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Letting Users Decide Who Gets Paid
Patronage — It is my belief that audiences WANT to pay creators. Fans like to reward artists, musicians, authors and the like with the tokens of their appreciation, because it allows them to connect. But they will only pay if it is very easy to do, a reasonable amount, and they feel certain the money will directly benefit the creators.
French • Better Than Free
The other side of that idea – that everyone’s a creator – is that everyone’s also an investor. Time and energy are investments, even if they’re not always monetized. With an explicit financial layer in the form of tokens, users get a material stake in the platforms they use the most. The recent ENS airdrop is a good example of how this could work, ... See more
Coindesk • Money for Everything: A Future Where Every Inch of Culture Is Monetized
This matters, it affects what audiences get served and which creators can make a living. And, honestly, I haven’t even considered that there might be a different way.
Hank Green • The Radical Egalitarianism of TikTok's Creator Fund Matters
-Decouple creator payouts from audience demographic: Hank Green writes of the Creator Fund, “people with wealthy audiences don’t automatically make more than people with poorer audiences.” The “radical egalitarianism” of the Creator Fund stems from rewarding creators that generate the highest engagement, rather than those that generate the highest ... See more