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[–] Sakychu@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Influncer didn't exist yet? I think young mind OP just didn't understand that he was market to lol

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I can't speak to OP in particular, but there were definitely lots of years where people made shit for free, sold nothing, and didn't consider it a job.

Like, there was no real mechanism for stick figure martial arts animations to make any money at all. Newgrounds or Ebaum's World must have made some money from ads, but I don't think any of that was profit-shared with the creators back in those days. Some of the creators were straight up anonymous because they didn't even think to put their names on their stuff.

Obviously celebrities and ads and stuff still existed on the earth at the time, but it didn't spread to the internet in a big way until later.

At least that's how I remember it...

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Newgrounds or Ebaum's World must have made some money from ads, but I don't think any of that was profit-shared with the creators back in those days.

Ebaums actually decompiled flash animations to remove watermarks added by the creators just so they could keep all the ad revenue for themselves.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Fuck ebaums. Newgrounds was legit, though.