The Creator Economy Illusion
We mistook distribution for a business model. The bill is now arriving.
The creator economy was sold as the great democratization of media. What actually happened was the great rental of distribution. A million small businesses now operate on platforms they don't own, monetized by algorithms they can't read, dependent on a CPC they can't forecast.
The few creators who broke out of this trap did one thing: they converted attention into something that doesn't live inside someone else's app. A product. A community. A piece of the real world.
Audience is rented. Position is owned. The next decade belongs to creators who understand the difference.
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