The creator economy
Notes and links relating to artistic creation and how it is compensated.
The creator economy
Imagine spending years in an apartment, making it your home. You pay rent on time, maintain the space beautifully, and build a community with your neighbors. Then one day, without warning or input from tenants, the building is sold to a new owner; a corporate holding company who begins raising the rent and changing the rules.
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Austin Robey • No Platform Landlords
Many (most? almost all?) results (as ranked by some metric) are produced through a sequence of events whose effects multiply together. The log-normal distribution is the real “normal” distribution.
This is my new obsession, which started with my analysis of Patreon earnings.
The critical task, therefore, is not generating more (that’s going to keep happening), but designing the systems - the new algorithmic gatekeepers - that can rescue the meaningful from the deluge. The future of culture will be shaped not by the sophistication of our generators, but by the values embedded in our filters.
From Barking Hellhounds to AI Slop: What Electronic Music Foretells About Generative AI
Consistent with the theory that increased cultural production widens the gap between the top performers and the bottom, heightening the effect of a log-normal (or power law, if you will) distribution.
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papers.ssrn.comMaybe related to a hypothesized increase in inequality in creator economy platforms as the amount of money flowing through such platforms increases.
Who Reaps All the Superchats? A Large-Scale Analysis of Income Inequality in Virtual YouTuber Livestreaming
arxiv.org
Another paper that may show log-normal distribution of earnings by “creators”.
What's the difference between an artist and a creator?
blog.metalabel.com
An analysis of project earnings on Patreon, a service with high-quality data available. Result: It’s the log-normal distribution.