Ultimately I do genuinely believe that once you hit a certain point in terms of wealth/yearly income
It’s not even about the amount, it’s about them wanting to continue to do their current job as a streamer/podcaster/whatever. If they are too extreme they get deplatformed, so they have to remain very mild in their opinions, they have to “play to the algorithm” and making content that gets views is more important than content that incites the masses. Anyone who is extremely radical probably isn’t going to last long on any corporate media at all, if they are even willing to use it in the first place. No one wants to lose their job, and in a field like that, where the “boss” is way more arbitrary and inconsistent than most, these guys would probably much rather play it safe.
It’s not just these sorts of jobs too, it’s anything creative on the internet. If you want to make a living off of it, it can’t be too radical or too extreme or else it will just be removed, so anyone pushing properly revolutionary ideas online will need to do it as a hobby or side project, which means their soul-crushing job under capital will need to come first, which will prevent them from making much content, and if you don’t produce tons of content, you get buried by the algorithm. There’s probably hundreds of really solid leftist youtubers and podcasters and such who do it in their off time and get maybe 20 views an episode because they can only release one every 6 months or so and the algorithm hates their content or their stuff just gets taken down because it is actively educating and inciting.
Yeah I get that in terms of Hasan but also he could just stream himself talking about international politics, or just politics in general, without doing the DNC endorsements and saying shit like “actually you’re wrong for caring about the fact that Platner isn’t a good candidate because of the nazi tattoo, the mercenary work, etc. he needs to win otherwise you’re never getting anything like universal healthcare but go off king i’ll be there with you when you start the revolution” to anyone in his chat/online who raises the point to him. Entryism and its consequences.
I actually have a lot less sympathy for the Chapos when it comes to this because they’re outside of the whole Twitch.tv ecosystem and while Patreon does have the ultimate say over their $2.4 million dollars a year, it is insane to me for them to make the mistake with Fetterman and then immediately go “Yeah I’m supporting Graham Platner” to which I can only say: …okay, here’s hoping he gets M4A passed, maybe that’ll put him back in the positive for ‘lives saved’ versus ‘lives taken’ (I have no idea if Graham Platner has ever killed a man but I’d wager he probably watched multiple die over the course of his time in Abu Ghraib and did nothing so he’s in the negative as it stands given his pride of having served)
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It’s not even about the amount, it’s about them wanting to continue to do their current job as a streamer/podcaster/whatever. If they are too extreme they get deplatformed, so they have to remain very mild in their opinions, they have to “play to the algorithm” and making content that gets views is more important than content that incites the masses. Anyone who is extremely radical probably isn’t going to last long on any corporate media at all, if they are even willing to use it in the first place. No one wants to lose their job, and in a field like that, where the “boss” is way more arbitrary and inconsistent than most, these guys would probably much rather play it safe.
It’s not just these sorts of jobs too, it’s anything creative on the internet. If you want to make a living off of it, it can’t be too radical or too extreme or else it will just be removed, so anyone pushing properly revolutionary ideas online will need to do it as a hobby or side project, which means their soul-crushing job under capital will need to come first, which will prevent them from making much content, and if you don’t produce tons of content, you get buried by the algorithm. There’s probably hundreds of really solid leftist youtubers and podcasters and such who do it in their off time and get maybe 20 views an episode because they can only release one every 6 months or so and the algorithm hates their content or their stuff just gets taken down because it is actively educating and inciting.
Yeah I get that in terms of Hasan but also he could just stream himself talking about international politics, or just politics in general, without doing the DNC endorsements and saying shit like “actually you’re wrong for caring about the fact that Platner isn’t a good candidate because of the nazi tattoo, the mercenary work, etc. he needs to win otherwise you’re never getting anything like universal healthcare but go off king i’ll be there with you when you start the revolution” to anyone in his chat/online who raises the point to him. Entryism and its consequences.
I actually have a lot less sympathy for the Chapos when it comes to this because they’re outside of the whole Twitch.tv ecosystem and while Patreon does have the ultimate say over their $2.4 million dollars a year, it is insane to me for them to make the mistake with Fetterman and then immediately go “Yeah I’m supporting Graham Platner” to which I can only say: …okay, here’s hoping he gets M4A passed, maybe that’ll put him back in the positive for ‘lives saved’ versus ‘lives taken’ (I have no idea if Graham Platner has ever killed a man but I’d wager he probably watched multiple die over the course of his time in Abu Ghraib and did nothing so he’s in the negative as it stands given his pride of having served)