>>112285689the problem with all these homemade short-subject animations is that they're owned by the people who made them, as are the characters and settings.
Corporations can't abide that. Labor, profiting off their own work? Blasphemy against the billionaire gods.
They let a young man named Walt Disney own his own characters and he ended up joining the oligarchy himself.
But with affordable computers, they can't stop non-corporate animators from owning the means of production. So they have to engineer the market so that they own the means of distribution, and make it impossible for labor to so much as recoup their expenses, much less get compensated for their work.
This YouTube-COPPA business is no accident. YouTube is a global choke point for any video content creator, and they just made animation, the most expensive kind of video, into the least profitable kind of video.
they'll go after Patreon next.
