Can I just say, as a guy who writes and draws for a living, it sucks the extent to which modern artists have to think about the distribution channel as opposed to just making good stuff. 25 year old artists juggle 10 platforms, regularly updating their understanding of how each one's algorithm works. I dunno the solution, but the fragmentation and algorithmization of everything has eaten so much time that should've been spent on craft.
@ZachWeinersmith In my ideal culture artistic economic success would be decoupled from reach because generating attention seems to mostly select for all the wrong qualities. And that would then also "solve" the artist chores to generate attention on different plattforms. But how to get there I don't know.