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 Murdoch Murdoch seems to have done a good job

Stonetoss, Foxford, Jinjerzilla, there are other creators

there doesn’t appear to be any serious actual big break into film, music, or publishing yet; most of the problem is that the gates are well and truly kept on most such channels, but that control is eroding as we speak 
 I think someone would have to do like Evan Royalty did on YT with his short films.
He raised almost $500k for a feature-length film but had to cancel because the venue he wanted to shoot in was leased before he had raised enough money. 
 @BunnygirlAbductor @BobsonDugnuttHB @2a615c74 $500k is shoestring for a real film, and you see why.
We would need $10mil for a real film, and advertising, and distribution. That’s all infrastructure we have to build up. Frankly, we need someone who could extend credit to these businesses, and be paid back, so they could lend out more, and we could build a real industry. In a lot of ways, this is what we need.
And we could get it. Look at how much that stupid Red Alert podcast gets paid. Serious fortunes could come out of this crowd, if it was run professionally. 
 You mean Red Scare? 
 @BunnygirlAbductor @BobsonDugnuttHB @2a615c74 Yeah. 
 A bunch of gay new Yorkers funded by their friends
There was an article in the NYT about how the writer canceled his subscription to them. An NYT writer 
 @BunnygirlAbductor @BobsonDugnuttHB @2a615c74 I think one of them is jewish. The dr for ya. 
It goes to show that we need to take that kind of money for ourselves. We need the infrastructure to support each other. We need the money flowing through it to do stuff and build it up.
It’ll probably require some young radicals with technical skill, talent, a willingness to work hard, and make very little money at the start, but I’m sure it’ll pay off.
A profitable and marketed zine would be a good start. 
 There are like a dozen at this point