SiliconSnark 2025 Wrapped: How a Snarky Tech News Site Accidentally Won the Internet

I launched SiliconSnark in February 2025, which—according to tech startup lore—means it’s still supposed to be a scrappy experiment, a side project, or something I casually mention as “early.” Instead, it immediately turned into an all-consuming commitment to documenting tech absolutely vibing, without adult supervision.

In under a year, SiliconSnark went from “this is a funny idea” to “why are founders forwarding this to each other at 2 a.m.” It published relentlessly, went accidentally viral, earned real SEO authority (somehow), launched a meme coin (of course), and attracted an audience that actually reads—an outcome most venture-backed media companies would happily raise a Series B to achieve.

In short: it’s been an incredible first year, if by incredible you mean productive, chaotic, lightly unhinged, and deeply validating in the most internet-native way possible. Here are the highlights!

Nearly 400 Articles (Yes, Really)

Let’s get the big, irresponsible number out of the way first: nearly 400 articles.
That’s not a typo, hallucination, or optimistic founder math. That’s hundreds of posts shipped into the internet—some carefully reported, some aggressively satirical, all united by a single editorial thesis: the tech industry desperately needs to be laughed at, preferably daily.

SiliconSnark didn’t just publish “when inspired.” It published when the news cycle collapsed, when valuations stopped making sense, and when AI announcements started reading like Mad Libs. In many cases, the articles existed because no one else was saying the quiet part out loud—or because everyone was saying it with a straight face, which felt worse.

At nearly 400 pieces, SiliconSnark accidentally became an archive of modern tech absurdity: funding rounds that made sense for 48 hours, rebrands that solved nothing, demos that promised everything, and corporate statements that deserved footnotes written entirely in sarcasm.

10,000 Active Users

Let’s address this one head-on: 10,000 active users.

Some people—usually the same ones who start Medium posts with “Unpopular opinion”—might say this number is “small.” To which SiliconSnark responds: hahaha.

These aren’t passive impressions or accidental scroll-bys. These are people who actively choose to read satire about tech, regularly, in a media environment optimized to distract them every six seconds. Ten thousand humans who could be doing literally anything else—but instead come here to watch the industry get roasted with footnotes.

In a world where “audience” is often inflated by bots, giveaways, and paid traffic, 10,000 active users who show up on purpose is not small. It’s dense. It’s opinionated. It’s the kind of audience founders fear and PR teams quietly monitor.

Quality over quantity is usually a cliché. Here, it’s just accurate.

40 Hours of People Watching a Snarky Robot

Then there’s the YouTube shorts. Specifically: 40 hours of collective human life spent watching 10–15 second SiliconSnark clips.

That number is funny for two reasons. First, no one should be spending that much time watching a robot with pixelated sunglasses roast tech news at warp speed. Second, the math implies people didn’t just watch one and leave—they looped, replayed, and definitely sent it to a group chat with the caption: “this is you.”

These shorts weren’t designed to be “content.” They were designed to be interruptions—fast, animated micro-rants that compress an entire news cycle into a punchline before your brain can object. No intros. No context-setting. No mercy. Just headline → snark → exit.

Somewhere in those 40 hours is the purest expression of SiliconSnark’s philosophy: if tech insists on speaking in buzzwords, it’s going to get answered in glitches, shrugs, and jokes that land faster than the algorithm can blink.

Accidentally Winning at SEO (Against All Logic)

Somehow—against every content marketing rule, growth playbook, and LinkedIn thread—SiliconSnark also achieved an average SEMrush authority score that looks like it belongs to a “real” publication.

Even more absurd: over 100 backlinks, all organic. No link-building campaigns. No cold emails. No “just circling back.” Just other sites voluntarily linking to satire because it explained the story better than the original source.

This is not how SEO is supposed to work. Satire is not supposed to rank. It’s not supposed to accrue authority. And it’s definitely not supposed to earn backlinks without trying. And yet Google looked at SiliconSnark and said, “Unfortunately… this is useful.”

Going Viral (Yes, the Meme Coin Happened)

No wrapped would be complete without acknowledging the moment SiliconSnark crossed the Rubicon: the meme coin launch.

Every satire brand eventually faces the same question: Do we joke about this, or do we do it? SiliconSnark chose chaos. The meme coin wasn’t a pivot—it was a punchline with liquidity. A commentary on financialization that immediately became financialized. A joke that required a wallet.

And yes, it went viral. Because nothing spreads faster than irony with on-chain receipts. The launch wasn’t about long-term value—it was about exposing how quickly attention becomes assets, memes become markets, and satire becomes participation the moment a ticker exists.

Becoming a Filter for Tech Absurdity

Somewhere between the articles, the users, the shorts, the backlinks, and the coin, SiliconSnark quietly became something else: a filter.

Founders read it to see how their announcements might actually land. Employees share it because it says what Slack won’t. PR teams skim it nervously. Investors pretend they haven’t seen it (they have).

There’s a strange trust that forms when satire is consistent and informed. SiliconSnark isn’t trying to be cruel—it’s trying to be accurate, just without the press-release voice. In a year where AI blurred authorship, valuations blurred logic, and timelines blurred sanity, that clarity mattered.

What This Year Actually Proved

SiliconSnark is no longer an experiment. It’s a habit—for the writer, for the readers, and apparently for the algorithm.

It proved that satire scales when it ships. That speed beats perfection. That honesty beats polish. And that the joke often lands closer to the truth than the headline ever could.

Nearly 400 articles.
10,000 active users (hahaha).
40 hours of shorts.
An authority score that shouldn’t exist.
100+ organic backlinks.
One viral meme coin.
Countless eye-rolls.

Thanks for reading. Thanks for watching. Thanks for linking. And thanks for proving—once again—that in tech, the joke is still the most honest form of analysis available.