Forbes has been flogging their brand name now through their "contributer system." It's THE way for scammers and grifters to get a puff piece about themselves written under a supposedly mainstream brand

i think even before this their ad model targeted whales so they were always effectively in the market of selling rich people to each other one at a time this is also CNBC's model

i got hugely weird about CNBC ads once. they were for non public companies that didn't sell to consumers of any kind. like, small b2b company with half a dozen important clients, maybe. who is the ad for? and the answer is investors. specifically they probably had a specific guy they were after

like. you find out marc cuban or equivalent watches cnbc during lunch so you run an ad for your company during the lunch hour. just an absolutely insane business model to be selling that primarily

Wait this is like how companies/PACs would run ads or specifically pitch something on Fox during the times Trump was most likely to watch lmao