There's so much wrong with this piece it's mind blowing. I'm not sure where the author got the impression that the long tail promised sustainable income for lo

There's so much wrong with this piece it's mind blowing. I'm not sure where the author got the impression that the long tail promised sustainable income for long tail content creators - that was always antithetical to the concept. But if we look at YouTube's 6.9 billion in revenue for Q1 '22 vs Netflix's 7.9 billion in Q1 '22 it sure looks like the long tail still has a seat at the table. And it's about to explode. The problem with the long tail was the expense of content generation. We live in an age where long tail artists get paid to create VERY specific rule 34 erotic art for extremely unique fetishes - but it necessitates the desire for that art to exist to be greater than the threshold of the cost to create it. But the eventual erotic allowed version of DALL-E 2 is going to make SO MUCH bizarre porn at the cost of cents. The long tail is precisely the part of the curve that's going to be most impacted by the coming tsunami of change AI is going to bring. Why hire a service that has a C-list celebrity leave a happy birthday greeting for a loved one at $500 (current long tail) when you can have voice synthesis create an identical sounding result from an AAA celebrity (or extremely niche favorite celebrity of your loved one) for $0.005? The long tail hasn't failed. It's still doing pretty fantastic. This article not only falsely predicts the death of the long tail, it fails to recognize that the long tail is about to hit puberty.