Yes, it is no different, and it's a problem. Football players and noodles are especially good examples. These are people who literally destroy their bodies on a

Yes, it is no different, and it's a problem. Football players and noodles are especially good examples. These are people who literally destroy their bodies on a promise that is oversold. So maybe the entire system should be done away with. If we can't have professional sports players and professional models and YouTube content creators without exploitation, then maybe we shouldn't have them at all. I dodn't see it as much different from not legalizing hard drugs like heroin. If the drug is too addictive to allow for responsible use, then we shouldn't have it at all. If you follow some of the creators that got big in YouTube and are also now big in Tik Tok, you'll see that it's actually worse in Tik Tok. Unlike YouTube that distributed a percentage of revenue, Tik Tok has a flat "creators' fund" that gets doled out proportionally. So where a boy account on YouTube draws more revenue to YouTube, that makes the pie bigger, so pre-existing accounts aren't losing out just because someone else is doing better (e.g. they serve different demos). On Tik Tok, each account is not just in competition for existing eyeballs, they're in competition with all other accounts regardless of overlap of audience.