[Tanniker Smith]

I have to credit the guy. He created an interesting fan site that I visited a few times about 10 years ago or so, and parlayed that into a helluva lot of money. That's the Internet for you.

I never came up with a good hobby/fan page that would amount to anything. Then again, I wasn't going to pay the $100 or so that it cost back then for a vanity web site name. (And there was the laziness factor, too.)

TS

[CounterCounterCulture]

Indeed.

[weegee]

But did the phrase begin with the site or did it exist on the net beforehand?

I've seen this trend before (especially in the mid-1990s) when things that constantly circulated the internet (going back to the 1970s and 1980s) were culled from the internet and published as quickie books (like the misheard record lyics lists).

Good to see someone make a dollar off of this. But when the tv industry adopts this ranking, maybe it HAS jumped the shark.

It's obvious they are paying attention to the rankings and feedback. Why wouldn't some studio try to spin shifts in series as a "good" thing? Hollywood has always been about PR. This site is now part of that beast.