Commodified fandom is not the Next Big Thing; no matter how much the industry + its various lampreys wish it to be.
Average consumers are already sick to the eyebrows of the "Subscription model" of cultural capitalism; with its endless rounds of paywalls and funneling 'tiers' and demands for greater commitment to niche entities that promise 'community' but only deliver extraneous, parasocial 'content'.
People don't have the time or loose money for that kind of relationship anymore; + if they do they can't support more than one such entity, in the least expensive way. Most musicians can't make this model work either, + still survive without offscreen sources of income or other resources; not even medially "famous" ones.
Commodified fandom is not the Next Big Thing; no matter how much the industry + its various lampreys wish it to be.
Average consumers are already sick to the eyebrows of the "Subscription model" of cultural capitalism; with its endless rounds of paywalls and funneling 'tiers' and demands for greater commitment to niche entities that promise 'community' but only deliver extraneous, parasocial 'content'.
People don't have the time or loose money for that kind of relationship anymore; + if they do they can't support more than one such entity, in the least expensive way. Most musicians can't make this model work either, + still survive without offscreen sources of income or other resources; not even medially "famous" ones.
Sorry to be so blunt.
We Have a Problem When US Media and Politicians Care More About Communist China than US Citizens. https://shorturl.at/jCi8x