User blog comment:Gabehas1/So Many Ads! D:/@comment-25459604-20160406011509/@comment-5138281-20160406121903

You thought wrong. Wikia is a free-to-use site, all ad revenue goes to Wikia so Wikia isn't shutdown. You can not make profit of having a Wikia.

A lot of the ads not covering the background of the site are other, trending Wikias, usually the same who apply to get their Wikia as one at the very bottom of a page.