What an interesting question. When I first got into computing back in the 80's and 90's, people wrote viruses just for the challenge and fun of it. Some people just want to watch the world burn. This was seen as obvious motivation, it was unquestioned. It was only after crypto mining and ransonware became big things in the 2010's, that people started assuming a financial motive behind attacks.

Up through the mid-2010's, people posted amateur porn largely for personal fun and ego boost. Occasionally, regular people would try to make a buck. But it was mostly people posting selfies to /r/gonewild because they enjoyed the attention. Then OnlyFans came out, and now virtually anyone posting amateur adult material can be assumed to be driving traffic to a monetization channel.

Sorry for the tangents. It just strikes me how normalized "side hustle" culture has become. It was not very long ago at all that it wouldn't even occur to most of us to question a DDOS attacker's "motive".

We all have been seeing random stackoverflow derivative sites pop up in search. They are taking the exact questions, description and answer and "bloggerizing" them.

There are dozens of sites like this. I even came across YouTube channels with thousands and thousands videos that created slideshows with elevator music that presented SO question and answers one sentence at a time. You can convert SO posts to blogs fairly easily and they rank.

I am going to guess that some people are trying to scrape the stack overflow data to make their own spinoff blog versions of it.

Presumably advertising for the ddos service; "pay us and we'll knock your target offline! Remember, we're the ones who killed stackoverflow, we can help you"

Well, they just got rid of their job board.

Probably trying to ransom if I had to guess.

Probably the owner of one of those stackoverflow clones would see a bump in traffic => more ad revenue if SO is experiencing slower response times/downtime.

Someone is behind schedule and _really_ needed to focus on his work.