>it's that the circumstances of this business model work for Louis CK, but not necessarily others following in his footsteps. I fully agree with this. If you h

>it's that the circumstances of this business model work for Louis CK, but not necessarily others following in his footsteps. I fully agree with this. If you have your own cable TV show, you can make a lot of money by selling your wares independently online. The platform is a lot different for those of us that can't start an AMA on Reddit and have it shoot up to 10,000 comments in a few hours. This mentality is reminiscent of the first tech bubble. People, if you aren't already a famous figure or brand, it is difficult to get traffic and it is really difficult to get $500k in sales in four days. I'm not saying it never happens, but you shouldn't go into anything with that kind of expectation.