Sarcasm, Inc. started out as a page on a social network. I won't say where, because I don't like using the F word.
It then had stints on YouTube, G+, Twitter, Pinterest, and its own site. The site still exists, but is in unpublished mode. You kind of need to be active on some social media somewhere to direct traffic to a site, unless you pay for ads.
When it was a page and an entity on social platforms, there were admins involved to keep up the posting, and most of it was in the form of captioned images, most of which were "stolen" by people with other pages to post on their own. That's just how it works. There's very few creators of original content. Hell, even people on Twitter who write funny stuff find it on websites.
I wouldn't want to be a content creator again with the pressure of keeping a social media presence updated. Nobody got paid for what they put out there back then. Now, people can put together any random shit and post in online somewhere and make money from it.
The best humor, and indeed the best sarcasm, is found in the writings and the videos by people who aren't there for humor, but who have a good sense of humor. The humor circuit on social media gets stale - partly because everybody is ripping off everybody else's stuff, so you're seeing it redundantly - and there's really something to be said for spontaneous comments.
Social media makes you have to mass produce your humor or whatever content, which leads to its eventual loss of quality. And then there's 20 million other people doing the exact same thing. Of course, this happens with everything. But there will be a time, believe it or not, when social media as you know it will have fallen into the past. Society will move on at some point.
Stop sitting on lame social networks mindlessly scrolling through a feed full of shit you're not interested in anymore. Look around the internet outside those sites. When you find something you like, tell people about it and save it and keep going back to it. See, you're bored a lot of the time now on social media, and it's your own fault. By sitting there when it doesn't do it for you anymore, you're part of the problem. Go broaden your horizons and share what you find, and help build an internet based on what people really want, instead of what algorithms served you.
Keep calm and be sarcastic. This message has been brought to you by Sarcasm, Inc.
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