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The result? “As opposed to preserving and letting it run as it is, it just got really, really corporate. Politics, greed, all the horrible things that come with big corporations, slowly sort-of crept in,” said Percival.
Stuart Dredge • MySpace – what went wrong: ‘The site was a massive spaghetti-ball mess’
The internet unlocks distribution. Traditionally, gatekeepers dictated who had influence: record labels, newspaper editors, studio executives. Now anyone can build an online community. You can share videos to YouTube, writing to Substack, music to Soundcloud
Rex Woodbury • The Creator Manifesto 🎨
Musicians compose their tracks with TikTok’s length in
mind, and then title them exclusively for SEO. The figure and ground have been reversed: artists don’t upload their music for distribution, they
make music for distribution.
Matt Klein • Page Not Found
For a long time, Donaldson admits in a number of podcast appearances, he was afraid of putting anything complex in his videos — what if a viewer didn’t get it and stopped watching? Donaldson might very well be an advertiser’s absolute dream, the logical endpoint of an internet that’s been flattened into a samey, straightforward sludge of optimized ... See more
Patricia Hernandez • The End of the MrBeast Era
-Distribution: Pressure on platforms to improve transparency and economics. Data portability gives creators power.