Board Thread:New Features/@comment-134861-20190207143747/@comment-1038387-20190207150147

People have been complaining about this for as long as it has been happening. To the point that this is old news. Here's a short roundup.
 * Short version: websites require money. Ads give money. Ads need clicks. Clickbait gives clicks. It may not be the the most popular, or even the most effective, strategy. But it's one they've tried.
 * As for videos, absolutely. Annoying AF and zero content control for wikis. But with the recent staff reshuffle, a lot of the Featured Video people were let go. So who knows what the future brings.
 * The Fandom name is, again, because of advertisers. Nobody outside wiki editors is all too familiar with the concept of wikis, no matter what wiki editors think. Advertisers just see "user-generated content" and they're weary of that (that's verrrrry scandal-prone in their eyes).
 * In case you're living under a rock and haven't clicked that annoying global banner: "serious wikis", those in the lifestyle vertical, will mostly be moved to Wikia.org rather than Fandom.org.
 * Editing wikis is, and always has been, a volunteer job. You knew that when you signed up. You knew Wikicities/Wikia/Fandom/whatever was going to make money off it. But you only complain about the profit, and not the costs they make.