[sam_goody]

I disagree. As soon as it became as easy to create video as it was to draw, people created video content, not just consumed it. When sharing (youtube) was easy, the levels of creation have grown unbounded.

The amount of media in all forms that is being created today is astounding. That's digital drawing

If coding was as easy as writing we would find at least as much growth there. I know dozens of people who have ideas that would try to code, if it was as conceptually easy for them to do as is writing a memoir.

Such a revolution could definitely happen.

[sanderjd]

Is programming really harder than writing a memoir? It seems to be the other way around to me.

[noname123]

IMHO,

Coding a simple mainentence script is equal to writing a diary entry.

Coding a CRUD web app is as hard as writing an average short story in a college writing class.

Coding an app that uses heavily system programming principles, concurrency and networking probably equal to MFA level creative writing and so on...

[PakG1]

Unfortunately, unless there is data to examine, this is only a platitude. When I survey the landscape, I'll tend to agree with the parent. Yes, there's been an explosion of content. But there's also been an explosion of consumers. Parent probably pulled the ratio out of thin air, but I'd say his point stands. The explosion of consumers is enough to handle the explosion of producers (and even the so-called prosumers). Honestly, you can count the number of YouTube stars out there with probably five digits, maybe even four. Compare that with annual YouTube views and passive accounts.