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> For one, my income is somewhat tied to my productivity, and my productivity highly correlates to my state of mind. What it highly correlates to is your healt

> For one, my income is somewhat tied to my productivity, and my productivity highly correlates to my state of mind. What it highly correlates to is your health - mental and physical. I have a friend / colleague who is a successful creator. YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. He does well. But the stress is endless. Being solo, pardon the cliche, but he's like a rat in the social media platforms' wheel. There's no room for error (i.e., getting sick). Even his "vacations" are driven by what content he can create. The wheel never stops. From time to time we chat about his "business model". To me it's not sustainable, or it is until it isn't, and then the bottom comes up fast. I've suggested he start to think of himself less as a recording artist and more as the record label. That is., to somehow try to figure out how to be less dependent on being the only rat running (for dear life) in the wheel. He agrees. But in no time at all, he's gotta get back on the wheel. There's no exit other than to shut down, which is no exit at all. The focus is admirable. But it can also be blinding, and perhaps eventually unhealthy. For as successful as he is, I wouldn't trade places with him.

iquatemb 3y ago
A youtuber I follow took a week off recently after several years and apologized a lot for it, even though his followers encouraged him to do it. He was frightened about loosing his user base
- chiefalchemist 3y ago
  They might say that but it's more about the revenue. Certainly the overseers at YouTube, etc tune the algorithm to " encourage" a steady stream of content. When, for example, the YT'er you follow steps away, the platform has to have some idea that traffic (read: revenue) to the platform will also dip. Sure, some followers will consume other content. But if the content creator was your initial "gateway" to engagement and that isn't there then you might not engage the platform at all. The platforms know this and make it far too difficult for the CCs to say "No, I need a break." Sadly, the rest of us fellow proles are the key enablers of this paradigm.

iquatemb 3y ago

A youtuber I follow took a week off recently after several years and apologized a lot for it, even though his followers encouraged him to do it. He was frightened about loosing his user base

chiefalchemist 3y ago
They might say that but it's more about the revenue. Certainly the overseers at YouTube, etc tune the algorithm to " encourage" a steady stream of content. When, for example, the YT'er you follow steps away, the platform has to have some idea that traffic (read: revenue) to the platform will also dip. Sure, some followers will consume other content. But if the content creator was your initial "gateway" to engagement and that isn't there then you might not engage the platform at all. The platforms know this and make it far too difficult for the CCs to say "No, I need a break." Sadly, the rest of us fellow proles are the key enablers of this paradigm.