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The Sad Economics Of Online Celebrity

  • Fusion, Tuesday, December 15, 2015 8:35 AM
It’s hard out there for a video blogger. “The disconnect between internet fame and financial security is hard to comprehend for both creators and fans,” Fusion reports. More broadly, “Platforms like YouTube mirror the U.S. economy’s yawning wealth gap, and being a part of YouTube’s ‘middle class’ often means grappling daily with the cognitive dissonance of a full comments section and an empty wallet.”

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