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this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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I'll respectfully pass, I honestly have no issue financially supporting content that I enjoy.
You're almost never financially supporting the actual creators. AFAIK very few contracts in film/TV nowadays have ongoing royalties that are paid out per stream or download of the media. The writers, actors, film crew, editors, etc are paid a flat rate that's probably far less than what they deserve and the company itself gets the actual royalties. That's what "return on investment" is, the wages of the creators are losses that must be exceeded by the streaming revenue for a project to be considered successful. The actual creators are also denied any form of copyright for their work or the ability to extend the IP on their own, that's entirely controlled by the company, which is why you often see the actual creators being excited about fan creations around the work while the company itself tries to sue everyone. You're better off pirating the media and then directly giving money to the people who made it happen. You're literally better off watching YouTube videos with adblock off than watching Netflix if your goal is to support creators financially, at least YouTube still offers a small percentage of the ad revenue to creators.
Also, guarantee more of your subscription money is going toward AI research with the goal of replacing humans in media production than any of the actual people's wages.
I don't really see how I'm better off doing this. It's a lot of extra time I have to invest for each game, music track, and video I watch.
So you get all holier than thou about anti piracy and pro paying Netflix money under the guise of "financially supporting creators" yet dismiss any suggestion of how you can directly support creators as not worth your time and effort? Seems like you're more interested in feeling like you're supporting creators than going to the effort of actually doing so, but you do you I guess.
It's kind of like a time vs money trade-off than anything else. At the end of the day I just want to turn on Netflix, Spotify, or Steam and not have to worry about anything else.
Just be aware that it means you finance the death of creativity. Then ofcourse do as you wish
Honestly, if it's something that I enjoy, it doesn't matter much to me if it's considered creative or not.
You have every right of course