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Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout

Boo hoo, losers. Your device has a power switch. Influencers have a warped and inflated sense of the value they create. They can stop at any time and use their skills in other ways.

Making good content is hard, but ‘good’ content doesn’t have an expiration date. Shallow brain-rot content does and that’s what the algorithms reward.

The entitlement that influencers have is nauseating. There are many creators out there laboring in near obscurity and producing useful content all the time for little or no compensation.

They are tools for Zuck and fools for propping his platforms up. It sounds like a hard slog, but they can stop any time.

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roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You’re making enemies of your own team. These people are creatives, doing a job they love, and a corporate algorithm forces them to destroy their work life balance to keep doing what they love. And you’re belittling them. You need a reality check, these people are not your enemy.

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- meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Nah, if you are feeding the Zuck, not my team. The principled creatives aren’t there.
  
  It sucks to try to make a living as a creative. But giving your efforts to support social media platforms controlled by the worst people is inexcusable. Zuck literally and provably helped the fascists gain power.
  
  The creatives I can respect create because they are compelled to. They work jobs and create when they can. They share their work on less shitty platforms and in actual real life.
  
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  - Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Facebook isn’t the only site these people use…
    
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    meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Zuck owns more than Facebook, too. ANY big social media platform is similarly toxic.
    
    These people have co-opted our social discourse for evil causes. And they aren’t the only way to share work online.
    
    Creative people do not have a right to my admiration if they provide fresh bait that the oligarchs use to degrade democracy and civil society
    
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  - roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Curious who signs your paychecks?
    
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andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Do creative people have viable paths to income that aren’t social media?

How does one survive as an artist or a small film maker, when there is no patronage, government funding for museums is constantly on the chopping block, and any form of art you make is going to be uploaded whether you like it or not?

Our society essentially has no paths to success for creative types other than social media - especially with C-suites deciding that they’d rather use the plagiarism machine to make slop than hire actual content makers and artists?

Making things like clip art used to be a job. You used to be able to paint signs. There was work for casual level artists. Now, your options are trying to go viral on social media/hunt for commissions.

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scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah sheez. You know what you can’t pause? The flow of customers into the drive through. Internet influencers work on their own clock.

Let’s get an article about fast food worker burnout please.

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Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

but ‘good’ content doesn’t have an expiration date.

Yes, it does, depending on the topic. If it’s video games, like with MOBAs that get updated regularly, all the content for that patch expires after two weeks. Itemization and champion builds change so much that whatever value there was for you to build similarly is lost, and you’re left with a mildly amusing thing about how something used to be.

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