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• Ultimate Disney originally consisted of simple lists detailing which Disney movies became available on DVD, and in what collections. Later, the website also contained reviews of some of the DVDs. It also gained a forum for discussing Disney titles of the past, present, and future, as well as some miscellaneous topics. However, when Disney started releasing fewer of their titles on DVD, Ultimate Disney registered an alternate domain, "DVDizzy", for hosting reviews of other studios' movies and shows. All of Ultimate Disney's content absorbed into DVDizzy after a few years. Additionally, frequency of coverage of Disney-owned movies and TV shows eventually decreased in favor of other studios' works. DVDizzy reviews of movies still in theaters also became progressively more common over the years, usurping DVD reviews as the site's main feature. Despite all this, ultimatedisney still redirects to dvdizzy, and the Disney-themed part of the forum still has a spot on the top of its index page.
• 4chan was intended to be a place to discuss Japanese comics and anime, an American counterpart to the popular Japanese Futaba Channel ("2chan") imageboard. However, these days many consider it to be more of a meme and trolling site due in thanks to the infamous /b/ board. It is not uncommon for a fan of anime and other Japanese media  and with the stuff that goes on there, who would blame them? They still have plenty of discussions about Anime and Manga, and an untold amount of Anime memes have originated from here.
• Perhaps the largest sign of this decay is that anywhere outside of the very specific anime & manga board (which used to be renamed "Animu & Mango" at one point), admitting to watching anime, ever, is enough to get you trolled into oblivion and back again. It's not even guaranteed that won't happen to you on the anime board.
• Cracked revived the name of an old comedy magazine and got much internet attention out of humourous list articles, "Photoplasty" contests of image manipulations, comedic analyses of certain subjects and downright Journalism pieces. Even using serious subjects through guest writers' life stories still made for entertainment. One could argue the decay started with "Pictofacts", 'true fact' Photoplasties that amount to posting some fact over a picture, at times recycled from other Cracked articles. But more could be said on becoming less comedy-oriented, with articles reading more as opinion pieces or philosophical treatises and a bigger focus on politics (bordering  around the 2016 election). Two unequivocal downturns are mass dimissals in 2017 (after the site was sold to Scripps) and in 2020 (Literally Media bought the site), the latter also leading to shutdowns of the podcast, the forums, and the comment section. They still put out two old-style articles a day, but you're likely to miss those among all the pictofacts on various subjects, news stories turned into quick-read articles and rehashes of old articles done as a series of macros.
• MySpace resorted to a Retool in Fall 2010 due to fewer and fewer people using the site, having lost most of them to Facebook. The new CEO proclaimed that MySpace is no longer a social network, but "Social Entertainment", revamping itself into an entertainment site and alienating the few people who still used the site. This included a new logo, new homepage and a new profile layout. They were about to force everyone to upgrade their profiles to the new layout (though considering how many MySpace sites were considered ugly, this was considered an improvement) when They Changed It, Now It Sucks! caused them to allow users to change their profiles back to how they originally looked, glitter GIFs and all. This still hasn't stopped people from abandoning the site.
• Wattpad is a social networking site meant for publishing online literature, in a serious fashion. It has also become a host to lots of Fanfiction and, thanks to its multimedia features, even text/art dumps similar to that of Livejournal and Tumblr. Wattpad still shows off itself as an online literature host site, displaying such on its homepage, hosting annual awards for them, and even allowing their popular ones to be commercialized.
• WorldStarHipHop's initial purpose can be seen in its name: hosting videos by underground rap artists and giving them exposure. However, hackers brought the site down in its early days, and when it returned, it had expanded to hosting videos of rappers beefing with one another, Eventually, it became truly famous for hosting videos of fights, to the point where Wikipedia describes it as a Shock Site. While it still tries to keep to its original purpose of hosting rap videos, it's become better known as the black version of 4chan.
• Know Your Meme used to document only memes and how they came about, then it enlarged its scope to internet celebrities, TV series, anime, cartoons and basically everything that can generate massive fandoms and heaps of user-generated content. Then it started to include current events and the reactions to them, including pretty serious stuff 
• Movie Mistakes started to incorporate Bloopers from television productions, as well as giving space for trivia and quotes.
• Netflix was founded as a DVD mail rental by a guy fed up with Blockbuster Video's rental fees. But as the cultural landscape of The New '10s and beyond would show, the site would all but abandon the DVD division. As more and more titles in people's queues slipped from "short wait" to "very long wait" to finally all the way into "saved" category (meaning the site definitely no longer has the disc), the site focused more and more on streaming.
• Snopes started out as a website devoted to examining the veracity of popular Urban Legends and seeing if there was any underlying truth to them. Initially, they focused on old wives' tales, chain letters, and celebrity rumors, The rise of more political urban legends in the social media age, however, forced them to expand their purview to confirming or (often) debunking them as well, especially as they'd long since gone over most of the 'classic' urban legends. Today, while Snopes still maintains full, detailed archives of all the urban legends they've covered, they're better known as a political fact-checker and 'fake news' debunker.
• YouTube was originally meant to be a medium for people to broadcast self-made videos (hence the motto, "Broadcast Yourself"). Then people started uploading copyrighted material so that others could watch their favorite shows and movies anywhere without the hassle of commercials or having to buy the DVD. Today, it seems most people go to YouTube for mostly clips or episodes of mainstream commercial shows, while the site deals with lawsuits.

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