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Neon brings up concerns that major social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) are also shifting away from rewarding content creators financially—either stopping payouts or reducing revenue share. This pattern, he suggests, reveals a systemic trend of platforms using creators to build their audience and then sidelining them once they no longer serve the platform's corporate interests.
This phenomenon is not entirely new; companies like Webtoon attempted to capitalize on web comics and influencer content, only to shift focus when they achieved their goals—often favoring Hollywood or Korean media partnerships. Neon argues that YouTube is following a similar route: building a creator economy that ultimately aims to feed its own Hollywood ambitions.