Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Ideas from George Mack:
1. Subprime audience - A creator optimising for size of audience and ending up with a junk audience. They end up producing content they themselves wouldn’t consume.
2. The forgetting paradox - Wordle outperformed every headline in society's consciousness for 2022. All the news everyone was worried outlasted by a novelty game..
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For a person such as Hannah, it's far more valuable to get a few thousand people to pay her $4.99 directly than to have a shared model where she merely gets a few cents per thousand views.
It's far more valuable to 'get picked', but it's also much, much harder.
But this is the reality of the 'young creators' today. They are not talking about a Spotif... See more
It's far more valuable to 'get picked', but it's also much, much harder.
But this is the reality of the 'young creators' today. They are not talking about a Spotif... See more
Forget Spotify for News. Let's Fix the Real Problem
Kids will not believe me when I say this, but people didn’t always absorb their “content” by way of mysterious algorithmic black magic on endlessly-scrolling crack feeds. We used to type web addresses into our browsers, and actually visit our favorite sites. This, going to “www dot college shitpost dot com” or whatever, was itself considered a radi
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