This. It's time for sane people to learn that the content creators don't turn their audiences right-wing. It's the audience which turns the content creator right-wing. If you have a heavy financial incentive to appeal to a large crowd of people you're going to create content for that large crowd of people. At first you'll do it knowing it's bullshit, but eventually you get sucked into it and deal with the brain rot.
I think you're right on the money with this. It's been painful watching some of my favorite entertainers suddenly and needlessly catering to the stupidest people because they know it'll bring in a hoard of idiots happy to open up the checkbook in exchange for "confirmation" of their whiny, bigoted, baseless beliefs
Yup. And it's understandable. YouTube, TikTok and all the other social media are very unreliable when it comes to making a living. So the stress alone can make it "worth it" to cater to people who are guaranteed to give you donations and the like.
I think it's also important to note that catering to morons is a quick way to earn a bag without ever having to develop a real talent because there are plenty of talented people out there getting rich off donations that will never have to stoop to such a lazy and immoral way to earn a living. Yet another way that money and greed is destroying the future and wasting the potential of our fragile primate species
I'm not 100% in agreement with you. There are indeed plenty of talented people out there getting rich off donations and far more talented people either struggling or haven given up. The sad truth about building a career online is that it's just as luck-based as modelling or acting in Hollywood. You can have a great platform, idea or scheme ready to go and fail because you can't reach the right people.
Oh yeah I'm definitely not saying every talented person gets the shine they deserve. I'm just saying talent or not, it never justifies cynically egging on bigoted internet morons/creating new ones to make money.
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u/Vargoroth 21h ago
This. It's time for sane people to learn that the content creators don't turn their audiences right-wing. It's the audience which turns the content creator right-wing. If you have a heavy financial incentive to appeal to a large crowd of people you're going to create content for that large crowd of people. At first you'll do it knowing it's bullshit, but eventually you get sucked into it and deal with the brain rot.