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Notch was also an anomaly. I agree that it's a beautiful story, but rules aren't defined by their exceptions.

• cbs 15y ago
  Success is an anomaly.
  • _delirium 15y ago
    That's not much of a useful consideration then; a more relevant question is how some non-negligible percentage of people can achieve at least moderate success, not how a handful of people can do something anomalous that gets famous (that'll always happen one way or another).
    • cbs 15y ago
      how some non-negligible percentage of people can achieve at least moderate success, not how a handful of people can do something anomalous that gets famous The internet is unarguably a huge advantage for people on the lower end. There are some people who have been knocked form being successful in the traditional media to being successful on the internet only, but that internet group includes them and people who would have never been successful in the traditional media. I don't even think that's a question. The only reason someone who would have been successful in traditional media isn't successful on the Internet is that the increased ease of competition made it clear that they suck and they pushed them out.