There will be no shortage of new potential revenue streams for him
. The grim reality of the modern online economy is that the journalistic revelations of the past week could even end up making Brand money. It is a strange world in which we live.
None of this is the fault of any one company, of course – but it often feels that YouTube certainly isn’t doing much to make the world better. By always waiting to act until the moment of least controversy, it helps creator after creator build their cult following to a point where “cancellation” becomes nothing to fear. And YouTube banks billions as it does so – itself always the canceller, and never the cancelled.
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