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Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of dynamically viral videos.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and this is the second in our three episode mini-series

all about the creator economy, emphasis on economy.

We wanted to look into all the ways that creators make money

and where the money comes from and where it goes and how it works

and try to make sense of this whole messy world.

For this episode, we sent our producer Hadley Robinson

to figure out how creator funds work.

We've heard this over and over over the years.

Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, everybody comes up with this big pot of money

and they say, here, creators, have this based on how your videos do.

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