holiday hypothesis for you to mull re: Patreon... aggregation is “bad” if all you’re doing is aggregating an audience with cultural curation and no real tech leverage. Bad in the sense of leading to toxic cultural dynamics. Either aggregate with tech or not at all.
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do we need aggregation theory for this? or just theory around strength-of-communication channels and relative ease to mobilize mobs?
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Maybe a cultural-aggregation theory. Rent-a-mob. A crowd which owns its creators is basically a stable echo chamber of mutual reinforcement. It's a thing worth owning, but there's a cultural cost to extracting a rent from it. It's a pump to extract trust from commons.
like the crowd-that-owns-the-creator piece -- sounds like argument is there's a "market" emerging for cultural agitators same way there's a market for CNN talking heads -- increased liquidity in this market sort of like increased liquidity in crowdfunding 3rd-world-militias?
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so more mob-renting-a-leader than leader-renting-a-mob
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