#and ofc vetted according to content guidelines

[strike-another-match]

SORRYYYYY remember that post abt how indie game creators are getting away w shit you'd beat your employer up for. anyways I just found out that gensh*n imp*ct has a "Content Creator Program" where if you create a certain amount/quality of content they would give the creators free in-game currency (the thing you pay real-world money to roll for the gacha stuff). It's CRAZY bc like. okay if they were compensated for merch or whatever it's like, okay, that's a real thing that took real labor and materials to make. It's not money payment or anything, but it's something... BUT PAYING IN THEIR FAKE IN-GAME CURRENCY? ? ? LMAO??? THAT SHIT IS ALL MADE UP??? they're paying users literally nothing to make free advertising for them it's crazyyy lmaoooo. anyways hope you're having a great day idk who else I could tell this to

WHAT OK THATS INSANE NOT THE G*NSHIN SCRIP BAHAHHAHA i took a look and omg i could rant for hours about how much i wish companies had never identified fandom spaces as a potential source of free publicity... i feel it kills both a fandom and a piece of media when the executives decide they're going to keep tabs on twitter discourse to influence the next season's writing or officially tap into fan creations as an element of their business model... i think the contents in a fandom get more and more stale the more that people are chasing the vetting or approval of the IP holder because there's rigid limitations on the kind of stuff that official accounts will share and "endorse" so it quickly becomes less about fun self expression of your own lovely deranged ideas and more about just doing free work for the company matching their style and content guidelines like at that point you're basically an unpaid employee SPECIALLY if there's some kind of affiliate program that you have to worry about losing if you post the wrong thing. imho looking further into the content creator program one of the "perks" is the "opportunity" of doing free playtesting for them it all comes full circle hahahahah