The Scales of Justice

The Creator Power Scale: A Formula to Determine if Platforms are Ripping You Off

An examination of the Twitch Hack data

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Jeremy Meyer over 3 years ago

This is great. I haven’t seen any other attempt to breakdown the aspects of a creator-platform relationship like this and I can’t think of any points you missed. Will be considering this formula.

Interesting points about the power laws at play and aggregation being the main benefit of a platform. I’m really hoping platforms will build rich curation and discovery into their platforms to help build out the long fat tail of successful niches that people would naturally want. Tiktok is interesting how they are doing this somewhat, albeit just pure algorithmically, but their content is rather constrained in form, so maybe a more rich medium, like storytelling, education and knowledge-sharing, or games would be an even better fit for the kind of thing I’m talking about.

Jeremy Meyer over 3 years ago

“…streamers will talk with viewers and play video games. These guys, and they are almost universally guys…”
Nah, that’s not the case. It’s majority male, but nowhere near as lopsided as you make it out to be haha. More like 65-35 or something. https://www.statista.com/statistics/633937/twitch-user-gender-worldwide/