Interesting, however I tend to disagree. Although these sites have been good means of organizing, the corporate overlords had to know that alternatives would quickly replace them if they burned them down. Seems more likely that they are desperately trying to monetize these sites, but just way too out of touch with how hard us working class plebes are being squeezed from every angle and literally can't afford to pay for the most basic form of entertainment like this. Literally, I can hardly leave my house without paying something to exist in a public space. I'll be damned if I pay more than I already do (a device, internet, electricity) to exist in public online spaces.

"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

but then intentionally cut off a primary source of profit??

It might just show that advertisement was the much bigger source for money.