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There is a Twitter account dedicated to people that try to abuse the exposure thing. As you might expect, the most stories are from USA https://twitter.com/fore

• EricE 5y ago
  I love the assumption that exposure has zero value. Usually from people who have only ever taken a paycheck from someone else. Exposure has value. Otherwise these kinds of things wouldn’t exist. If you don’t agree, don’t do the gig. Pretty simple. But no! That’s not enough! Those other people are expressing wrongthing and must be corrected. Ugh - bunch of freaking busybodies. At least in the days before pervasive communications (i.e. social media) busybodies were restricted to those physically around them or relatively small communities. But now thanks to the miracle of sites like Twitter everyone can have their own personal Gladys mocking and judging their every move. Yippie.
  • thelean12 5y ago
    It's not that exposure doesn't have value. It's that unpaid positions start to collapse the industry if it becomes too common. SAG has minimum day rates for a reason. I imagine major studios could find plenty of people to do speaking roles "for exposure" to the point where no low level people have any real leverage to make any kind of living from MASSIVE corps. The massive corps would get free labor by exploiting the hopes and dreams of low level actors. The free market gets weird and fragile without unions here. Photography doesn't have the same union powers, so we rely on public shaming as much as possible.
  • throwaway823882 5y ago
    You sound like somebody who got exposed for trying to pay people with exposure.