• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Exposure doesn’t pay the bills.

    It takes upward of 200 streams of a track on Spotify to earn a single penny. 20,000 streams to earn a dollar.

    (For me and my personal expenses, this would mean I would need 40,000,000 streams per month to pay rent/pay bills/eat. I’m dirt poor and live a dirt poor budget. 40,000,000 streams to pay $1400 in rent is INSANE.)

    That “exposure” can still add up to “not paying the bills.”

    Also, if he gains no new listeners? He would have made a huge mistake not angling for more money.

    This guy is being smart, and the rich just want people to THINK that exposure is worth it. Even Oprah pays in exposure and its bullshit. The company has got the fucking money to pay it they just don’t want to.

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        2 months ago

        You, as an individual, buy enough of their stuff to support them month-to-month? How generous of you.

        Now that the snark is out of the way: Clearly an individual doesn’t make enough money to do that, and if you’re the only new fan they gain that’s still nowhere near enough to make a living.

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          2 months ago

          You could have responded without being an asshole. If we had discussed this politely we probably could have reached an acceptable middle ground and both learned something from the other person’s experiences and ideas.

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            2 months ago

            You’re coming out here arguing in favor of a megacorporation keeping even more money for itself instead of artists getting paid for their work. I feel like you should have expected to have upset people.

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              2 months ago

              It’s the internet. Calm down. Not everything has to be a fight. Use that energy to yell about something more important, like genocide or climate change. Goodbye