> There's a big content creator in my country who's barely earning 5000 dollars from it.

I'm surprised that so many people are happy to describe themselves as content creators. It's an admission that what you create is generic content for some platform to wrap in ads. It's a type of self-commoditization.

I don't think YouTubers generally do refer to themselves as content creators, as opposed to Creators (a term promoted by YouTube but embraced by the community).

At least it's less cringeworthy than "influencer".

I would differenciate between the two. A content creator makes first and foremost content and advertises second to fund that endevour. While influencers have often no clear line or almost exclusively make ads.

Imho: Influencer are cringeworthy, they deserve the title.

It was a sad day when I saw iPlayer describe a video as 'content'.

You'd expect the creator to have more respect for their output.

> People seem to believe the magical internet economy will make you rich

This is the entire founding belief of YC (and a huge swath of “VC culture” and Hacker News in general).

Look at how many “businesses” promoted here have no meaningful revenue and no real ideals for how to monetize.

> Look at how many “businesses” promoted here have no meaningful revenue and no real ideals for how to monetize.

They all know how to monetize, it just doesn't sound good to say it out loud: get a bunch of users by offering a free service on VC money, then sell your userbase to a big company.

It’s not magical, it’s simply a market where technology allows for extremely low marginal costs so if you can launch your business over a high moat (such as overcoming network effects with tons of cash), then you can print money once you are entrenched.