• infyrian@kbin.melroy.org
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    25 days ago

    This whole article is nothing but “waaaaaahhhhhh”.

    They should shut up and just enjoy doing something they’re having an easier time doing, than grinding your average 9-5 job. Do they really think they’re the only people on the planet?

    sniff sniff “It so hard to turn on a camera and make sure things look right and entertaining for my audience. I thought this was easy street but I don’t know how technology, algorithms or the internet works. I just expected money to come free-flowing into my account with as minimal effort as possible that reflects how many subscribers I account for. Woe is me!! By the way, don’t use ad-blockers for the amount of ads on my videos because I need all I can get!”

    Meanwhile, I work in a straining job where I come home, my knees feel weak, my right ankle is aching like fuck, I am mentally drained, I barely can even put together a thought process that tells me I should even have breakfast while fighting the urge to sleep while I try to have a fraction of what constitutes as a life. As well as work in a place, where I am almost always on threat of being fired for something petty because my management feels they have to have a bone to pick with me by fucking around with me and being snarky while doing it.

    And all you’re worried about is fucking metrics and algorithms. Shut up. Work a real fucking job. First-world problems. I swear the Guardian went out and picked the whiniest bunch of “content-creators” there is.

    • meyotch@slrpnk.net
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      25 days ago

      Yes, they do. Sitting alone in a room, creating video content creates a self-centered and narcissistic worldview. It doesn’t matter how many followers you have you are not really interacting with a single one of them. Get out of your house and meet people in your neighborhood, share your work with them then I’ll be impressed

    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      25 days ago

      Mate, humanity is not going to make it if we can’t learn to sympathize with and protect each other. I’m sorry your life is hard. It’s not a god damn contest.

      What industry are you in, anyway? If you don’t mind me asking.