"Social Media was developed under the premise of providing free "social" marketing for artists that aren't profiting from their work yet..." I don't remember t

"Social Media was developed under the premise of providing free "social" marketing for artists that aren't profiting from their work yet..." I don't remember this. It might've been a bullet point in some fantastical interpretation of potential, but you'd have to be naive to think this was how it would play out. Doesn't take much thinking to see that every free platform gets overrun with hopefuls and spam and the platforms need a way to either rank content or monetise it. Spotify and co provide distribution, not marketing. If it was as trivial as "create social music platform, get coverage for my music", you and every artist could do it, right?