It’s not all black and white though. People in the 2000’s didn’t know that you can make a living off content creation, but people who have adopted this style usually can and will (or should) turn more effort into creating high quality videos.
Isn’t that exactly the point of the meme? Internet 20 years ago was about sharing mostly. Internet today is about monetization mostly. And content quality isn’t what makes you big, it’s your ability to game/abuse the system
The point of the meme is “How dare creators expect any sort of compensation for their work!? No ads! No subscriptions! Give it to us for the ‘exposure’!”
I don’t think most people have an issue with compensation for good content, it’s just there are not a lot of monetization schemes that support this. So what you get instead of quality content is stuff like 40 minute video tutorials with 5 ad breaks about a subject that could have been explained in 5 minutes. That’s also why people tend to put reddit at the end of a google search because chances are good you find a simple post with the exact information you need instead of all the blog sites that explain the same shit in only 5003937352729 words with 300 ads inbetween that show up at the first result page because they game the seo system.
I’m very aware of the problems with weak-effort content on the Internet, and if the first half wasn’t “Cool guy pays to give away content for free”, yeah, that might be it. It’s pretty clearly not OPs intent, though.
The system is far from perfect, but that people can now subsidize their income or replace it entirely with content creation is not a bad thing. People deserve to be compensated for their work, whether that work is for a corporation or for an audience of fans.
“High quality” can come in the form of investing time into research, or creating visual aids that present information clearly. But it also often manifests as flashy title cards, pointless special effects, derivative humor (like frenzied jump cuts to movie clips and memes every few seconds), unnecessarily rambling intros, superfluous wall-to-wall music. I feel like many of these features are borrowed over from classical TV, to give the veneer of a highly produced “professional” product, when democratized internet media’s greatest strength is to actually free us from these conventions.
Yeah can’t argue about that. Unfortunately there are numerous amount of livelihood content creators who are making these clickbaity, mind numbing videos like ssniperwolf.
It’s not all black and white though. People in the 2000’s didn’t know that you can make a living off content creation, but people who have adopted this style usually can and will (or should) turn more effort into creating high quality videos.
Isn’t that exactly the point of the meme? Internet 20 years ago was about sharing mostly. Internet today is about monetization mostly. And content quality isn’t what makes you big, it’s your ability to game/abuse the system
The point of the meme is “How dare creators expect any sort of compensation for their work!? No ads! No subscriptions! Give it to us for the ‘exposure’!”
I don’t think most people have an issue with compensation for good content, it’s just there are not a lot of monetization schemes that support this. So what you get instead of quality content is stuff like 40 minute video tutorials with 5 ad breaks about a subject that could have been explained in 5 minutes. That’s also why people tend to put reddit at the end of a google search because chances are good you find a simple post with the exact information you need instead of all the blog sites that explain the same shit in only 5003937352729 words with 300 ads inbetween that show up at the first result page because they game the seo system.
I’m very aware of the problems with weak-effort content on the Internet, and if the first half wasn’t “Cool guy pays to give away content for free”, yeah, that might be it. It’s pretty clearly not OPs intent, though.
The system is far from perfect, but that people can now subsidize their income or replace it entirely with content creation is not a bad thing. People deserve to be compensated for their work, whether that work is for a corporation or for an audience of fans.
“High quality” can come in the form of investing time into research, or creating visual aids that present information clearly. But it also often manifests as flashy title cards, pointless special effects, derivative humor (like frenzied jump cuts to movie clips and memes every few seconds), unnecessarily rambling intros, superfluous wall-to-wall music. I feel like many of these features are borrowed over from classical TV, to give the veneer of a highly produced “professional” product, when democratized internet media’s greatest strength is to actually free us from these conventions.
Yeah can’t argue about that. Unfortunately there are numerous amount of livelihood content creators who are making these clickbaity, mind numbing videos like ssniperwolf.
Found the content creator
Understandable association but I’m not one. Only content I’m making is some memes in a Lemmy community.
Those poor people who grew up without trying monetise everything
Literally poorer people, yes.
How do you reconcile with yourself wanting people to be poor so that you aren’t even moderately inconvenienced?