Who was the absolute genius who thought shutting Yahoo Answers down was a good idea?

VERIZON,

 but we are making a Protest to save Yahoo Answers from getting shutdown and join the discord server https://discord.gg/ZCdkDw53

 it’s called The Rebellion to Save Yahoo Answers so what your gonna do is go to Yahoo Answers Administrator and spam WE WANT YAHOO ANSWERS SHOULD STAY AND SHOULD NOT GET TAKEN DOWN IT IS HISTORY AND PEOPLE WORKED HARD TO GET ON THE RANKS.

I saw it mentioned already, but similarworlds is a pretty good alternative

same thing exists on Similar Worlds, it's pretty chill there. There are also deep stories and stuff, it's a great place for socializing and venting.

Verizon did they decided it was not worth keeping this site around 

Nowhere. But that's the answer as to why as well.

Mr. Yahoo also known as the Board of Directors 

Biden Administration,  too many posts are anti-Biden, or Pro-Trump.

Removal of them requires too much time from Expensive staff.