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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

There’s a very common pattern of “I’m going to focus more on my own life” you get from creators as they realize this.

The financial equation of having talent and using it for free stuff for people on the internet is not a stable one. Even when you decide your reward is attention, the mental toll ends up outweighing that meager reward.