User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Fandom and Curse Media are joining forces/@comment-76.102.190.210-20181213025330/@comment-1038387-20181214003207

How do you know they "plied Twitch with money to bury the competition"? Maybe Twitch sold off Curse because its format and those things users like makes it harder to sell ads? Adpocalypse is happening all over the net, the days advertisers just kept coming are over. Timing, lack of plans and even the few words they do mention make it just as, if not more, likely Twitch just dumped something that drained resources and Wikia just scooped it up. Wikia has no idea what to do with it yet. Does that sound like a carefully researched expansion strategy?

This really shouldn't be about Wikia acquiring Curse, but Twitch selling it. Whether you like Wikia's forceful ad strategy or not, they seem to work better than whatever Curse tried. Happy users don't pay the bills.