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The Dire, Bullshit Economics of Twitch Creators

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Re: The Dire, Bullshit Economics of Twitch Creators

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Describing the shove sellers as LARPing content creation is very incisive. Funny how often the most successful are often selling "how to sell/create" or some fictional image of creation.

See also: * passive income folks whose business is to teach passive income * van lifers who earn by... selling the van life. Ultimately they're profiting on the difference between reality and people's wishful thinking.

I knew a guy ages ago who wrote blog posts and ebooks and gave talks, all about how to "get famous on the internet". He started making them back when no one had ever heard of him.

His Twitter bio even said "I got famous on the internet telling people how to get famous on the internet".

Re: The Dire, Bullshit Economics of Twitch Creators

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Damn. 0.117% of twitch streamers making even 15kUSD a year is rather bleak in terms of calling it a potential career.

It looks like a huge number to me. More than the percentage of people who play music making that money even, and music has been with us since the dawn of time, and has a huge industry. Twitch is just a streaming service.
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