There is no demand for “getting paid to create content” on social media platforms (or blockchains for that matter).

1. Every other social media platform has thrived with no user incentive to post besides an audience. An audience is a better incentive than cash! You can sell whatever you want to an audience. This excludes YouTube which requires significantly more effort to create content on.

2. Not everyone can be a “content creator”. Content is infinitely reproducible and sharable, meaning the top 1% will get 99% of the attention. There’s no longer a local musician in every town. There’s a select few for the whole world.

The whole thing is a massive grift to inflate usage and content that no one will ever see.

> 2. Not everyone can be a “content creator”. Content is infinitely reproducible and sharable, meaning the top 1% will get 99% of the attention. There’s no longer a local musician in every town. There’s a select few for the whole world.

In a winner-take all attention game, Mr. Beasts are inevitable. This is less a byproduct of what people want, and more a byproduct of the monetization engine underneath (ad spend across aggregated views)

The 1000 true fans thesis is more alive than ever and is our way out of this enshittification arc we've been in for the past 20 years

friendly neighborhood shitcaster // working on @pinetree