By class I meant income level, not culture. In the past being a profitable artist meant superstardom or poverty, with a rare few in between with middle class i

By class I meant income level, not culture. In the past being a profitable artist meant superstardom or poverty, with a rare few in between with middle class incomes. Now with Youtube/patreon, there is a good chunk of 'middle class artists' that are developing today that didn't exist in the numbers that these platforms created.