a lot of easy money for the chosen few means it's way harder to compete without already having money.
I'm not saying don't get paid, but I am saying that after a few sponsorships the pressure to Become A Production Team is high in ways that let sponsors choose what content people most people find trustworthy/worth watching. yet again. it's like there's a cycle of advertising and sponsorships/false-testimonials each waxing while the other wanes throughout the last century and now
second-order VC knock-on effect hell
