Anyone else sick of all the ads popping up all over this site lately?

Gotta pay for the site somehow. We have over 55K members, yet only a fraction of that pay to be gold members, so that doesn't pay for these sites all by itself. If you're not going to pay for a gold membership, it seems to me like the ads are a small price to pay for using the site for free.
RRR
Explain to me an illiterate old man individual, when it comes to this computer and internet world, what expense(s) are there to be paid to operate, run, a web site?
I dunno..
Can anyone explain the $$$$$ what expense there is, that someone like me can understand.
I paid the 50 bucks a year to have this "gold membership" and why do i have ads at the bottom of the page.
Guess it's a sneaky way, to gets ads onto the page.
Feeling that i got ripped off, paying the 50 bucks, from the get go, and got lied to.
I was gold on the B bodies site too, but dropped that at the end of a years time, as i just can't pay for that anymore, due to the economic situation that ones put into these days.