Don't Call Them Shills.... Content Creators Are the New Media.

Great article from Medicine For The Dead:

"A troubling trend we’re recently seeing and hearing from some (mostly black pillers naturally) is when someone builds a following and then monetizes their video channel, Substack, or platform and sure enough the accusations start:

Shill.

Here’s why this is way off the mark people:

From big timers like Steve Bannon, right down to folks like Dave from The X-22 Report, JP Sears, from AwakenWithJP, and others many of us might follow, a lot of them are also endorsing and selling products along with their content.

And this is not a bad thing. This is how a free market works.

This is how they’re making a living outside of the traditional way where you have to be sponsored by corporations who pull all the strings and then can stifle what you put out.

These folks have created new sources of information that are free and self sufficient and aren’t beholden to anyone but their audience.

That’s the whole idea behind being an independent content creator.

So when someone asks for tips, charges $5 a month for premium access, or has content behind a paywall, this is how they’re financing themselves to be able to do what they do."

more at link:

https://medicineforthedead.substack.com/p/dont-call-them-shills?s=r