After the Creator Economy

A more connected online creative ecosystem doesn’t default to treating “creators” as economic agents within transactional marketplaces. Instead, it emphasizes collaboration, solidarity, pluralism, and a movement beyond individualism.

We want work to be financially valued without compromising our integrity. We want to make meaningful work that we're proud of, not please an algorithm. We want to share work in ways that feel right to us, not compete for attention on a feed. We want to feel seen without our creativity and identities being exploited.

Being a creator today is lonely and isolating. It feels like we are forced to participate in a platform economy that places creators in competition against each other for followers and attention.