It's a worthwhile point if you're talking about Facebook and other big business social networks. Arguably, Facebook has fake value (wait til the next tech bubble pops.)
FA isn't gathering content with business value. (Unless you forsee some kind of corporate buy in the future.) They spend way more on server cost alone than ad revenue would pay for. The more they get, the less easy their job gets. I think they have a few other (insignificant) sources of revenue, one of them being donations. What serious business works like that? It is a gift for them to operate a site for fans.
Competition has to do with markets. Other sites aren't fighting to own a finite market, they're just reshuffling the same deck of users or adding more to it. If one "goes out of business" it just means the operators lost interest and users can do the same thing elsewhere. If someone has tied their living to that site, they've been silly.
"Psychic income" is a term for art and freelancing with poor pay but rich self-determination. For furry content we could use some term like fan points. Rich, in FA terms, is "popufur". (Dumb word.)
The bulk of content that goes on FA is everything but commercial. Most wouldn't be able to sell it (or maybe even have a good place to put it) if such sites weren't hosting it. Drawing it to one site likely just gains it bonus attention it wouldn't get on it's own. The stuff that does sell, is more likely to be a real world liability than a furry world business asset. Two words to never put on your resume: furry porn.
Hobby: touche. It's my self-aware statement about keeping it weird in a conformist world. It's a satirical antithesis of things that are pretentious and fun-hating. It's a hand up the butt of the puppet that dances for the society of the spectacle. Combined with a contradicting sincere love for fabulous fluffy things, cartoons, science fiction, nerdiness, and DIY-ness. It's a happening place for unreconstructed nerd subculture, on the plaid fringe of intersection with too many others to know. I like playing here because it's outsider art. How could that be anything but a hobby?
On the other hand, "We should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things of life with a sincere and studied triviality."
I love talking about stuff like "the furry economy". It's like fantasy football or something... and football is silly, while fursuit making is seriously cool. (Happy Superb Owl Sunday! Watch the Puppy Bowl.)
It's a worthwhile point if you're talking about Facebook and other big business social networks. Arguably, Facebook has fake value (wait til the next tech bubble pops.)
FA isn't gathering content with business value. (Unless you forsee some kind of corporate buy in the future.) They spend way more on server cost alone than ad revenue would pay for. The more they get, the less easy their job gets. I think they have a few other (insignificant) sources of revenue, one of them being donations. What serious business works like that? It is a gift for them to operate a site for fans.
Competition has to do with markets. Other sites aren't fighting to own a finite market, they're just reshuffling the same deck of users or adding more to it. If one "goes out of business" it just means the operators lost interest and users can do the same thing elsewhere. If someone has tied their living to that site, they've been silly.
"Psychic income" is a term for art and freelancing with poor pay but rich self-determination. For furry content we could use some term like fan points. Rich, in FA terms, is "popufur". (Dumb word.)
The bulk of content that goes on FA is everything but commercial. Most wouldn't be able to sell it (or maybe even have a good place to put it) if such sites weren't hosting it. Drawing it to one site likely just gains it bonus attention it wouldn't get on it's own. The stuff that does sell, is more likely to be a real world liability than a furry world business asset. Two words to never put on your resume: furry porn.
Hobby: touche. It's my self-aware statement about keeping it weird in a conformist world. It's a satirical antithesis of things that are pretentious and fun-hating. It's a hand up the butt of the puppet that dances for the society of the spectacle. Combined with a contradicting sincere love for fabulous fluffy things, cartoons, science fiction, nerdiness, and DIY-ness. It's a happening place for unreconstructed nerd subculture, on the plaid fringe of intersection with too many others to know. I like playing here because it's outsider art. How could that be anything but a hobby?
On the other hand, "We should treat all trivial things in life very seriously, and all serious things of life with a sincere and studied triviality."
I love talking about stuff like "the furry economy". It's like fantasy football or something... and football is silly, while fursuit making is seriously cool. (Happy Superb Owl Sunday! Watch the Puppy Bowl.)