[pmoriarty]

"I think this is a good thing. Only the strongest content will push through."

Not necessarily. I think my content is good, but if few to no people hear it, much less pay me for it, I don't have much incentive to continue making it. Or if I make it, I rarely bother to release it anymore. I just make it for myself, and no one hears it but me. It's just not worth my time to go to all the trouble of editing and mixing it, releasing it, making cover art, thinking of titles, uploading it, and maybe trying to get listeners for it if almost no one will ever hear it.

I think a lot of other musicians are in the same boat. We can't afford to make music for a living, so have to do it as a hobby, and if we struggle to get listeners even the hobby might not be rewarding enough to pursue in the long run.

Lots of good content can get buried in the avalanche of trash. It might eventually get "discovered", but that's far from certain. It might not happen in the artist's lifetime or at all.

There's still a lot of room for improvement in the field of content discovery.

[pram]

Ive noticed a lot of people who don’t spend time on creative hobbies usually think you should just do a thing because you enjoy it, and not for external validation. While that’s a good sounding platitude, they really haven’t experienced how crushingly depressing it is to have your work ignored and unappreciated.