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"Celebrity Thinkers": internet's new icons
Influencers, now a slowly fading cliché in the Internet’s tableau vivant, found success articulating the cult of personality, and marketing themselves as direct-to-consumer-goods. The shift away from this algorithmic surrender can be traced to the macro and micro “creator economies” spawned by the likes of Patreon, Substack, OnlyFans and even Cameo... See more
Eileen Isagon Skyers • Dirt: Are we post-platform?
" Everyone is realizing that the opportunity of the creator economy is much broader and deeper than originally anticipated. Creators aren't simply disrupting the media world, they're turning entire industries upside down. Because they are scalable friends, educators & retailers, they can take over the markets of loneliness, education & CPG.... See more
Hugo Amsellem • How to Invest in Creators?
Creators are no longer just influencers, reality TV stars, adult entertainers or #fitspo evangelists; they’re your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, your local bartender and that one guy at Trader Joe’s who always bags your groceries just right. It is a preview of what’s to come.
Jason Parham • Everything Is Becoming Paywalled Content—Even You
As social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram grow larger, they skew disproportionately toward supernodes—celebrity, meme and business accounts.
Arjun Sethi • The Hive is the New Network
When young people can have an influence so large, both through wealth and through their companies, the culture itself has to change.