Quote from: shield132 on July 12, 2025, 10:04:02 AM

Lots of people are into content creation because it's easy money. People go live on TikTok these days and strangers donate gifts to them. A friend of mine, who had a monthly salary of $300, started to earn $2000 per month from TikTok lives. All she does is to turn on TikTok, speak some nonsense, be in live with other TikTokers to start a battle and during these battles, people donate gifts to help her to win and then she converts these gifts into real money.
My another female friend is a fitness influencer. She posts pictures of her butt and has 100k followers. Lots of companies try to contact her, give free products and thousands of dollars to promote their products via Instagram post and reels.

It's funny that some people attend Universities or do very hard physical labour but content creators without degrees or any experience, earn significantly more money while having fun every day and don't need to wake up at 6 am.

Jobs that look easy, often just seem easy as you don't see the effort that lead to it looking easy.

Trading seems easy when you got lucky with some random token that got you millions overnight. People used to say that making music was easy too: "just press some buttons and wait for those millions." Even though majority of those people won't make it. Same goes with being an influencer. Most of them are working their asses off just to see getting their content stolen.

People who get followers because of their physique often train that physique like there's no tomorrow, because their paycheck depends on preventing aging. And it's just a matter of time until there will be 100x younger ones taking your place.

Whole creative work and entertainment work is hard and nearly impossible to cash out with, as the whole scene is saturated with competition. This is the age when you do what you can for money, because AI is coming and renders majority of it irrelevant. If you find the market that can provide your living, it doesn't really matter what the source is.

I just find it funny when people say it's easy when you can only see fraction of those people succeeding that did try to make it.