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- Embed this notice@p @amerika @dcc @0 @eriner @istvan @viber @dj @FourOh-LLC @Hoss > but not a lot of people read Daily Kos or Mother Jones unless they are left of the typical democrat, not a lot of people read the Babylon Bee unless they're somewhat more conservative than a normie republican, because those are written for an audience of a specific type, and the readers that fit the mold are the ones that read.
Trust Me I'm Lying had a good point about the purpose of these websites: while they don't have the widest readership they have the most influential readership. In particular (since the book was circa 2012), he namedropped Gawker, Drudge Report (when he was still involved), Politico, Business Insider, HuffPost, and a few others throughout the book as such sites.
In particular, while they didn't have the largest readership, the readership was highly influential. The people reading these sites would be the sites the radio DJs and news anchors would repeat news stories from.
The same could be said about certain forums and internet communities that have influential people reading them, ranging the gamut from Kiwi Farms to SomethingAwful to whatever is left of imageboards to ResetEra (and before that NeoGAF).