This used to be an informative website on how to do DIY stuff, aimed at young adults.
The audience seems to have.... changed?
What happened to WikiHow
This used to be an informative website on how to do DIY stuff, aimed at young adults.
The audience seems to have.... changed?
13 Comments
schwim@piefed.zip · 40 pts · 339d
It looks like it's been overrun with AI "articles". There's tons of telltale stuff like this:
I know that they took some heat for adopting AI to generate their images but it looks like it's gone much farther than that.
I am pretty sure the content is irrelevant to the owners as from it's first sale in 2006, it existed primarily to be an adsense ad farm.
https://buzzlogic.com/business/the-story-of-wikihow-and-how/?admin
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 20 pts · 339d
I never found wikihow to be very good anyway.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 339d
their DIY stuff wasn't half bad
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 338d
Yes! Now I can find out if I'm a femboy.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 338d
Well? We're waiting!
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 338d
yakko@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 338d
Literally the definition. What is this gatekeeping shit?
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 338d
Well, I'm a woman and it's letting me call myself a femboy, so... 🤷🏽♀️
tetris11@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 338d
Well I'm a guy, and apparently I'm a "chapstick lesbian" according to another quiz
yakko@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 338d
The only way that doesn't work is if it doesn't work for you. I look like what you imagine when someone says "guy who ordered an IPA", but imo we are all who we say we are. End of.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk · -5 pts · 339d
Have you met young adults these days? Labubu trending generator is precisely their mental age.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 338d
Hey! Some of us are holding strong away from garbage like that and instead rescuing stuffed animals from thrift shops!
I don't wanna be lumped in with the labubu crowd!
ikon106@sopuli.xyz · -2 pts · 338d
Ok, boomer