User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/How we're testing the fandom.com domain migration/@comment-27780164-20181102020407/@comment-25029082-20181103125030

" This is a corporation rebranding itself. A corporation is allowed to rebrand itself however often it wants. You know before both "Fandom" and "Wikia" this was called "Wikicities"?"

Well, this time it's much different over the earlier. At least "WikiCities" and "Wikia" still had "wiki" which made it obvious that you are browsing a wiki. On the other hand, "FANDOM" seems more like a fansite or clickbait editorial like BuzzFeed, Gawker, and VICE (if you think some of the blogs are good, read a few articles from them).

"They literally own the software these wiki communities are using. The communities use them for free. The company can call it whatever the hell they want."

The same can be said for any community, especially MediaWiki and Miraheze. However, software-wise they are still using a 6-and-a-half years old MediaWiki 1.19, which is severely outdated.

"This is a business, they need to make money from advertisements. We make the content for them, they supply the platform, and the ads pay for everything. Sure ads suck but how the hell is that a surprise?"

Have a look at this.