This kind of thing is why the "free culture" movement from when I was in college was so utterly unsuccessful at winning over the hearts and minds of the vast majority of working artistshttps://twitter.com/JoshuaYJackson/status/1244269783610265605 …
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The people who look like big successes on the Internet are making decent middle class livings, the people who look like decent mid-level successes are making no money at all and can't quit their day job, and the vast majority of people working aren't visible or successful at all
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And the response to this is "It's always been like this" and the response to that from a lot of people who lived through the transition from the 90s to the 2000s is "No it's objectively worse" Look at how many newspapers and magazines have closed
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Ask anyone about how "top-heavy" the culture industry has become - if you're not making a Marvel movie or a K-pop album owned by a giant corporation with an army of lawyers to protect your investment you're fucked
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A minor irony is that cruises were actually one of the really good ways to monetize your subculture
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I'd argue most of the standard merch out there isn't something you'd want to wear publicly whether ugly or too in-jokey discouraging support unintentionally, but also the right artists/designers are hard to find and an expensive gamble to support new IP's with.
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And merch can also be pirated! It's easy and it happens all the time!
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