Cornell’s Crash Course for Creators
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #194 | December 14, 2023 There’s this perfect line from Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” that I’d love to turn into Passionfruit’s tagline if we can afford the copyrights to the quote. The movie stars Emma Stone as a female Frankenstein named Bella Baxter, whose rapidly evolving intellect has her rejecting her “bride…
What’s Missing From All These End-of-Year Trend Reports
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #193 | December 12, 2023 It’s December, so of course, my inbox is flooded with a slew of deeply sanitized and eerily optimistic PR emails from social media companies about “end-of-year” trends and predictions. These lists are usually dry, giving an unsurprising select group of creators a pat on the back, but…
Twitch Leaves Behind Creators In South Korea
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #192 | December 7, 2023 Twitch has a special place in my heart. I’m a big fan of cozy gamers playing anarcho-fantasy farming sims, of politicians playing “Among Us,” of witnessing insane speedruns, and of all the other light-hearted shenanigans on the platform. The Twitch community ranges from supportive to toxic (Twitch…
On Eve of SAG’s Big Win, A Final F You to Voice-over Artists
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #191 | December 5, 2023 The SAG strike is over, huzzah! And thus concludes our Hot Labor Summer, which lasted unseasonably late into December, probably because of climate change. So we’re wrapping things up here, right? Shut it down, because the new contract passed with a resounding 78%…voted on by a whole…
Squid Game Season is Here Again
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #190 | November 30, 2023 There’s something so disingenuous about the holidays for creators. Like oh, your Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales are a whole 16% off? Thanks, but I was so busy live-streaming on Twitch during Thanksgiving weekend to even clock it; I’d been hoping to earn enough in tips to fly…
Stranger Than UnFiction: Why Creators Should Care About ARGs
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #189 | November 28, 2023 If there’s one thing we love about the Internet, it’s how weird it is, and how deeply passionate fans of subcult followings tend to be. (Although, arguably, this is also why the Internet is the worst place?) Which is why I’m so obsessed with unfiction: the genre…
Passionfruit’s Cyber Monday Creatorpalooza
PASSIONFRUIT FINDS November 27, 2023 You know what they say about creators: it’s where the money’s at. Every parent wants their kid to grow up to be a doctor, lawyer and the third best job of making content on the Internet. What’s not to love? It’s glamorous, you definitely get to be your own boss…
Creator Thanksgiving and ‘The Curse’ Of Gratitude
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #188 | November 23, 2023 Happy Thanksgiving y’all. It’s November again, so once again time for the most problematic holiday (though Labor Day is running a close second…as is the new holiday I made up yesterday to celebrate Insider’s heel turn with its Cracked.com-circa-2017 headline: “From Thanksgiving to Labor Day, these 9…
TikTok, the Scapegoat
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #187 | November 21, 2023 TikTok gets blamed for a lot. If TikTok is the youngest sibling of the dysfunctional social media family, it would definitely take the role of scapegoat. And look, don’t get me wrong, as I wrote last week, I think a lot of things about TikTok suck —…
Ah Boy, Am I So Tired of All These Star Wars…Theory
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #186 | November 16, 2023 In the mid aughteens – I want to say 2016? – I attended a benefit gala at the Natural History Museum for god knows what. Truly, no idea what the night’s money was going to fund, and you could not pay me enough money in the world…
