@arstechnica We are quickly entering the canibalization phase of "advertising funded services."

The VC funding that kept these services afloat is gone. They need cash, and there's not enough revenue in the entire system to generate the returns they want.

Twitter, Meta, YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, etc. will all inevitably end up sucking every one of their "creators" dry, Jul their platform, and still never even get close to their ludicrous targets.