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Wondering if social media is in part responsible. It seems you can make a lot of money as content creator, especially in NA. I don't understand or believe the C

• romanovcode 3y ago
  Survivorship bias. Extremely small percentage of those who are doing social media are actually making money.
  • KronisLV 3y ago
    > Extremely small percentage of those who are doing social media are actually making money. Some people are just better at it, have better circumstances, work ethic, are more lucky or something like that. I stream on Twitch occasionally, as does one of my friends. Their channel has grown to being 3x the size of mine in months, whereas I've been occasionally streaming for over a year. Their earnings from that are also a multiple of mine. Neither of us really have large communities, but some people will have 10 or 100 better growth than either of us, which is probably applicable to most types of content generation or platforms out there. Here's some info about Twitch from years ago, some interesting trends: https://sullygnome.com/articles/normalgrowthontwitch https://sullygnome.com/articles/normalgrowthontwitch (many content creators will never really "make it big")
• rightbyte 3y ago
  No. You need like 100000+ "fans"/regulars to live of your YouTube channel. So if a person follows 5 creators, 5 in 100 000 can live of that. We are talking piano tuner rarity here.