I cant speak for the same thing with jokes
but something similar is negativity can get easy traffic.
You would be surprised how often people search things like
"f**k *insert famous person name*"
purely because they want to read opinions from someone who feels the same way.
Most of the time forums will rank for these terms as that is where most people
would put their opinions like this but it is very easy to write a critical article
and outrank everything for that term depending on how famous the person is.
Thousands of actors exist, along with thousands of haters, endless keywords being born
and lost.
People also love to repost your critical articles on forums etc so you end up with people
basically building backlinks for you.
This is one of the few sort of non evergreen niches/ articles ive seen do well with low competition
This doesnt even need to be people, it can be companies too.
Now obviously you run the risk of legal action if you ever spread false information but
the traffic generation is so easy it is a little crazy.
Had a friend from India (im from usa) make a site like this and
was doing well for himself just based on this, and even better when he launched
merch.................. yes, people buy merch about things they hate
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(these are not his im just showing examples how how merch in niches like this can look).
Like, he could support his whole family for 3 years on just the money he made selling political merch in
one month. (not regular political merch, the harder hate stuff that you usually cant even advertise much places
F**K *insert political name*).
Articles on hate about something have very high engagement as you are getting readers who already agree with the point of the
article before they even find it.
TLDR:
I personally think both Humor and Hate have odd ways of driving up SEO gains.
(also im not suggesting people should make hate sites, im just putting it out there as I felt it was relevant to this in a way).
