I think as people realize they're not getting paid for their work they'll become a lot more selective about where they contribute time... It will become hard f

I think as people realize they're not getting paid for their work they'll become a lot more selective about where they contribute time... It will become hard for platforms to grow the huge user bases they had in the past. TikTok dictates and heavily moderates what gets viewed on their platform. Creating consistently winning content on the platform is a full time job for many that does not pay well... There is a lot of smoke and mirrors over what creators actually get paid, and how consistent that pay is for many reasons... One thing's for sure, the next platform to win public adoration will need to promise and deliver better and better business/financial opportunities to creators in order to grow, otherwise they'll never be able to take off. Free labor is a rapidly dying industry.