil I scrolled quickly through this and thought
@phil Gonna have to go back and do an actual read through asap. Thanks for the rec!
dbat 
@phil That was some kind of incredible.
Luis@phil I see what you did there. Enjoy that coffee!
jonathan@phil omg, brilliant
Brian 
@phil This had a real House of Leaves vibe to it.
Bram Meehan@BramMeehan @phil Buckle up.
serena 🌙@phil post of leaves
Clive Thompson@clive yeah this is a great idea and would have been fine with generic fake ads but they are on a whole other level
The attention to detail, man, I doff my hat
Liam O'Sullivan@phil excellent
SunnJax 🌷🏳️🌈 
@phil That gave me a really good laugh. Thanks, I needed that! 😂
Candy Apples Annie 🎄@phil my browser needs a shower now
cobalt going beige today@phil Oh that hurt my eyes and stressed the main points. Hard to keep going all the way to the end. It shows a nightmare of horror for monetizers using ad placement on blog posts.
Aubrey De Los Destinos
Bruce Heerssen 
@AubreyDeLosDestinos @phil @clive
Or that one video where the narrator talks about how the English language should be spelled the way it sounds, and sound the way it is spelled and by the end of the video he sounds like he's speaking Elizabethan English and the spellings are unrecognizable, yet you can still follow every word.
@AubreyDeLosDestinos @phil @clive
I'm afraid not, it's been quite a few years, but if anyone else does, I'd love to see it again.
Doctor LURK@phil aesthetically, this reminds me very much of reading Marshall McLuhan's "The Medium Is the Message" back in college. Thanks for sharing!
Dizzy the Void@phil It definitely served as a good advertisement for the font it kept using for "become"!
Tricot Feelya@phil your lithium refill is ready at the pharmacy
Kudra 
@phil true art.
John Harden@phil RABBITS! ENJOY THIS HOLE
tony 🏳️⚧️ 🏴 🚴🧗🏻@phil somehow i made that guy 47 cents (if the tracker is real)
@autonomousapps the amount of monetizable elements squeezed onto the page, and the amount of microcents it ultimately adds up to is so hilariously bleak
@phil I experienced several moments where I simply stared in awe/horror as the ticker rocketed up
Stephen Dioxide 
@phil Holy mackerel.
Tito Swineflu@phil I feel like this is processed world for 2024 (https://libcom.org/article/processed-world-magazine)
@tito_swineflu oh man, filing this away
@phil processed world was super popular back in the day.
Baggypants@phil I've put am order in for a bag of mind bending god radishes.
@phil I liked the bit when scrolling up quickly about the Sollicitudin porttitor.
Darwin Woodkaexcept my adblocker blocks all the ads
@darwinwoodka I’m gonna call that part of the art
Brett Kosinski@phil Truly incredible! Not just as a piece of satirical writing, but in the way it uses the web to play with visual form and structure.
I ignored this when I first saw it go by, assuming by its headline and presence on Hacker News--typically a hive of libertarian aspirational capitalism--that it was a genuine post on monetization strategies. Thanks for bringing it back to my attention!
@brettk yeah it’s so good at mimicking the style that it’s easy to tune out. After reading it that seems very deliberate
Brian DearReminds me of a stunt I pulled in an all-hands at MP3•com in 1999, with the evil CEO there and everything. The execs wanted more and more monetization. I headed up the Web Design team and we were going to introduce the new homepage and site design and as a secret I instead showed this hideous homepage with the MP3•com logo and every imaginable banner ad and animated crap and more ads and more upsells--the whole homepage was crap. Whole company broke out laughing. CEO wasn't pleased 🤷♂️
@brianstorms that absolutely rocks
Mike Dixson
Steven Pestana@phil Is this the sequel to House of Leaves?
Wyvernsridge 🌻
@phil just WOW!
Varyag@phil that was so cool! Turned into House of Leaves there at the end. And all for a dollar and 17 cents.
Dave Tabb@phil Lort, but that push notification made me laugh so hard I cried!
Mei Lin 
@phil
This is a piece of art.
This is a piece of art.
henriquelalves@phil holy fuck that's incredible
It's the purest form of poetry in digital form
It's the purest form of poetry in digital form
Many Colors, Many Forms, Many Flavors, Maybe More@phil no, because this post is clickbait.
provide a brief summary of the article you're linking to and note /why/ it's so ~incredible~, and wei'll read it, /if/ it's interesting to muis.
provide a brief summary of the article you're linking to and note /why/ it's so ~incredible~, and wei'll read it, /if/ it's interesting to muis.
Rob Vincent (OLD ACCOUNT)@polychromata @phil The urge to make that snap judgement is entirely understandable given how that sort of thing usually works, but in this particular case (trying not to spoil things) the linked post really isn't what you think and you truly might appreciate checking it out without expectations.
Enigel@Rob_T_Firefly @polychromata @phil I don't know, even art comes with some kind of blurb or awareness of genre. Like, are we talking Truth Coming Out of Her Well or Saturn Devouring His Son? You know, that level of bracing oneself ;)
quadrivial, tall and graying@phil Holy hand grenades. That's incredible. Now I can monetize Yugoslavian women are looking to marry you my blog, which consists of one page how to use AI TO MAKE BILLIONS and a picture right now!
laen🪻@phil as a former writer/editor who quit in part due to the nature of "content" now, i cannot tell you how much i love this.
StroomAfwaarts 🌱@phil lol my browser crashed 🤣
@StroomAfwaarts that only enhances the effect
Colin Rosenthal ✡️🕎 ❤️🇮🇱❤️ 🕎✡️@phil Ha ha. I did stop reading the text quite early, but I absolutely stayed for the ads.
mmby@phil I was put off by the AI art at first but it turns out in service of the message
Isaac Ji KuoLook, I just want to play Timber Quest okay? For ... reasons.
WHY WON'T IT LET ME PLAY TIMBER QUEST?
ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ@phil I wanted to read, but gave up due to horrible contrast between text and background. It was just too difficult to parse.