MTV had to pay to run the videos, as I understand it they also had to share ad revenue, and ad revenue was a challenge because audience attention span was measured in 3-5 minute increments rather than in half-hour or hour-long blocks of time. The economics were never favourable for them; the only reason they've hung around this long is because they had the right idea at the right time in the early 1980s with running music videos on cable television, and they pivoted out to reality TV a decade later.

When you buy a gift card, a diligent purchaser will ensure that the scratch-off part isn't already scratched off.

No mention of any of this is suspicious.

James Yahui Zhou, the controlling shareholder of Kunlun, is both Chair of Opera's Board and its CEO: "As of the date of this annual report, Kunlun, a Chinese public company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, indirectly owns 68.8% of our issued and outstanding ordinary shares.

oh kinda like how instagram forced engagement with Threads by signing people up, integrating it into the app and continually pestering people to use it even when they have denied and turned off all notificatiosn and prompts for your stupid product?

oh you mean kinda like that?? fuck right off you fucking idiot.