What the new tech creator-content platforms and economy miss

Adam Neely on "quitting #youtube " puts two ideas together (that I hadn’t) and implicitly asks “what if the new platform/economy fails you”

Longevity and freedom from traditional gatekeepers. The content-creator economy fails on these promises.

Burn out is baked in and ignoring the traditional gate-keepers is at your own very serious risk.

The world is the same, tech is just milking us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceZ8VS8PbQ

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  • Mariya Delano@hachyderm.io
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    8 months ago

    @maegul @workreform these online platforms have made it extremely easy to accidentally attract a large enough following that it can get monetized. But when you remove that much friction - you get people with large audiences who have no idea what to do with them. They don’t actually understand why their following is valuable and so they cannot control the value.

    And a lot of them don’t want to learn the difficult business aspects of their own work… so they keep outsourcing it to algorithms