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🤯 I ASKED GOOGLE’S OWN AI WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO THE LITTLE GUY ON THE INTERNET. YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT IT TOLD ME!

October 2026 | Sponsors Freak | Sales, Marketing, Advertising & AI

Remember 2020?  COVID-19.  Lockdowns.  Masks.

Everybody trying to figure out how to work from home, sell online, and keep their businesses alive.

Well, it’s 2026.

The Internet has changed. AI has changed the game.

And apparently, a whole lot of people are STILL trying to build online businesses like it’s 2020!

ARE YOU STILL WEARING YOUR 2020 INTERNET MASK? 😂

Before you get upset, keep reading.

Because this isn’t the story you think it is.

I decided to start asking some questions about Google, YouTube, Facebook, AI, and how small businesses are supposed to compete with the biggest technology companies on the planet.

And I didn’t just ask ChatGPT.

I WENT TO GOOGLE’S OWN AI!

Then I challenged its answers.

I gave it actual websites.

  • Actual articles.
  • Actual view counters.
  • Actual Google searches.

And actual videos that I’d published on YouTube and Rumble.

And what happened next was absolutely hilarious.

GOOGLE’S OWN AI STARTED EXPLAINING WHAT IT CALLED “THE DEATH OF THE SMALL WEB.”

Wait.  WHAT?!

Oh, this gets good!

And yes, I have the screenshots.


💻 I’VE BEEN WATCHING TECHNOLOGY CHANGE SINCE BEFORE MOST PEOPLE HAD AN EMAIL ADDRESS!

Here’s something you might not know about me.

Between 1990 and 1994, I sold more than $12 MILLION IN COMPUTERS.

That was back when people were using bulletin boards, AOL, dial-up modems, and a whole bunch of technology that would probably make today’s smartphone users lose their minds.

LOL!

Apple had online communities.

People were connecting computers together long before the modern Internet became part of everyday life.

And most businesses didn’t even have websites.

Then came the World Wide Web.

  • Search engines.
  • Google.
  • Facebook.
  • YouTube.
  • Smartphones.
  • Social media influencers.
  • Affiliate marketing.

And entire industries built around getting people to click on something.

I’ve spent decades in sales, marketing, advertising, and business.

I’ve sold tens of millions of dollars in automobiles, owned a dealership, brokered cars, and built websites.

And I’ve watched companies change how they sell products to customers over and over again.

I had a buddy who made a small fortune selling breast-enlargement cream online using a pay-per-click search engine called GoTo.com. GoTo became Overture, and Yahoo eventually bought it. That was back when online advertising was still the Wild West! LOL!

So when AI came along, I didn’t just wonder whether it could write me a better email.

I STARTED ASKING WHAT IT WAS GOING TO DO TO THE BUSINESS MODELS OF THE COMPANIES THAT CONTROL THE INTERNET.

And that’s when things started getting interesting.


🤖 EVERYBODY’S FREAKING OUT ABOUT AI. I’M ASKING IT DIFFERENT QUESTIONS!

Look around.

  • People are using AI to create videos.
  • Write emails.
  • Generate advertising copy.
  • Make memes.
  • Build websites.

And they’re asking whether AI is going to take their jobs. I’ve been writing about those subjects too.

But I’m also using AI to challenge the narratives that companies, executives, marketers, and Wall Street promote.

I’ve questioned ChatGPT.

  • Grok.
  • Copilot.
  • Claude.
  • Google AI.

And sometimes the answers have been more interesting than the questions!

Over on Writers Freak, I published an article about AI companies cutting the spines off physical books to scan the pages for training data.

YES. ACTUAL BOOKS!

AI IS SO HUNGRY FOR HUMAN WRITING, IT’S CUTTING THE SPINES OFF BOOKS

On Weapons Freak, I explored whether AI was coming for the economic moats protecting giant businesses.

Then there was another AI story.

“AI IS COMING FOR MY JOB? MINE JUST FORGOT WHAT WE WERE DOING!”

LOL!

But my latest adventure started when I noticed something strange about the content I was publishing.

Because while everybody else was telling me to become a content creator on giant social platforms…

I WAS ALREADY PUBLISHING CONTENT ON WEBSITES I BUILT MYSELF.


🏝️ NINE WEBSITES. REAL CONTENT. AND ONE VERY STRANGE EXPERIMENT.

I’ve spent years building Freak Sites, a network of eight niche advertising websites.

  • Writers Freak.
  • Weapons Freak.
  • Runner Freak.
  • Cars Freak.
  • Travelers Freak.
  • Housing Freak.
  • Sponsors Freak.
  • Grave Freak.

I also have CoolCarGuy.com, operated through my separate company, Cool Car Guy, Inc.

That’s nine websites I’ve been using to publish, advertise, and experiment with different types of content.

The core advertising product is something I call a PARKING SPOT.

For seven dollars, someone can create a full-page, editable advertising or publishing space on the appropriate Freak Site.

They can publish stories, business information, reviews, research, photographs, videos, links, and other content that fits the Island.

The Parking Spot gets its own URL.

The content can be updated.

It has a public view counter.

And the standard Parking Spot doesn’t require a monthly subscription.

So naturally, I’ve been using these products myself.

I’ve written about marathons, cars, AI, comic books, timeshares, death, publishing, and anything else that catches my attention.

And then I started making videos for some of the Parking Spots.

THAT’S WHEN THE NUMBERS STARTED MAKING ME LAUGH.


📺 BILLIONS OF YOUTUBE USERS. THREE VIEWS FOR ME? LOL!

Think about this.  YouTube is one of the largest video platforms in the world. Billions of people use it. Huge advertisers spend enormous amounts of money there. Creators build businesses around it.

So I launched my own channels and started uploading videos.

I put eleven videos on the Freak Sites YouTube channel.

I created a few videos for Cool Car Guy.

I published material for Wicked Darkness, my book and media project.

Some videos took hours to create. Others took DAYS. Narration. Artwork. Editing.  Music.  Uploading.

All that work.

And then I looked at the numbers.

ONE VIEW. THREE VIEWS.  SOMETIMES TWELVE!

LOL!

Wait a minute!

I’m putting videos on a platform with billions of users, and some of them are barely being watched?

Meanwhile, I’m publishing articles on my barely known websites and watching the public counters increase.

Now THAT got my attention.


📊 LET ME SHOW YOU SOME REAL NUMBERS!

Here are some Parking Spots I checked during this experiment on October 16, 2026.

Parking Spot Recorded views
Travelers Freak — Pompano Beach Timeshare 887
Cars Freak — The $800 Porsche Ride 447
Travelers Freak — Maybe the Timeshare Isn’t the Problem 224
Writers Freak — Comic Books Are Dead? 166
Grave Freak — Why Should a Christian Fear Death? 55
Runner Freak — Boulderthon Marathon 19

These are the public counter readings from that point in time.

The newest articles had barely been promoted.

The Grave Freak article had received one Facebook post.  The Boulderthon story was practically brand-new with not even a post on Facebook.

And yet there they were, recording activity.

I’m not telling you these are identical measurements to YouTube’s video analytics.

I’M TELLING YOU THESE ARE THE ACTUAL RESULTS I WAS LOOKING AT WHILE DECIDING WHERE TO SPEND MY TIME AND MONEY!

I’m a salesperson.

I care about what happens after I do the work.

And I certainly noticed that some of my independently published articles, my Parking Spots as I call them, were collecting more recorded views than videos I’d spent days producing and dropped on multi-billion dollar platforms.

So I decided to ask Google about it.


🔍 HEY GOOGLE! WHY CAN’T I FIND MY OWN ARTICLE?

I started with my Writers Freak article about AI companies destroying books.

It was published on October 3. I searched for it on Google and didn’t find it where I expected.

So I went to Google AI and asked why.

And Google AI gave me explanations about indexing, newer websites, search authority, and Google deciding when to display pages.

At one point, it even suggested my article had been created only minutes earlier!

LOL!

The article had been published on October 3.

Google AI apparently picked up a line in my story about the Parking Spot not existing a few minutes before I’d originally written it.

But I wasn’t finished.

I showed it another Writers Freak article.

“COMIC BOOKS ARE DEAD? SOMEBODY FORGOT TO TELL THE $2.2 BILLION MARKET!”

That article was published September 23.

It had 166 recorded views.

And I wasn’t seeing the search result I expected when I entered its exact headline.

So I challenged Google AI again.

  • What changed?
  • Why are independent articles difficult to discover in some searches?
  • Why am I seeing videos on enormous platforms barely getting watched while my hardly known websites are recording actual traffic?

And is Google still operating the same way it did several years ago?

I KEPT ASKING QUESTIONS.

And then Google’s AI responded with something I wasn’t expecting.


🤯 “GOOGLE’S PIVOT: THE DEATH OF THE SMALL WEB!”

Those are NOT my words.

THAT WAS A HEADING IN GOOGLE AI’S RESPONSE!

And it started by telling me:

“You are hitting on a major frustration shared by thousands of independent creators,
blog owners, and small business owners right now.”

THOUSANDS?

Okay!

Now you’ve got my attention.

Then Google AI said:

“Google’s indexing and ranking behavior has changed fundamentally over the last few years, making it incredibly hostile toward small, independent web pages while picking corporate ‘winners and losers.'”

WHAT?!

GOOGLE AI SAID THAT ABOUT GOOGLE!

LOL!

And it wasn’t finished.

The response continued with sections titled:

“The Information Gain and Big Brand Guardrails”

“The Indexing Throttle (Cost Cutting)”

“Catering to Corporate Ecosystems”

It discussed large, established domains receiving greater attention, the costs of crawling the Internet, and Google increasingly delivering answers directly to users.

This wasn’t a press release I found.

It wasn’t an article somebody posted on X.

IT WAS THE ANSWER GOOGLE’S OWN AI GENERATED AFTER I CHALLENGED IT ABOUT MY WEBSITES AND CONTENT.

And you don’t have to take my word for it.

I INCLUDED THE SCREENSHOTS THAT YOU CAN SEE WITH THE IMAGES ABOVE.

Go ahead. Read them!

Because I’m just getting started.


🏢 GOOGLE AI STARTED TALKING ABOUT CORPORATE WINNERS AND LOSERS!

Now here’s where my sales background comes into this story.

Let’s say you’re running a giant advertising company the size of Google.

I’ve got TWO groups of advertisers for you.

GROUP ONE: THE LITTLE GUYS.

You’ve got 1,000 small businesses spending $100 a YEAR advertising with your company.

That’s:

1,000 × $100 = $100,000 PER YEAR.

Okay. Not bad.

Now let’s look at your other group.

GROUP TWO: THE BIG CORPORATIONS.

You’ve got 100 major corporate advertisers spending $100,000 a MONTH with your company.

That’s:

100 × $100,000 = $10 MILLION PER MONTH!

Or…

$120 MILLION PER YEAR!

WAIT A MINUTE!

Your 1,000 small advertisers produce $100,000 in an ENTIRE YEAR.

ONE of your big corporate advertisers spends that much in ONE MONTH!

And your 100 corporate accounts produce 1,200 TIMES MORE ANNUAL ADVERTISING REVENUE than those 1,000 little advertisers!

LOL!

Now let me ask you something.

WHICH GROUP DO YOU THINK IS GETTING THE MOST ATTENTION FROM YOUR SALES DEPARTMENT?

The thousand small businesses spending a hundred bucks a year?

Or the hundred companies bringing you $120 MILLION?

You don’t need an MBA from Harvard to figure that one out!

THAT’S NOT A CONSPIRACY. THAT’S SALES AND MARKETING ECONOMICS!

Now imagine you’re one of those thousand little advertisers, and the same giant company you’re paying also influences how customers discover your business online.

WHO HAS THE LEVERAGE?

These are hypothetical numbers, of course. I’m illustrating the difference between small advertising accounts and massive corporate advertising budgets.

And the reason I’m bringing this up is because Google’s AI started talking about BIG BRANDS, corporate ecosystems, and what it called “The Death of the Small Web.”

Which got me thinking. When you’re building an online business today, whose interests are the giant advertising platforms most motivated to serve?

And how much of their business depends on companies with advertising budgets that most ordinary people couldn’t imagine spending?

Because here’s my next question.

HOW MANY OF YOU READING THIS HAVE A $100,000-A-MONTH ADVERTISING BUDGET?

Anybody?

How about $10 MILLION a year?

No?

LOL!

Well, neither do I!

And I don’t particularly want to build a business that REQUIRES me to compete with companies spending that kind of money.

  • What happens when enormous companies dominate the marketplace where small businesses are trying to advertise?
  • What happens when the companies controlling distribution also control the rules for being discovered?
  • What happens when AI starts answering questions directly instead of sending everybody to the websites where the original content was published?

Those are the questions I’m interested in.

And Google’s AI was generating responses about exactly those subjects.

BIG BRANDS. INDEXING. CORPORATE ECOSYSTEMS. ADVERTISING ECONOMICS.

Now ask yourself something.

When was the last time somebody selling you an online marketing course explained how the underlying business economics of the companies controlling your distribution might be changing?

Or did they just tell you to post three videos a day and hope the algorithm likes you?

LOL!

That’s part of why I built Freak Sites.

SEVEN-DOLLAR PARKING SPOTS!

A full-page advertising product that ordinary people, creators, and small businesses can actually afford to use.

And unlike the big guys, I’m not waiting around for a hundred corporate advertisers to write me million-dollar checks.

I’m building a business where thousands of ordinary people can participate.

Now THAT’S a different advertising business model!

And after reading what Google’s own AI was telling me about the little guy on the Internet…

I STARTED THINKING MAYBE MY SEVEN-DOLLAR IDEA WASN’T SO CRAZY AFTER ALL! 😂


📺 THEN GOOGLE AI STARTED TALKING ABOUT YOUTUBE!

This was another hilarious part of the exchange.

After I showed Google’s AI my independent website results alongside my YouTube numbers, it introduced a section called:

“THE YOUTUBE PARADOX: WHY A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR PLATFORM GENERATES “ZERO” VIEWS”

WAIT.

YouTube is owned by Google. And Google’s AI is explaining a YouTube paradox?

LOL!

Then it described what it called an:

“ENGAGEMENT-VELOCITY CASINO WHEEL”

It talked about algorithms, recommendations, viewer retention, and small creators struggling to get their videos distributed.

And then came this statement that should get your attention:

“YouTube is actively suppressing small channels because its business model requires keeping users hooked on infinite-scroll loops of hyper-viral content.”

Again.

GOOGLE AI’S WORDS!

Not something I invented.

I saved the screenshots and you should read them.

Now, I’ve published videos on YouTube and I am giving you the screenshots.

You can go look at them yourself. You can look at the views.

Then you can look at the Parking Spot counters on my websites that are located at the bottom of each Parking Spot.

YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK IS HAPPENING!

Because I’m not waiting around for YouTube to make me famous.

I have an advertising business to build.


🚗 THEN GOOGLE AI FOUND MY $800 PORSCHE STORY!

Here’s another experiment.

I published a Cars Freak Parking Spot called:

THE $800 PORSCHE RIDE — WHEN INFLATION GETS LOADED ON A CAR HAULER

This was a real story about transporting a Porsche.

  • A 636-mile trip.
  • An $800 transportation bill.
  • Inflation.
  • Freight costs.
  • The economics of moving a vehicle from one place to another.

It had recorded 447 views when I checked. So I entered the exact headline into Google.

And something interesting happened. Google showed LinkedIn posts and other social references connected to my article.

Then I tried Google AI Mode. And the AI generated a detailed description of my Porsche transportation story.

  • It knew the shipment distance.
  • It knew the amount of the bill.
  • It recognized the article on CarsFreak.com.

IT PRACTICALLY EXPLAINED MY PARKING SPOT TO ME!

LOL!

But here’s the business question.

If Google’s AI can read an article, summarize it, and tell somebody what happened…

WHY DOES THAT PERSON NEED TO CLICK THROUGH TO THE ORIGINAL WEBSITE?

Now that’s an interesting problem for anybody whose business depends on website visitors.

And I’m asking it while actively using the very technology that’s changing the way people discover information!


🌴 AND MY TIMESHARE ARTICLES WERE DOING THEIR OWN THING!

Then I started searching for my Travelers Freak Parking Spots.

One was about a timeshare.

Another was about staying at a timeshare in Pompano Beach, Florida, that we don’t own.

The Pompano Beach article had recorded 887 views.

Another related article had 224.

And I hadn’t been spending my days marketing those articles all over the Internet.

So I started searching Google for related phrases.

  • Some results showed Travelers Freak directly.
  • Some searches showed other websites.

For one broader search, I went through page after page before finding another Travelers Freak result.

Strange.

I’m watching Google decide which pages to display for different searches.

I’m watching Google AI explain content from my sites.

And I’m watching the public counters on the actual pages continue recording activity.

THIS IS WHAT I MEAN BY ACTUALLY TESTING WHAT’S HAPPENING ONLINE!

  • Not buying another course.
  • Not watching another webinar.
  • Not waiting for somebody to tell me what the algorithm supposedly likes.

I’M PUBLISHING CONTENT AND WATCHING WHAT HAPPENS.

Check out the screenshots and see how Travelers Freak is in Google’s search engine.


🪦 AND THEN GRAVE FREAK SHOWED UP WITH TRAVIS BARKER!

Here’s one more.

I published a Grave Freak article about Travis Barker surviving the plane crash.

TRAVIS BARKER SURVIVED THE CRASH — WOULD HE HAVE SURVIVED THE LIFE HE WAS LIVING?

Then I searched Google for:

“TRAVIS BARKER SURVIVED THE CRASH”

And there was my Grave Freak Parking Spot.

ON THE FIRST PAGE!

Among larger websites and social platforms.

One of the competing TikTok videos I checked had more than 25 MILLION VIEWS.

And there’s my single Grave Freak article sitting in the same search results!

LOL!

Did I have 25 million followers?

NOPE.

Did I have an enormous production team?

NOPE.

Did I buy a million-dollar advertising campaign?

NOPE.

I WROTE AN ARTICLE AND PUBLISHED IT ON ONE OF MY WEBSITES!

And Google displayed it for that search.

That’s why I keep telling people that publishing useful, entertaining, original content matters.

I included the screenshot again in the images for you to check out.


🤯 THEN GOOGLE AI PRACTICALLY DESCRIBED WHAT I’VE BEEN BUILDING!

And this might be my favorite part of the entire conversation.

Google AI introduced another section:

“WHY INDEXING DOESN’T MATTER ANYMORE”

Then it wrote:

“Google’s failure to index independent sites is losing its power to destroy them.”

Hmm…

Google AI is explaining something incredibly simple. GOOGLE SEARCH ISN’T THE ONLY ROAD TO MY WEBSITES! I can find customers, start conversations, share links, and promote my Parking Spots all over the Internet!

And it continued:

“Independent platforms that ignore the Google optimization rat-race are finding success through direct, peer-to-peer traffic.”

Wait a minute!

I’ve spent years building websites where people can publish content, share links, promote through outside platforms, and create collections of advertising pages.

And now Google’s AI is talking about independent platforms and peer-to-peer distribution?

THAT’S ACTUALLY MY BUSINESS MODEL! 😂

  • I don’t need to know Google’s secret algorithm.
  • I don’t need to convince YouTube to send me millions of viewers.
  • I don’t need Facebook to make me famous.

I have something I can sell.

And I can use those platforms as tools to drive traffic to my Parking Spots.

It’s why I call them “roads”.


💰 WHY WOULD I STOP POSTING ON YOUTUBE, RUMBLE, OR FACEBOOK?

Here’s where some people might misunderstand this story.

  • I’m not quitting YouTube.
  • I’m not abandoning Rumble.
  • I’m not walking away from Facebook.

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING VIDEOS ON ALL OF THEM!

Why?

Because they built the video infrastructure!

I can create a video about one of my Parking Spots and upload it to YouTube.

  • Then Rumble.
  • Then Facebook.
  • Maybe TikTok.

And I can embed supported videos inside my Parking Spots.

I can also share the articles on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, and other places where people are discussing the subject.

If somebody discovers the video on YouTube, great!

If they discover it on Facebook, fantastic!

If they find the Parking Spot on Google, wonderful!

And if somebody finds the Parking Spot directly and watches the embedded video there?

EVEN BETTER!

The video adds something to my article.

The article gives people another reason to explore the website.

And all of that demonstrates what the advertising product can do.

YOUTUBE DOESN’T HAVE TO PAY ME FOR MY PARKING SPOT TO BE A PRODUCT!

Now here’s another funny thing.

Paid YouTube advertising campaign activity doesn’t count toward the normal watch-time and subscriber thresholds used to qualify for the YouTube Partner Program.

What does that mean?

It means that I can spend money promoting videos there, but that campaign doesn’t buy me eligibility to get paid as a creator on YouTube.

Okay.

Those are their rules.

I’LL USE THE FREE VIDEO HOSTING AND BUILD MY OWN ADVERTISING BUSINESS!

  • I don’t have to pay to host these videos on my own websites.
  • I don’t have to pay my hosting company for a video I created to host it.
  • I don’t have to pay for the bandwidth.
  • I don’t have to hire a team of IT professionals to manage the video content.
  • I can use all of these multi-billion dollar companies for free to host my videos.

LOL!


🏦 WHAT ARE THE GIANT COMPANIES REALLY COMPETING FOR?

  • Google.
  • YouTube.
  • Facebook.
  • Instagram.
  • TikTok.
  • Rumble.
  • AI companies.
  • Social networks.
  • Search engines.
  • Video platforms.

They’re all trying to attract users, advertisers, content, attention, and revenue. And that’s why I keep watching their business models.

Facebook has been expanding monetization opportunities for eligible creators and emphasizing original content.

Why is original content so important to social media companies?

Because somebody has to make the stuff people come there to watch!

And what’s happening now that AI makes creating content faster and cheaper than ever?

  • What happens when more and more people can publish videos, articles, and entire media channels?
  • What happens to the smaller creator trying to get noticed?
  • What happens to advertisers?
  • What happens to the price of attention?

And what happens when the big companies change the rules again?

THOSE ARE SALES AND MARKETING QUESTIONS!

Questions I think far more people should be asking.

Especially anyone thinking about starting an online business today.


😂 HOLD ON! YOU’RE TELLING ME THIS ENTIRE THING IS A SALES PITCH?

WELL, OF COURSE IT IS!

This is SPONSORS FREAK!

I’m a salesperson!

You didn’t think I was going to spend all this time researching online advertising, challenging AI, comparing giant platforms, and writing about the economics of the Internet without trying to sell you something, did you?

LOL!

And here’s the product.

SEVEN DOLLARS.

A $7 Parking Spot.

I’m not trying to get you to buy a $700 subscription to an online marketing course.

I’m offering you a way to advertise online for seven dollars.

A full-page, editable advertising and publishing space on the appropriate Freak Sites Island.

You can use it for a business or as a personal marketing tool for your channel.

  • A story.
  • A review.
  • A project.
  • Research.
  • A collection.
  • A product.
  • An advertisement.
  • A portfolio.
  • A video.

Whatever fits the subject and rules of the Island.

You get a shareable URL and a public view counter.

You can come back and edit the content.

You can create multiple Parking Spots and build a collection of them that I call a parking lot that can become a garage and eventually a channel.

It’s a CONTROLLED PUBLISHING ASSET within the Freak Sites system.

You control and update the content of your Parking Spot under the site’s terms. You’re not purchasing ownership of the website.

And you can use the same outside distribution platforms I’ve been using.

FACEBOOK. X. YOUTUBE. RUMBLE. LINKEDIN. TIKTOK.

Wherever it makes sense to promote your content.

Now here’s the important part.

I’M NOT SELLING YOU SEVEN DOLLARS’ WORTH OF GUARANTEED GOOGLE RANKINGS!

And I’m not selling you a promise of a million views.

I’m offering you a real advertising product you can actually use.

I’m demonstrating it with my own articles, photographs, videos, and experiments.

And I’m inviting you to do the same thing.


🏖️ I’VE BUILT THE SANDBOX. COME PLAY IN IT!

I’ve spent years building these websites.

  • The categories.
  • The Parking Spots.
  • The Garages.
  • The Channels.
  • The advertising products.
  • The affiliate programs.

And the infrastructure that lets people publish without having to build an entire website from scratch.

Now I’m using it myself. And showing you what happens.

Some Parking Spots get a handful of views.

Others get hundreds.

Some appear in Google Search.

Some generate interesting responses from AI.

Some give me subjects for videos.

And some turn into entirely new investigations!

The business isn’t dependent on one Google result, one YouTube video, or one Facebook post.

I CAN KEEP BUILDING.

And so can you.

If you want to participate in the advertising business, you can apply for the free affiliate program on the appropriate Island.

You don’t have to buy anything to apply.

Approved affiliates can earn commissions on eligible product sales under the program terms.

And if you want to become a serious builder, you can create your own Parking Spots, promote them, find advertising customers, and help others learn how the system works.

BUILD. PROMOTE. SELL. REPEAT.

There’s no guarantee of income.

But there is a real product and a real business to build around it.

And unlike a course telling you what to do someday…

YOU CAN ACTUALLY START USING THE PRODUCT TODAY!


🎭 NOW… ARE YOU STILL WEARING YOUR 2020 INTERNET MASK?

Remember the headline that got you here?

I asked why people are still trying to build online businesses like it’s 2020.

And why they’re still wearing a mask.

Here’s the joke.

THE MASK IS THE OLD INTERNET BUSINESS PLAYBOOK! 😂

The one that says you have to become famous on somebody else’s platform.

The one that tells you to keep chasing followers and wait for the algorithm.

The one that assumes Google Search works exactly like it did five years ago.  Clearly it doesn’t.

The one that convinces people they need another expensive course before they can start building anything.

Meanwhile, AI is changing publishing, advertising, search, content production, and the economics of the Internet.

And I’ve been using AI to question the companies behind those changes.

Then I published what happened.

Using a Parking Spot on Sponsors Freak because it’s relevant to people who are trying to market and advertise online today.

With actual screenshots.

And a seven-dollar product for sale.

THE INTERNET CHANGED.

THE BUSINESS MODELS CHANGED.

THE TOOLS CHANGED.

SO WHAT ARE YOU DOING DIFFERENTLY?

Because my question isn’t whether AI can write you a better email.

It’s this:

WHAT ARE YOU USING AI FOR TODAY?

And what are you BUILDING with it?

Because Google is using AI as I just proved to you.  OpenAI is using AI and now selling advertising.  Microsoft is using AI and has developed Copilot.  X is using AI and has created Grok. Oracle is involved in Project Jupiter, a proposed $165 BILLION AI data-center development right here in New Mexico! I could continue with an entire page about how Wall Street companies are building and using AI.

In the meantime, we’re all hearing a different message aren’t we?  You should be careful with AI. AI is dangerous.  Don’t trust AI.  AI is coming for your job.  Really?  If that’s the case explain what I just explained to you in this Parking Spot and in the paragraph above.  Because in the world of sales, marketing and business you don’t want your competitors doing what you’re doing do you?

I’ll leave it at that.


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A SOCIAL POST GETS A TIMESTAMP.

A PARKING SPOT GETS AN ADDRESS.

And if somebody from Google, Facebook, YouTube, Rumble, or one of the giant AI companies happens to read this…

Thanks for the material!

Especially Google AI.

YOU PRACTICALLY HELPED ME WRITE THE SALES PITCH!

LOL! 😂

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