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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…
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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…
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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 —…
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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…
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The Faux Charitable Endeavor of ‘Creator Funds’
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #185 | November 14, 2023 “Is anybody else seriously depressed that they’re getting rid of the Creator Fund?” TikToker @laurawiththecurls said in a video this week. “Was I ever making an earth-shattering amount of money on here? No. … But it was nice to get just a little bit of extra money…
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While Hollywood Celebrates Its Fairytale Union Wins, Content Creators Get Played for Pinocchios
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #184 | November 9, 2023 It’s Thursday evening, and my timeline is full of rejoicing. Following September’s historic wins by the Writers Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild has seemingly (conditional upon vote approval) followed suit, ending its strike against major studios to a series of cheers and applause from its…
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The Internet Is Trash. Who’s Going To Clean It Up?
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #183 | November 7, 2023 For years, writers have been calling out cyberspace for being full of garbage. It’s a permanent archive of all the weirdest, grossest, darkest, and most disturbing parts of ourselves — immortalized into offensive memes, snarky Reddit threads, and bad tweets. If you’re anything like me, you probably…
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The Cringeification of Costumes
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #181 | October 31, 2023 There are swathes of creators whose whole content strategy revolves around reacting to “cringe” content. YouTube, in particular, thrives on being a bit of a freakshow. As YouTube essayist Contrapoints points out in her essay about cringe, this kind of voyeuristic content is often fueled by an…
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Jason Calacanis?
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #180 | October 26, 2023 Oh, what a time to be young in the world: so much potential on the horizon: an infinite multiverse of possibilities, stemming from right this moment into that beautiful question mark of the future. Youth is wasted on the blah blah you get the point. I’m being…
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Is Exclusivity Dead?
CREATOR NEWSLETTER Issue #179 | October 24, 2023 This weekend under the shiny lights of nearby casinos on the Las Vegas strip, Twitch made a revelatory announcement: It is now, finally, officially allowing creators using its platforms to simultaneously stream across any platform. In case you’re unfamiliar, for a long time, Twitch had the sort…
