> Did you really think this was some bastion of fairly rewarded high quality content? Let me pause to laugh.....

This is excellent. 

Great ~~rant~~ post, spot on. Aside from people even knowing/realizing that before the rewards matrix leaned even more towards ~~self~~ ~~circle of jerk~~ the 1%, why would anybody even think that any money based is fair and doesn’t follow the principles of money talks and rewardingly those who have more exponentially better. 

Also, the usual *quality* debate is tiresome. When I go to a bookstore I see 98% trash and if I search long enough and visit the furthest corners of the shelves I may actually find some quality too. Quality to me. 

But one’s trash is the other’s quality. And while we may not like that, we have to respect that. And ~~trash~~ easygoing content just sells better because most people prefer not to think. 

Ever since the internet started to go more mainstream it has been the floodgates of content. Which, of course, means that the more people joined, the more lower quality content was shared and popularized. Not merely statistically.