I am . . . so not even going into the other post because wow there are SO MANY assumptions at work about perspectives and focuses and what people even like going on in some of those threads (some of which like AHAHAHA NO, p2p is a nightmare waiting to happen), I can't even. But so that it doesn't itch at me:
I keep finding my perspective on these things grounded in music and professional-musician-life and shit, and am always so bemused at how . . .absent that perspective often seems to be otherwise. It's like there really is a very low overlap.
What fandom tends to do, in terms of what I see, is turn into buskers. It's not even "pass the hat" in the sense that when the hat gets "passed" there's a very strong obligation-feel that you need to put something in it: it's more that there is a hat, out in front, that people can toss stuff into if they feel the performance is worth the remuneration and they have it to toss.
And then (like buskers) sometimes a fan-creator will also have some adjacent product For Sale (like buskers will have albums), and sometimes you can (like buskers) commission them for a particular performance and hell, sometimes they even have a totally separate Concert Career (ie are professionally published).
It's just that for most fan-content it's really hard to get a physical hat out in a physical space, so (to me) what kofi and patreon and other things do is basically host your hat for you. Which isn't actually unlike busking EITHER (to busk in most cities or popular tourist areas or transit areas in Vancouver, you get a permit).
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I keep finding my perspective on these things grounded in music and professional-musician-life and shit, and am always so bemused at how . . .absent that perspective often seems to be otherwise. It's like there really is a very low overlap.
What fandom tends to do, in terms of what I see, is turn into buskers. It's not even "pass the hat" in the sense that when the hat gets "passed" there's a very strong obligation-feel that you need to put something in it: it's more that there is a hat, out in front, that people can toss stuff into if they feel the performance is worth the remuneration and they have it to toss.
And then (like buskers) sometimes a fan-creator will also have some adjacent product For Sale (like buskers will have albums), and sometimes you can (like buskers) commission them for a particular performance and hell, sometimes they even have a totally separate Concert Career (ie are professionally published).
It's just that for most fan-content it's really hard to get a physical hat out in a physical space, so (to me) what kofi and patreon and other things do is basically host your hat for you. Which isn't actually unlike busking EITHER (to busk in most cities or popular tourist areas or transit areas in Vancouver, you get a permit).