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Don't know about X content creation but I have a friend who got into Twitch and does that as their main full time job. Even with staff. In all honesty I 1) have been subscribed to them for ages now, initially out of "wanting to support a friend on their ambitions" then just not wanting to withdraw it and 2) have only actually watched a handful of times and whenever I did the whole thing was... very meta. People are throwing quite a lot of money at the screen to watch them react to having money thrown at them. Sometimes it's more like, generic life advice stuff (and fair enough, sometimes it takes a confident voice to get people to listen to advice) but most of the time it's the money throwing loop or responding to chat comments.
I genuinely wish them the best with it, but it really is such a very modern way of earning a living. I can't decide whether it's a sign of late stage capitalism itself, or what comes after it.- where eventually if we want to pay each other pretty much *for the sake of paying/supporting them*, we can sack off a lot of the existing system. I don't know. A lot of it is people being generous for a moment of attention which I can't see as sustainable.
Must be a lot harder to hold a job creating stuff for Twitter though. I think they have tips now so maybe it works out.
I genuinely wish them the best with it, but it really is such a very modern way of earning a living. I can't decide whether it's a sign of late stage capitalism itself, or what comes after it.- where eventually if we want to pay each other pretty much *for the sake of paying/supporting them*, we can sack off a lot of the existing system. I don't know. A lot of it is people being generous for a moment of attention which I can't see as sustainable.
Must be a lot harder to hold a job creating stuff for Twitter though. I think they have tips now so maybe it works out.
