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there's institutional backing and such but I do think this is a factor. when my book came out I could not STAND promoting it, I hated every minute of it and did a bad job, but right-wingers are happy to feed the algorithm infinite slop bsky.app/profile/junl...

union person@junlper.beer

if you ever feel bad about self-promoting your work just remember that the elon musk, the richest man in the world, was crying so hard about his businesses the president did a photo op for his businesses

or as Michael was saying bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

like the left-wing youtubers i watch seem to mostly have an attitude of like "i'm gonna spend a lot of time and effort making really high-quality content and trust that it finds an audience due to its quality" and that's not gonna be as effective as "do whatever it takes to please the mighty algos"

I think a liberal funder could make a pretty big difference here, for not much money! set up a network of editors and especially PR people who can do the grunt work for promising voices bsky.app/profile/samw...

Sam Wang@samwang.bsky.social

There may be a hidden problem here. Nobody's self-funding. Many of those red circles may have funding to help keep them afloat. If the best of those YouTubers had financial support, they might be in a position to post more often.

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Jordan Zakarin

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I can tell you from experience that even when someone coughs up the tiniest minimal amount of money to support a podcast network or youtube show, they really really hate paying for PR and comms and assume the host should be doing that as part of their role. It doesn't work that way!

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yeah, it's maybe the most important part of the entire production and also the one that a lefty host is likely going to be quite bad at

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"So-and-so is a journalist so all of their friends and ex-coworkers are going to write up this show launch, they'll just text them the info, we don't need to do any more work" [and i die]

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The rare exception is stuff funded by rich fortune heirs (never the people who made the money, always their kids or grandkids) but we have so few of them and they go more fashy every year.

Nick Horowitz

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