Signal Boost: On Fandom and the "culture of selling"

[morgandawn]

fairestcat  posted: On Fandom and the "culture of selling"

 

Excerpt: "Do I worry about the increased monetization of personal spaces on the internet? Absolutely. But not for those reasons. 

I worry because I'm a Giant-Ass Socialist, and personal crowdfunding is chancy and unreliable and a sign of our massive failure as a society to value artists and creators and to protect and care for vulnerable populations.

The Patreons aren't the problem. They're just a symptom of the fucking hellhole dystopia we all now live in.

If you look at the proliferation of gofundmes and patreons and think, "ugh, why do people keep asking me for money?" and not "how can we burn late capitalism to the ground and salt the ashes?" then I think you're not seeing the big picture."

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