The Business of Content Creation - Katherine Dee
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Katherine Dee returns to break down the overwhelming apathy many seemed to feel during 2023 and look ahead to what we might be facing in 2024. She and Bridget discuss her culture war burnout prediction, why the Zoomers feel like the internet belongs to them, the pressures of being a content creator, treating it like a business yet being unable to admit to other content creators that it is a business, kids who are growing up with their parents putting their lives online, the trick to being uncancellable, the effects of Elon taking over Twitter, the pressure to always weigh in and have an opinion on everything, knowing how much work goes into the content that is out there, balancing longevity with virality or immediate success, how everyone is in their own echo chamber, and why you shouldn't listen to her when it comes to politics. Check out her Substack Default Wisdom.
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| 0:00.0 | This week we welcome back internet historian Catherine D. |
| 0:04.0 | What bothers me is like between, I find that there's this thing between writers or |
| 0:09.6 | youtubers or whatever, where like we can't admit to one another that it's a business. |
| 0:15.9 | I think there is charitable interpretations why people who go off like the anti-Woke script, |
| 0:20.6 | for example, get like, you know, maybe less people want to publish them or they get like penalized in some way. |
| 0:26.0 | And it's like, yeah, because it's a market, you know, there's still a bottom line. There's still a monetary game. |
| 0:31.0 | There's an opinion that's in season and that's what people are buying and you |
| 0:34.7 | got to bite the bullet sometimes and like you don't have to lie, but if you're passionate about it, |
| 0:39.6 | take advantage of that, right? But it's like we have to like pretend, like I feel like people just have to pretend even in the privacy of like okay it's just two writers talking like you can't like it's like oh well no I'm like completely sincere and it's like are you |
| 0:54.6 | sincere is it just right now it's like everyone's talking about dating so you're |
| 0:57.8 | going to pivot to dating right yeah and it's just like this is a weird denial |
| 1:01.5 | about that which I think is really strange like we all obviously |
| 1:04.1 | we want an audience we can admit that to one another as business people. |
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