Reply To: People of the uTubes and other social media, do you share your content elsewere?

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Unfortunately, the content creation is a whole new “business model” now. It’s not just this hobby; I’m a musician, and the trend is for some people to literally NEVER have a band, gig, or make records – increasingly, social media is their ENTIRE “career”. One famous example is a guy who does lessons, has millions of followers, and became so famous Gibson has a signature Epiphone guitar attached to him! That’s just a radical shift.

Covid was a major driver of the online music trend as people looked for ways to discover new stuff. I think this has been a paradigmatic shift across many hobbies, pastimes, call it what you want. The long term effects of the shift are here to stay – until something new comes along!

Personally, I can’t stand social media, at all. It’s much as you feel: attention seeking, hey, look at meeeeee! vibe. Maybe I’m old and grumpy, like you ? .  And I’m no “boomer” – do millennials realize “boomers” are nearing 80 years old at their one end? No, because millennials are too busy on their phones to do math? . I’m firmly a GenX, the slackest generation to come after the Greatest Generation since WW2.

But there’s no denying the uptake in online content. Take the train, or take the plane: or in this case, just go virtually?

It’s a strange new world. And I don’t like it. ?