the money that youtube paid out in 2024 was over 30 billion dollar. that is, coincidentally, around the same amount of *revenue* of the global box office.
youtube is bigger than cinema and the whole music industry, combined.
there's been a very violent (but weirdly unnoticed) switch from professional culture = pop culture to amateur culture = pop culture. nobody cares about movies or tv shows, but people do care about let's plays, tiktok skits, vtubers. even things like smiling friends stop early because it's just not worth the hassle.
@kaia btw if you want to see some retro show about the topic, there was one called 'welcome to the scene', where nearly all of the drama was happeing via instant messengers. by now it's 20 years old: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2FCB2871C396459
> And Alyssa is perturbed by the idea of a data center so close to Janesville’s underserved neighborhoods. “They’re coming to one of the poorest counties in our state, with a property that’s been vacant, knowing that people are thirsty to have development here,” said Alyssa. “If you look at where data centers are being built, it’s not in Mark Zuckerberg’s backyard. It is in hardworking Janesvillians’.”
> Three volunteers with the No Janesville Data Center effort met us there. Alyssa Capozziello is a disabled mom who resolved last year to become more engaged in her community. Kaycee Peterson, lean and ponytailed, is finishing her bachelor’s in environmental science. Cathy Erdman is a local organizer and firefighter who just returned from a vacation to Mongolia.
