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If reddit founders and investors make bank out of content generated for free, the content creators will get pissed off there's nothing for them. And they'll move on.

YouTube is the only one I see who is really trying to make it work. Instagram worked it out by placed ads for the most popular models.

And a key sin of all these sites is they think the content is theirs. It's not. Stop trying to regulate it to be what you want. It is what it is and you should be thankful, very thankful, they chose your site to host it. But this doesn't seem the case. The reddit admins in particular seems to hate a large part of their content-creating user base.



Twitch is also a highlight here. When they came to the scene content creators flocked to their business model very rapidly.


Just like everyone moved on from…

Twitter? Facebook? HN?

Maybe people just aren't in it for the money.




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