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• Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Creators would exist without the platform. They always have. But the platform definitely does bring value. The problem is that for a while now, greedy corporations have slowly been pushing the balance so that they received most of the benefit of everyone else’s work. It’s an overarching problem of capitalism that we need to deal with. But have been putting off for 50 to 60 years.

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  • Neve8028@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Creators would exist without the platform. They always have.

    Not sure what you mean with this. Youtube has allowed anyone with a camera and an internet connection to put content out in the world. It was completely different back before youtube existed.

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    • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve been on the internet since 94. I know what it was like. YouTube did not create creators. People posted video to the internet long before YouTube was a thing. And long before Google owned it. Because they didn’t create it.

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      • Neve8028@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m not saying people didn’t share videos beforehand, but youtube created a platform that allowed people to do it more easily, be discovered more easily, and actually make a decent living through it. The internet landscape, especially in respect to influencers or content creators, is entirely different now than it was in the 90’s.

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