> Either side thinks they can't survive without vanquishing the other.
Except, it actually is not a two way street. It's purely one way. Without users, the content sellers can't survive. But if users stop consuming ads and eliminate content revenue streams, the users will be just fine. So what if TikTok goes out of business or something?
All the failure of online advertising would mean would be regressing to a time when the internet was not very commercialized yet, which was an amazing awesome time when we had pretty much all the positives of today with few of the negatives.
They need us, but we don't need them. Big Content is a parasite.
Except, it actually is not a two way street. It's purely one way. Without users, the content sellers can't survive. But if users stop consuming ads and eliminate content revenue streams, the users will be just fine. So what if TikTok goes out of business or something?
All the failure of online advertising would mean would be regressing to a time when the internet was not very commercialized yet, which was an amazing awesome time when we had pretty much all the positives of today with few of the negatives.
They need us, but we don't need them. Big Content is a parasite.