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Podcast: thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future
Episode: 1090 THE CREATOR VS. THE CROWD
Description: In this episode of "ThinkFuture," I dig into the eternal struggle every creator faces: making what you love versus what the crowd wants. Picture a Venn diagram—one circle’s your passion project as a content creator (think podcaster, TikToker, artist), the other’s what goes viral with millions of views. Problem is, they rarely overlap! I talk about how creators pour their hearts into work that often stays unseen, while algorithms push crowd-pleasers—stuff that’s made to go viral, sometimes even using AI to predict what’ll pop off. But should artists have to compromise their vision just to get...