Welcome to the age of the NPC streamer — where creators act like glitchy robots for our entertainment.
and infuriated people, many of whom were clearly unfamiliar with the subgenre of content, with one viral tweet reading, “50 years of relentless innovation to end up here — heartbreaking.” This seems like both a massive overreaction — in athat hard to believe that female creators can make bank off appealing to extremely online guys’ basest impulses? — and a misunderstanding of what Pinkydoll and other content creators like her actually do.
with Motherboard, she said she pivoted to social media after losing her cleaning company, spending six hours a day on TikTok Live seven days a week. Even after all that, she made about $250 a day until she went viral this week. “I needed money to feed my kid and pay the bills. I had no job,” she told Motherboard. “I decided to put all my effort on TikTok to make money. And I wasn’t expecting to go viral.
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