I appreciate the reply 🫂 There’s definitely important nuance here. The quality of an influencer’s content, for one thing. Earning money for sharing media that helps other people to get free is arguably a positive action. (It’s also tricky, and I feel like it’s safe to say that the quality of most influencer content is in fact tailored to keep others stuck).

I definitely get the idea of working from within a restricted/rigged system to try and change it… but my gut feeling here is that there’s something still problematic here, although I can’t quite put my finger on it. Maybe it’s around earning money (regardless of what the money is later spent on) by using a tool that has so many negative externalities. It feels like utilizing Twitter in this way, even when good content is shared and sats are stacked, comes with its own problems... the incentives are so distorted that even a well-intentioned user can easily fall into toxic habits, generally creating more Karma, more attachment, more stuck-ness.

The sats are often earned at another human’s expense, and not because they willingly and knowingly exchanged value for value, but because the influencer used a skill set to manipulate other users’ behavior in the pursuit of clicks and views, often doing harm to those users’ psyches in the process.