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How social media rewards undermine the value of sustained creative effort

I spent six months on a project and posted it to crickets while someone else posted a five-minute sketch that got thousands of likes and I cannot stop thinking about the unfairness

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The platform's bias toward quick consumption devalues the slow, deliberate work that often represents an artist's greatest growth

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media and the creative voice?”

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