YouTube and Patreon Still Aren’t Paying the Rent for Most Creatives
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YouTube and Patreon Still Aren’t Paying the Rent for Most Creatives
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#2It's almost as if.. Doing stuff that you'd otherwise do in your spare-time, is not a real job for 99% of people ?
Yeah, I love playing and making games, nobody wants to play them, and nobody wants to watch me do it, because I'm not good enough at it. That's why I have a day job.
There's also a limited need for entertainers/creatives (they are needed, but not comparatively very many).. One person can entertain millions.
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#3Perhaps this is a good use case for NFT's, added signatures make it easy to find and reward the owner.
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#4Perhaps this is a good use case for NFT's, added signatures make it easy to find and reward the owner.
That's somewhat pointless if you wanted to reward the creator.
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#5Don't know about you lads but furry porn is booming right now. Gotta fit the needs of the market instead of your artistic needs
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#6Don't know about you lads but furry porn is booming right now. Gotta fit the needs of the market instead of your artistic needs
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#7The power law rules all things in the entertainment economy.
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#8Full article without the wall: https://outline.com/ktG6Xz
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#9Raise your hand if you’re the least bit surprised by this? Content creation is going to give a tiny number of people a high income for several years and everyone else almost nothing.
YouTube isn’t struggling with how to make these incomes more even any more than record labels are trying to make every artist have a nice, steady income. It’s a hits driven business.
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#10You know, in the old days, there were public broadcasters, like BBC (I am not English/American, so I don't know what the state of these is today). They balanced the commercial aspect of the media (somebody has to pay for the waves) with public access.
I think people should consider political initiative to have something like Youtube, but in public domain (with the same status as public broadcaster). Basically, the service would run on ads, but would be non-profit in the sense that the ads profits would be mostly returned to the creators on that platform, transparently and fairly.