In the long time preference yes. I really dream of the period where creators produce enough value in their content they can sustain themselves. Although I don't know that I believe that the idea that content itself is sustaining, I believe it still should have a business component to it, but free markets should prove me right or wrong.
I think in the short term, if we stick on the path were on, ad monetization is nearly impossible on the platforms themselves, so it's a good thing long term, loss aversion in the short term for on-boarding. In many ways ads become a plague imo. Ads are necessary, and I do think people want to be advertised too, but it goes too far every time. OTA, cable, streaming platforms, etc.
Anyway I'm excited for that future and hope we as builders can stay focused on that because the legacy systems don't want that.
In almost every case sponsorship of a podcast in the bitcoin space is indication of a poor quality product that is losing market share. Maybe a few bad eggs stink up the entire lot, but its becoming a pattern. The problem with B2C direct advertising is its rarely done to inform, but to brainwash. When a "creator" takes on a sponsor, 98% of the time, they are selling the social capital they built with their audience to the purpose of brainwashing through subconcious manipulation to the benefit of a third party of ambiguous character. As a business trying to navigate this "sales and marketing" space, its looking a whole lot more like S&M than lead generation and business development (yea I knowz loaded terms) and I have yet to be convinced its effective if not immoral at its foundation.
Can totally agree and usually the excuse is "well that's just the way business is if you want to keep sharing your message" "take the good with the bad" type stuff. I think there is some truth to that, but maybe we have better tools now it's just a matter of getting there.
I was mining in 2012-2013 before one of the first big price spikes (10-100 usd), difficulty soared and asics of the time became obsolete. I didn't know what I was doing and stepped out of the "community" I was pretty young anyway and didn't have the money to keep up. I got back into "bitcoin" media and stuff a few years ago and it's so much different that it was. And it seems like majority of the media was captured by suits. Just a strange observation from outside looking in. I don't think there are clear parallels to what bitcoin was back then other than most of the tools were hacked together with $0 in budget :)
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