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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • Story time:

    I worked for an insurance company a long time ago. We sold insurance for 1, 2 or 3 years, and each year we would prompt the user to extend.

    At some point we changed to a yearly subscription that you could cancel at any time and even get a prorated refund. This made us substantially more money because far more people would forget to cancel their subscription than there were people committing or extending to 3 year insurance. So the number of users reaching the max of 3 years increased.




  • Some people just like following other people’s life around. It’s the reality TV on today. You can create strong parasocial bonds with people who don’t know you.

    I don’t personally follow any such channels, but I do follow other small Internet celebrities and grew do care about them. Like I was shocked when Simon Griez had brain cancer, and I feel sorry for Diane the physics girl for her 3 year long covid battle. These people have no idea who I am.

    Many times these channels start small and many users follow them since the beginning, so a bond naturally grows. Then the quality of videos grows as the income starts coming in.