I don't think people realize this Your favorite obscure indie artist you found on Spotify makes *literally no money* from Spotify Like *literally* a few hundred bucks, max, for the sum total of all the time they've been on it
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I could be wrong, but I do not look at the life of a "content creator" online in the 21st century and feel much optimism Quite the reverse If you follow any of these individual scenes closely the drama over payment is constant and neverending (the YouTube "adpocalypse" etc)
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Which is why creators stopped caring about adverts and focused on communities and Patreons. A point I thought I'd made some time ago.
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This is extremely true; i am publishing-adjacent and the numbers are super fucking bad for authors. Basically NO authors make a living just from writing anymore.
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