On Kirsty’s point - obvs agree with her completely. It’s really reminiscent of the whole influencer problem, a lot of women (and women because it’s always targeted at us!) don’t really realise how much of what they’re seeing is ad content, the mechanism isn’t v clear especially when compared to traditional marketing (tv ads, billboards, etc). The ASA’s regulations have gone some way to fixing that, but there’s still SO much work to be done in that sphere.
This is sort of a new wave? This new thing that has come to be about paying creatives for their time, it’s a lovely idea and wholly valid in the realm of working for exposure & endless unpaid internships in creative fields, does it make sense for the established media personality however...? Kirsty said how it’s not really fair when the person already has a huge profile and I do agree, also v interesting point on it being through PayPal so the back channels.
The problem is people don’t know just how much info is out there that they can equip themselves with. People act like we’re creepy for going on companies house beta, but this is a publicly available source of info? And it shows you she’s very bleeping well off? Likewise her Patreon sub count, even taking the lower estimate of this she’s on a fair whack? But then I think of most the people I know & wonder if they’d ever have the time or inclination to do this research and the answer is... no, sadly not, even though we’re “digital natives” what hope would an older member of my family have at disentangling all of this?! There should be safeguards put in place, it feels like PayPal need to clamp down on tipping culture tbh. (ETA only saying older not in a patronising way but someone who is less au fait with tech which tbh is wrong to correlate with age, my youngest brother would fall into this category too he struggles to use websites much less smart phones for various reasons)
Sorry for essay x
This is sort of a new wave? This new thing that has come to be about paying creatives for their time, it’s a lovely idea and wholly valid in the realm of working for exposure & endless unpaid internships in creative fields, does it make sense for the established media personality however...? Kirsty said how it’s not really fair when the person already has a huge profile and I do agree, also v interesting point on it being through PayPal so the back channels.
The problem is people don’t know just how much info is out there that they can equip themselves with. People act like we’re creepy for going on companies house beta, but this is a publicly available source of info? And it shows you she’s very bleeping well off? Likewise her Patreon sub count, even taking the lower estimate of this she’s on a fair whack? But then I think of most the people I know & wonder if they’d ever have the time or inclination to do this research and the answer is... no, sadly not, even though we’re “digital natives” what hope would an older member of my family have at disentangling all of this?! There should be safeguards put in place, it feels like PayPal need to clamp down on tipping culture tbh. (ETA only saying older not in a patronising way but someone who is less au fait with tech which tbh is wrong to correlate with age, my youngest brother would fall into this category too he struggles to use websites much less smart phones for various reasons)
Sorry for essay x
