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Does anyone else hate how everyone is trying to make money all the time? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by marcie@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I had to deal with some guy at work trying to do some tiktok video and including me in it so I could complement his side gig or some shit (and likely only including me because women get views). And if I complain too much about being included in their grift everyone will shit on me for being a karen or for not helping him with it. Jesus fucking christ, I hate people that try to constantly plaster their face and name on everything to make money. Fuck youtubers, fuck tiktok, fuck ads, stop stealing peoples work for a quick buck 'by doing commentary', leave me the fuck alone

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes I get annoyed at the crowd that sees me doing something they think is cool and be like "you could sell or provide [x hobby]"

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This took the joy out of everything.

“Oh you write music? You should make an album and sell it” “oh you cook? You should make a ghost kitchen/foodtruck/marketplace” “oh you do 3d printing? You should model stuff for people or make a print farm” “oh you do open source stuff? Why don’t you work in coding or at least do fiverr coding jobs?” “Oh this home server is cool you should set these up for people for money”

FUCK YOU

And then when they find out I just like, post recipes or code or models or whatever online for free because I want to contribute back to the communities that taught me a lot they’re like “you’re crazy”. Maybe I don’t want to fucking monetize everything. Maybe I’m sick of everything being monetized. Maybe I believe information should be free and this hustle culture tech bro bullshit that took over the Internet post 2006-08 or so where everything has to be paywalled or monetized is absolutely cancerous and should be destroyed.

Our greed will destroy us all

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

It's not just the monetisation. If you turn a hobby into a job you end up having to do a lot of stuff you don't actually want to do or care about, because the people you do it for care about these things.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Exactly. I made code for our school project open source and some of them said we could like sell this. I'm like bro, this is mostly youtube tutorial code with some modifications, who will you sell this to?