Mother Jones
How are you? Feeling good? Feeling spry? Eager for 2015? Ready to give it your all? Make it the year when it all finally happens? When the stars align and you take those ideas in your mind and that ambition in your belly and match them with piss and vinegar and do something real? Something that will give your life meaning? Something that matters?
To borrow a phrase from some of 2014’s most depressingly successful content thieves entrepreneurs, “haha.”
The three people behind the immensely popular Twitter accounts @HistoryInPics and @EarthPix have raised $2 million from investors…According to TechCrunch, venture firms 500 Startups, Upfront Ventures, and Daher Capital have all thrown in for the social media start-up that as of a year ago was raking in about $50,000 a month. They’re now reportedly taking in about $1 million a month.
The Twitter accounts have become immensely popular online, amassing millions of followers in less than two years of existence. The company gets its content largely by scraping places like Reddit for images and captions. The only problem? The images are often fake and the captions are often wrong.
Life has no meaning. Nothing matters.
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