DarkViperAU made a pretty decent series about a particular version of what you describe: reacters

Funnily enough, that’s also the situation with scientific journals. Scientists pay for their investigations and on top of that have to pay to the journal (if they are lucky enough to have their work accepted)

Mark Zuckerberg summarised this phenomenon really well:

They trust me…dumb fucks

Source: https://www.gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-users-dumb-fucks