Today, there are a handful of ways creators monetize their online content. While not fully exhaustive, the most popular and widespread mechanisms are 1) Advertisements 2) Subscriptions 3) One-Off Sales/Donations 4) Brand Sponsorships & Influencer Marketing and 5) Affiliate Marketing.
Live by the medium, die by the medium. It’s not a ponzi. It’s that when everything is a measurable market, you see how fast people can move on. And that is a very different environment to get used to.
When I asked what, exactly, they thought made someone a promising Substack writer, Best turned to McKenzie and asked, in a jokey hush, “Do we keep the Baschez score a secret?” McKenzie laughed. They have a system, created by a former employee named Nathan Baschez, that measures a Twitter user’s engagement level—retweets, likes, replies—among their ... See more
One of the coolest aspects of Genopets is that it’s designed to be accessible to everyone: you don’t need knowledge of blockchain or wallets or fungibility to participate. Anyone can enjoy the game. Abstracting complexity is how crypto goes mainstream.