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ParanoidObsessive posted...

25 years ago someone blogging or updating their Geocities page just needed any old keyboard to type whatever they were posting, and could even do it dialing in to their free AOL account. Now people who stream need to invest in fairly high-end cameras, lighting gear, and audio equipment (or their fans will literally never shut the fuck up about it), while more elaborate productions will be paying for multiple performers and at least one editor who will spend a fair amount of time working on the video.

Overlooking that most of that is a one-time cost, you can still do that today. There are smaller blogs with low traffic, as well as popular blogs with minimal investmentb. Which kinda brings me to your second point:

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Worse, if you actually want to get noticed, you basically have to produce content on a VERY regular basis, to the point of conflicting with an actual regular job.

Ultimately it's not so much that things have changed, it's that peoples' mindsets have changed. Years ago people did it as a hobby, nowadays people are trying to do it for a living. And this also comes back to the root of Blu's complaint --- years ago people were doing this for fun, now everybody wants to make money off it. You don't have as many hobbyists as you used to (or, at least, not on a percentage basis).

Even the channels I know and love -- guys who ostentatiously hadn't been doing it for the money -- (like Buckley from ADoseOfBuckley) are pushing Patreon and exclusive videos. And a lot of people trying to get into these things are sometimes setting up their monetization before they really have a product people care about.

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