Hmm ya know what, lets imagine a “perfect” world where V4V completely replaces the ad model. In this world, promotion no longer matters. All that matters is the ability of the artist to produce high quality content in exchange for pure monetary energy. In this world, one would help artists not by helping them expand their reach, but by helping them increase both the quality and quantity of their content. Give them tools to collaborate with other artists frictionlessly.
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…was literally having this convo in my engineering class. We want to focus on quality too & having programmer friends can help save hours on fixing software, in what a programmer can do in seconds.