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It’s quite depressing.. Even more recently, the early days of youtube when it just edutainment, and gaming were great .. but now I see VSauce making short forma
by PartiallyTyped 3y ago
It’s quite depressing.. Even more recently, the early days of youtube when it just edutainment, and gaming were great .. but now I see VSauce making short format videos (tiktok equivalent) and looking dead inside.
The stress, living costs, and commercialisation of everything has sapped the internet of what made it so good in the first place.
- RGamma 3y agoNot VSauce too :( It's like a virus.
- RugnirViking 3y ago$$$ is the culprit. The lie that people only make things because patreon dollars, because ad impressions, because sponsorships. They begin to optimise for these metrics and not the most important metric (fun). The lie in general that creative output only happens because people pay for it is wrong in so many ways. People love to be creatively fulfilled. I'd argue the exact opposite, that unless something else is physically preventing them, people will make creative things. Video, songs, games, writing.
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoI think most of OSS is evidence that people will do creative things for free. I suppose that if people's needs were met, more of them would be willing to do all these for free without chasing a dragon.
- reportgunner 3y agoAdvertisements did this.