• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    Certainly incentivising users to create the most attention-grabby content for money won’t possibly lead to a lowest-common-denominator-fueled breakdown of what historically made the platform useful. Nahhh. No way.

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      It does make me want to jump back in to do it though. I don’t care if I become the next hated internet moron, they make bank

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        Yeah I wouldn’t count on Reddit to run this in a competent way that will actually make anyone a decent amount of money.

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          The reason the stick is so long is so you can’t actually get to the carrot. You just need to think you can.

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        Imagine thinking you’re going to muscle in on the turf of people like Gallowboob.

        You won’t be making shit, brother, not without an insane amount of luck.