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Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by ebiester on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:08AM (#26328442)
They get different content.

Nowhere on that streaming content is someone explaining the intricacies of speedrunning The Legend Of Zelda (as a simple example.) It turns out there may only be a couple thousand people in the world really that interested in that content, and only a few hundred willing to pay for it. The economy of scale thee changes the calculus of how much you are willing to pay.

Re:The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free by gota on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:02PM (#26331209)
Good example.

> t turns out there may only be a couple thousand people in the world really that interested in that content,

As evidenced by the success of SummoningSalt's youtube channel