In the world if today, content monetization has become a fast trending job many engage in and has been helping take away a lot of youths away from poverty and unemployment. It is so good that anyone who has a phone and internet connection can literally share his or her voice and earn a living doing so. But just like everything on earth is literally a double-edged sword in disguise, it has also pushed lots of persons into doing some dishonourable things all In the name of building audience and making money out of their contents, which brings us to the question,
Has content monetization made people lazy or morally flexible? And is any type of content now considered worthy of pay?
But before I proceed, in all honesty, it's not the job, it's not content creation, it's the you and I, it's the people making use of the opportunity.
No doubt, content creation in itself is simply a system that rewards people for their hardwork just like everything else on earth. When used properly, it is very beneficial to everyone in all ramifications ranging from making information very accessible down to source of innovation that it has become for many.
When used for the negative means too, it becomes an avenue of promoting many immoral contents, misinformation and many insensitive contents. But then, that doesn’t mean monetization forces anyone to produce trash or make mockery of themselves; it rather means some people choose it because it’s easier, faster, and more rewarding in the short term.
But coming to the follow up question of making people lazy, honestly, I don't think so. In as much as it seems like it's a very easy thing when seeing the contents and you imagine how the person is just making money simply by standing over the camera for just 30minutes, it's still something a lot of persons can't do and if you've ever tried to make videos, you would believe with me that the fact it's a 5minutes content doesn't mean 5minutes was used for the production. It's always way more than that alongside other sacrifices.
A content creator who treats the craft seriously writing scripts, editing videos, researching topics, engaging a community is working just as hard as someone in a 9–5 job.
Not everyone content adds a value to us after watching, some even take values away from us, lol, but here is the truth, it all runs based on algorithms and most people will always watch the meaningless contents.
The internet doesn't separate the contents with values from the ones without values but rather will always pay the ones with the highest views and likes.
So, in as much I would say that not all contents should get paid, there's no clear cut ways of making that a reality.
So the ball lies on our court because when we, the audience stop watching these extreme contents we feel doesn't have value, the creators also will stop creating them if they don't generate money from them again and will look for more profitable contents to display.
So in summary, it's not content creation that's the problem neither is it the monetization, the problem is we the audience and the content creators and until we change, the status quo will remain.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day ahead 👍