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strong opinion, somewhat strongly held:

creatives don't want to create for "content traders"

the word "trader" is inherently transactional — someone primarily seeking profit, optimizing for price movement without emotional or philosophical attachment to the asset itself

idk a single creative who seeks that out

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I’m not sure if it’s the word “trader” itself that create the detachment from the platform or the community by the artist/creator. Even in the traditional art market there are “traders” that are not emotionally attached to the art they buy/sell/trade and usually artists don’t care much about it. The artists want to be seen, appreciated and surely look for collectors who resonate emotionally with their art, but the history facts says things completely different: dealers who buy emotionless and artists who create emotionless are the large part of the market. My 2cents