In general, I'm seeing fewer spaces online for writing and sharing stories via writing. I thought it was maybe just me, until a podcaster I listen to, who's a former writer, mentioned that there's less money in it. Venture capitalists are bored by the written word now, I guess, so they're not putting money into online writing. (They are putting money into #LLMs like #ChatGPT so that the robots, who don't need to be paid, can do the writing rather than people.) It seems like anyone who wants to share their perspective with the world needs to do so via video or at least audio. There's less of a market for websites that rely on text. Writers now seem to have pivoted to video or they put out their own individual newsletters, but there are fewer spaces for people to write and reliably get paid for it.

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