Re:Funny or Die's Matt Klinman: “Facebook has destroyed inde...
by Terretta on Friday February 09, 2018 @09:34AM
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> ”I think as a young person he doesn’t realize how it was a cultural anomaly that small time content producers could make money through independent production of mass media. Historically, from the development of mass media as an actual business category...”
Perspective.
Take a step farther back, and look across a longer period of time, you’ll find that historically, there was no such thing as mass media. It’s the anomaly.
The norm through far more of human history has been ‘small time’ content producers making money through independent productions.
We have a recent blip where mass media has disrupted ten thousand years of indie artists and troupes. Ideally we figure out how to get back to art for art’s sake, instead of for ads.
Perspective.
Take a step farther back, and look across a longer period of time, you’ll find that historically, there was no such thing as mass media. It’s the anomaly.
The norm through far more of human history has been ‘small time’ content producers making money through independent productions.
We have a recent blip where mass media has disrupted ten thousand years of indie artists and troupes. Ideally we figure out how to get back to art for art’s sake, instead of for ads.