The comments about "AnandTech’s rebuke of sensationalism, link baiting, and the path to shallow 10-o'clock-news reporting" are interesting.

Sounds like it difficult to make enough to survive unless you're doing these things.

Which I suspect ties back to things like Google (and others) neglecting the quality of organic search, pushing it down the page, etc. Or competing with quality content by exposing it in snippets and AI summaries with only subtle ways to get to the actual article.

I suppose, if that's the case, those practices eventually eat their own tail. No new Anandtech content to ignore or copy now, for example.