Daniel Avery
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In my experience, it seems that internet sites that used to cater to all soaps have evolved/fractured into sites that favor one soap or another, allowing fans of each soap places for them to focus on that one show. So instead of a soap lover looking for a General Soaps site to look for discussions, they might look for a Days site or a Y&R site, sites which would have less overall traffic but would have more frequent visits from the members. The level of coverage various sites give to each soap might be geared to analysis of their traffic---it's all about ads on so many of the larger sites. The result is that Y&R fans (and other fans of the others) gravitate toward one another and just talk among themselves in places like Facebook pages, Twitter sites, and such which are dedicated to their show rather than interacting with fans of the other shows in larger places.
One soap news site I frequent (Daytime Confidential) has more coverage of General Hospital (casting news, synopses, spoilers, etc.) than the other three soaps combined. I don't think it was an intentional shift, but this sort of thing snowballs over time, and nothing is being done to try to correct it from what I can tell. If that site gets more "hits" from GH stories than Y&R stories or B&B stories, then they will continue to provide more GH stories in order to make more ad revenue. Fans of Y&R, B&B and Days simply find other sites that favor "their" soap elsewhere. I'm sure there are Y&R-centered sites out there that basically ignore GH.
Soap Opera Digest, as a website and the now-defunct magazine, was overwhelmingly biased toward coverage of Days of Our Lives even as it claimed (or still claims) to be objective and seeks to cover all soaps equally.
One soap news site I frequent (Daytime Confidential) has more coverage of General Hospital (casting news, synopses, spoilers, etc.) than the other three soaps combined. I don't think it was an intentional shift, but this sort of thing snowballs over time, and nothing is being done to try to correct it from what I can tell. If that site gets more "hits" from GH stories than Y&R stories or B&B stories, then they will continue to provide more GH stories in order to make more ad revenue. Fans of Y&R, B&B and Days simply find other sites that favor "their" soap elsewhere. I'm sure there are Y&R-centered sites out there that basically ignore GH.