I run a blog. I write content and I’m surprised at what gets visits. But I also don’t care about popularity. It’s a place where I can relay information.
My friends have YouTube/twitch. They’re extremely popular, in the 100k+ range. They all quit their job (I did not). But they’re so incredibly involved in every single “drama” that every talk about coding with them ends up being about how x-person on Twitter is a jerk or how to game the system.
Same here. At this point I’ve effectively become an internet ‘hermit’ and avoid social media. Sometimes I’d even avoid Youtube because of how overstimulating the content are. I don’t know how useful this will be for my wellbeing though, since I don’t even ‘touch grass’ either. And yes, I’m autistic so the current state of the web is borderline intolerable for me.
Good for you, I’d consider my online “diet” to be the same, although I do count lemmy and masto etc as social media, just not quite so pernicious as the mainstream corpo ones
On youtube barely, on twitch for sure. Generally you would have more income streams like a patreon and some such. Maybe even merch. If you’re doing it all solo, you can easily earn 4-5k per month with these numbers and that’s often better than many full time jobs.
Im definitely fudging the numbers. They probably have more in other places and use all sorts of other social media platforms. And I don’t really bother to verify since I start to tune them out when they go into “getting more traffic by optimizing TikTok shorts” or whatever.
I’m kidding, it can be good to have friends who aren’t the same as you. But seriously that sounds so TIRING. Like omfg just get a job at that point, so you can at least forget about it when you aren’t working.
When I came back from winter holidays to my job I didn’t remember ANYTHING. It was glorious
I’m having this internal debate as well.
I run a blog. I write content and I’m surprised at what gets visits. But I also don’t care about popularity. It’s a place where I can relay information.
My friends have YouTube/twitch. They’re extremely popular, in the 100k+ range. They all quit their job (I did not). But they’re so incredibly involved in every single “drama” that every talk about coding with them ends up being about how x-person on Twitter is a jerk or how to game the system.
Seems exhausting, and I wonder if it’s worth it.
Same here. At this point I’ve effectively become an internet ‘hermit’ and avoid social media. Sometimes I’d even avoid Youtube because of how overstimulating the content are. I don’t know how useful this will be for my wellbeing though, since I don’t even ‘touch grass’ either. And yes, I’m autistic so the current state of the web is borderline intolerable for me.
Good for you, I’d consider my online “diet” to be the same, although I do count lemmy and masto etc as social media, just not quite so pernicious as the mainstream corpo ones
I still like to make video content, so I post it on my self hosted PeerTube instance instead: http://tube.jeena.net
That way I’m far awaybfrom fame but also drama ^^
That’s surprising to me. Are 100k+ really enough to make a living?
On youtube barely, on twitch for sure. Generally you would have more income streams like a patreon and some such. Maybe even merch. If you’re doing it all solo, you can easily earn 4-5k per month with these numbers and that’s often better than many full time jobs.
Im definitely fudging the numbers. They probably have more in other places and use all sorts of other social media platforms. And I don’t really bother to verify since I start to tune them out when they go into “getting more traffic by optimizing TikTok shorts” or whatever.
Username checks out.
I’m kidding, it can be good to have friends who aren’t the same as you. But seriously that sounds so TIRING. Like omfg just get a job at that point, so you can at least forget about it when you aren’t working.
When I came back from winter holidays to my job I didn’t remember ANYTHING. It was glorious