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More people are dropping out of the creator economy as those at the top get a bigger share of brand deals

My hope is that this creates a correction in the creator econ...

78% of participants gave higher ratings to AI-generated poems than to those written by renowned poets

This is both depressing and eye opening

Millions of creators make their significant others a big part of their content. So what happens when they break up?

Involving others in your content creation process necessitate...

Twitch Is A Disgustingly Evil Platform [video]

Twitch needs to apply the same rules to everyone, not just wh...

Western game studios should be very nervous about ‘Black Myth: Wukong’

Ubisoft, EA, Activision ... they been pushing out live servic...

Snapchat Plans Major Revamp of App In Bid to Rival TikTok

Feels like Snapchat is chasing the TikTok dragon. Everyone’s ...

Audible to Start Generating AI Voice Replicas of Select Audiobook Narrators

Im oldschool, and nothing beats the human aspect for me. AI v...

X’s new AI image generator will make anything (even explicit and controversial)

Blows my mind that this type of stuff is on a major social ne...

Media sees ‘X’ as the ‘Home of Social Media Piracy’

That's how you know they don't give a flying **** about copyr...

Runway’s AI video generator trained on thousands of scraped YouTube videos

Until the law steps in, all creators and COMPANIES that got t...

TikTok Adds Custom Thumbnail Option for Clips

It probably wont affect discovery that much, but it will like...

Ask CBX: Do other creators get the sunday blues?

I don't only get it on Sunday, I get it pretty much ANY day o...

we're living in a world of panopticontent

There are tons of cases where someone is meme-ified as kids a...

DrDisrespect responds to Twitch Ban

I’m not sure why he even felt the need to write this, on Twit...

X Adds Khloe Kardashian to Its Original Video Creator Slate

So X is in the desperate "buy content" phase, I see.

A View Is Considered Three Seconds

Without trying to be overly dramatic: Our attention spans are...

Ideas and Creativity

I really like the 'Combining Existing Ideas' one. It's the mo...

TikTokers call to block celebs after 'tone deaf' Met Gala: 'Stop worshipping rich people'

Interesting. At what point is something considered a celeb? (...

Disturbing AI nonsense recipe channel with millions of views

Hold up, but the video itself isn’t AI? Right? Sad I have t...

Twitch’s TikTok-like discovery feed is rolling out to all users this week

Been looking forward to this for a little while. It’s a start...

How the internet became shit

It’s really hard to search for things now online without stum...

How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More

Wouldn’t this be breaking the “must disclose ad” terms of ser...

Airchat is a new social app built around talk, not text

It looks like an interesting app, I just can't seem to get a ...

Movies are back? At CinemaCon, theater owners and studios will make the case

I really do hope movies theaters bounce back and ultimately i...

MKBHD calls out tech accessory company dbrand, which he planned to work with

It’s nice to see they reversed the original offensive tweet. ...

Spending time alone is really, really important.

I've been realizing lately how much being alone really helps ...

Creators are stepping back from generative AI

GenAI also just has limits for creators. Prompting can only t...

Spotify recently announced that it paid out over $4.5 billion in 2023 to just indie artists alone

Yeah, when you put that in perspective, $4.5B is actually qui...

Twitter has seen a massive 22.9% drop in the total number of daily U.S. app users since Elon Musk’s takeover

It’s really hard to come back from something like that. Once ...

Instagram Updates Hashtag Search To Broaden Discovery

A step in the right direction for IG. The platform is notori...

Coming to terms with something not being the best it can possibly be

I feel like most of the things I make aren’t good enough to r...

Hollywood vs. the attention economy

I would disagree slightly. He has some appeal for being an av...

How Google is killing independent sites like ours

It's sad to see how search engine algorithms currently favor ...

Creating video from text

Pretty cool. And a bit intimidating. I can see this being use...

The creator economy can't rely on Patreon.

If you are at the point of having users pay for something, my...

Letter from the YouTube CEO: Big bets for 2024

I appreciate the steady and reliable way youtube approaches i...

I am a creative.

So much relatable stuff in this write up. I swear most of us ...

Palworld embroiled in AI and Pokémon ‘plagiarism’ controversy

Having it be “Pokémon with guns” seemed like it made it a mar...

What I Learned Selling a Used Pencil on TikTok Shop

I think unfortunately this is causing some rebellion on tikto...

There Is Still No Real Use Case For AI Art

AI generated visuals seem to struggle to bring genuine innova...

What We Lost When Twitter Became X

Article talks about what we lost, but let’s talk about what w...

Everything is Hard.

I often think about why most people shy away from ‘hard’ stu...

Twitch revert Artistic Nudity guidelines after going “too far”

Wow what a hard uno-reverse. It’s one thing to act quickly a...

Linktree acquires Koji–and plans to shut it down

Interesting move by Linktree acquiring Koji, but the decision...

How to gamify your storytelling

It’s not necessarily that it’s winner take all, it’s that it’...

TikTok’s top trending videos reveal a fractured culture

It’s probably a little bit of both. The person who is open mi...

How Jubilee made a $50M channel that forever changed YouTube

This is an absolutely amazing story and super motivating. I l...

Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out

Users would need to be paid $59 to deactivate TikTok and $47...

Tiktok boosts Tiktok Shop users

It’s probably true for all the major social platforms, just t...

xQc’s YouTube channel terminated for copyright claims

There is no way someone who streams as much as xQc can make T...

Substack adds new video tools to compete with Patreon and YouTube

Video on substack was always a gap area, nice to see they are...

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