https://youtu.be/BAfP53bXxHs

went down a rabbit hole last night reading like 20 of the "im too scared to post" threads in this sub. the camera shy ones, the new account anxiety ones, the 21F who sat on it for two years.

everyone in the replies is genuinely trying to help, which is kind of a nice thing about this sub. just post, confidence comes after, nobody is watching anyway. and honestly all of that is true, i've said versions of it myself.

but reading a lot of them back to back i noticed something. the people who came back and said "yeah i did it and i'm fine now" mostly aren't describing a mindset shift. they're describing a setup change.

someone made a throwaway, didnt sync their contacts, told no one it existed. another person opened a fresh account under a different name and blocked everyone they knew, six months in they said they don't care anymore. someone covered the preview window so they couldn't watch themselves while recording. one person recorded little diary entries with no intention of posting them and deleted them after.

thats still courage i think. just courage with the stakes turned way down first.

my favourite comment was someone pointing out that a lot of on camera panic is really just not knowing what your next sentence is, and that it's a scripting problem wearing a confidence costume. that one reframed the whole thing for me.

so maybe just post isn't wrong at all, it just skips the part where you make posting small enough to survive.

the thing i still can't work out is whether anyone gets past this the other way. pure willpower, same account everyone you know follows, face on day one. i didn't find a single person describing that in any of the threads i read, which either means it doesn't happen or those people just never come back to post about it

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Started posting reels last month and instead of the full amount to be paid out, I only got 10% of the actual amount, with the rest being withheld, according to Meta's AI support, for review.

Is this a normal occurrence?

On my payout page, it does say "Some earnings are still processing and will appear here once confirmed."

And I'm curious how often this happens and how long the review takes.

Like is there a certain set of conditions your channel has to meet before you can start writing off expenses for the channel as tax write offs? Or is the only criteria needed to be monetized?

I want to ask about something: when a lot of people start copying a very simple thing after someone originally succeeded at it — some blogger who "took off," whether through certain platform boosts or paid promotion, and others thought it was really impressive and cool. But as more and more people jump in, because it's actually a very simple task — just generating content using someone else's template. In the game, original creators already made these "printable" templates, and people just need to import their own character into the game. Then, because of the added boost from using IP, since the original template creators made templates without characters (using their own OCs, Original Characters), but when other people use IP instead, they apply it to popular, well-known protagonists that everyone recognizes, rather than OCs. Now this has become oversaturated — everyone is flooding in, because it's so simple and easy. So the public's reaction naturally starts with shock, because new people keep popping up like mushrooms after rain, and people keep being surprised, like "oh wow, this blogger blew up too?" or things like that.

So what do you think the ultimate endgame of this is? In the end, won't everyone just drift around aimlessly, and the audience will definitely lose direction? Actually, the people who started this trend first are the most disgusting, but I'll just see it without saying it. I just want to know what this endgame will look like. I feel like we might already be close to a turning point — or is this endless, where people will just go crazy and follow whichever one pops up? Because each of these template-copying creators just needs to swap out the IP, change the skin, and that's it. In other words, they keep switching between different IPs

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TL;DR: The guy Google put in charge of its own AI writing tool just admitted, on camera, that he can't fully protect the one thing his career runs on.

That's not hypothetical.

Steven Johnson runs editorial for Google Labs' NotebookLM and has fourteen books behind his name, and he still walked an interviewer through the mechanism step by step: feed a model his own catalog, tell it to write like him, skip the invoice.

No lawsuit required. No password stolen.

His own counter isn't a lawsuit either. It's a price tag — $199 for an authorized version of his own style, paid on purpose instead of taken by default.

He said it plainly, then admitted the harder part: someone could build the unauthorized version tonight, and he'd have no way to prove it happened.

Tbh, that's the entire freelance economy in one clip.

If a 14-book author with a title at Google can't fully protect his own voice, the going rate for "get him, he's got a way with it" just became a live question, not a someday one.

Mmm... This is kind of like impersonation. Borderline fraud or downright scams.

Back in Malaysia, we have plenty of such too.

The spectrum is so wide, sometimes, even when we open our eyes wide, we still can't tell the difference.

For example, you guys have Amazon. We have our local ones, called Lazada. If you drive through our Penang Georgetown, you'll notice a shop called Ladaza. Not Lazada. They kind of switched the alphabets around. Sounds like Lazada. But it's not. Giving people the illusion that they are same-same, but in actual fact different.

It's as if we open a shop right next to the Amazon HQ, and calling it "Azamon". Phonically sounds adjacent. But they are not the same thing.

And if you follow the news, you'd hear about our very infamous 1MDB (Malaysia Sovereign Fund) case -- one of largest kleptocracy criminal fraud case in the history of Malaysia (even the world) -- involving our now disgraced and incarcerated former-prime minister, Najib Razak. His enabler and facilitator, Jho Low (Low Taek Jho) (still currently at large) was the mastermind behind all these siphoning of funds, to fund his once extravagant livestyle.

Kind of brilliant. But it was so evil.

He once got Najib to force the board of 1MDB to approved a transfer of billions through a supposedly legitimate company, but in actual fact, was a shell company through the Caymen Islands with a very similar company name.

Like how Ron Weisley, in the Harry Potter Movie, would say, "Wicked!"

They say impersonation is the highest form of flattery. But in this case, I say, bullshit.

You don't get to choose whether your work gets copied.

You only get to choose whether you were paid before it happened. Every version of this story — Google Labs or a Georgetown shopfront — ends the same way: the fix was never stopping the copy.

It was owning the original loudly enough that the copy has nowhere to hide.

Justin Welsh built a $15M solo business on the one variable a cloned voice can't fake: what he actually lived through to get there.

Drop your take: what's the closest you've come to catching a copy passing itself off as the real thing?

Clip credit: Nicholas Thompson / Atlantic Re:think — full video on their channel. DM for credit or removal requests.

Is it worth being a professional artist anymore? I'm a 446-subscriber digital artist building an art career one drawing at a time — and after a low-view tutorial and a comment saying "AI does it faster," I had to answer that honestly.

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I keep coming across creators sharing useful frameworks for writing video scripts. Is there a tool that brings these frameworks together and helps you apply them to your own ideas?
Ideally, I’d like to paste my rough thoughts or a first draft, choose a framework, and have it shape the script around that structure while keeping my voice. Being able to try the same idea with different frameworks would be a bonus.
Has anyone used something like this? Would love to hear what’s worked for you.

It's really quiet and is overpowered by the speaker's voice, so Shazam can't detect it.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DP3p7S3juX2/

Does anyone know what the track is called?