What really sucks shit about today's generation of entertainment is that it's every bit as manufactured and controlled as TV, but it comes with the illusion of choice and organic popularity since that's what the internet once provided.

I'll grant that the YouTube grind is brutal and without a talent agency they can absolutely fuck you in the ass without lube, so even if you initially had some organic success, once one of these agencies comes along and offers to "help" you it takes a lot of stones to turn them down. So I guess the social media industry is more like the music industry in that regard.

I mean if you start out just as a guy with a webcam getting approached by a talent agency with a pitch like "look at everyone we manage, we know how to take care of the things you don't want to do" is a pretty easy sell.

Oh, wow. I've been watching Settled and the Gielinor Games over the past year or so, and I noticed when watching Settled that he had a tremendous uptick in quality when he switched from his first UIM series (which wasn't that good, to be honest) to Swampletics. At the time, I thought that was just maturity. Now I wonder if that was when Clover Talent picked him up.

I mean, I still like his videos, but it's a shame that he has a talent agency presumably breathing down his neck, and everyone else's.

Explains why a dopey slob like asmon with basic bitch videos suddenly pops up everywhere. I'm sure these companies have special deals to promote their guys over organic content.