It probably also doesn't help that the following seem to be true as well: 1. Everyone is expected to make any remotely successful hobby into a business or 'sid

It probably also doesn't help that the following seem to be true as well: 1. Everyone is expected to make any remotely successful hobby into a business or 'side hustle'. So regardless of the activity or type of art, everyone will pressre you into trying to make it your full time job, as if the only reason to do anything is become rich and famous from it. 2. For many people, I suspect 'become a celebrity' is probably their best bet at making enough money to afford a decent living in this economy. If you're not interested in software engineering, medicine or law, then practical job options for affording a house and decent life are fairly few and far between. 3. The competition in most fields is super high due to said competition being 'everyone on the planet interested in that topic'. So if you want to stand out, you'd better be good at marketing, that's for sure. And that last point is really the issue all media and creators have to deal with now. When the level of competition is this high, and there are so many people trying to succeed in every field, then supply is going to outrace demand. Hence why conditions are often bad when it comes to publishing and platforms, and why marketing is so ridiculously important now; there are tens or hundreds of thousands of others doing the same thing that are willing to do more poorly paid work to get their name out there.