• infyrian@kbin.melroy.org
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    15 hours ago

    This whole article is nothing but “waaaaaahhhhhh”.

    They should shut up and just enjoy doing something they’re having an easier time doing, than grinding your average 9-5 job. Do they really think they’re the only people on the planet?

    sniff sniff “It so hard to turn on a camera and make sure things look right and entertaining for my audience. I thought this was easy street but I don’t know how technology, algorithms or the internet works. I just expected money to come free-flowing into my account with as minimal effort as possible that reflects how many subscribers I account for. Woe is me!! By the way, don’t use ad-blockers for the amount of ads on my videos because I need all I can get!”

    Meanwhile, I work in a straining job where I come home, my knees feel weak, my right ankle is aching like fuck, I am mentally drained, I barely can even put together a thought process that tells me I should even have breakfast while fighting the urge to sleep while I try to have a fraction of what constitutes as a life. As well as work in a place, where I am almost always on threat of being fired for something petty because my management feels they have to have a bone to pick with me by fucking around with me and being snarky while doing it.

    And all you’re worried about is fucking metrics and algorithms. Shut up. Work a real fucking job. First-world problems. I swear the Guardian went out and picked the whiniest bunch of “content-creators” there is.

    • Zacryon@feddit.org
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      6 hours ago

      Meanwhile, I work in a straining job where I come home, my knees feel weak, my right ankle is aching like fuck, I am mentally drained, I barely can even put together a thought process that tells me I should even have breakfast while fighting the urge to sleep while I try to have a fraction of what constitutes as a life. As well as work in a place, where I am almost always on threat of being fired for something petty because my management feels they have to have a bone to pick with me by fucking around with me and being snarky while doing it.

      Why the fuck are you doing that to yourself? Get another job. It sounds highly unhealthy where you’re currently at.

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        Yeah, way to make it sound soooooo easy. In a country where thousands and thousands of jobs are cut at a given. You’d be a fucking idiot to quit a job cold and compete in a job market flooded with people needing a job. What kind of reality are you living in where people can just simply go and pick up a job? I’ve had a period of my life where I was jobless for a year and a half, trying and trying but getting no where. Why the fuck would I want that again because some nobody online said “D’UHHH GET ANOTHER JOB!” without realizing where we are in status of this country.

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          You’re spending a lot of effort complaining about your working conditions and then you see other people complain about their working conditions and your response is to get mad at THEM instead of the capitalist system and exploiting class that keeps them and you perilously employed and in your case seemingly while you’re sacrificing your body.

          Pick the right targets for your invective. Instagram uploaders aren’t making your life worse.

    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      Mate, humanity is not going to make it if we can’t learn to sympathize with and protect each other. I’m sorry your life is hard. It’s not a god damn contest.

      What industry are you in, anyway? If you don’t mind me asking.

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      14 hours ago

      Yes, they do. Sitting alone in a room, creating video content creates a self-centered and narcissistic worldview. It doesn’t matter how many followers you have you are not really interacting with a single one of them. Get out of your house and meet people in your neighborhood, share your work with them then I’ll be impressed