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The Death of the Creator Middle Class

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Re: The Death of the Creator Middle Class

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Post by coldtea » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 9:43 AM UTC

pimlottc wrote: post #14

coldtea wrote: post #13

> AI competes with us for attention. And it changes the reader too. I wrote a whole piece on how AI isn’t replacing writers, it’s replacing readers. And yet this is itself AI text.

What makes you say that? It did not jump out as obviously AI generated to me.

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Re: The Death of the Creator Middle Class

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Post by no-name-here » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 11:59 AM UTC

OP article is a complete mess - per the article:

There are 7.5 times as many "full-time creators" now as 5 years ago in America. It then talks about median earnings - $3,000 per year. That would mean that >50% are earning $2xx per month. Probably not "full-time" in America. No source links, so I found them, but it seems to be measuring different populations:

* https://www.iab.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Measuring-the...

* https://www.creatoriq.com/blog/creator-compensation-report-h...

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