You do realize that barely anyone reads online news, right? Hundreds of readers, the odd article getting thousands, is not enough to build an userbase of millions.
lol
TaunSew, do you think people are brain dead or something? People don't read?
Don't use dichotomies or strawmans it is a logical fallacy.
Reality is people don't read the news like they used to. Especially obscure internet news about cryptos which are hard to come by unless you know where to look for them.
People don't even watch YouTube videos like they used to. Most popular Bitcoin video on the internet is from the early 2010s and only has a few million views, while someone can post a brand new video in 2014 and get several million views in a week (Jenna Marbles is more popular than Bitcoin on YouTube).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjoBitcoin 6 million views over years while YouTube is full of rappers and attention whores who can get 6 million views in days.
Hmm, I guess you have a point there.