Um, does it, um, uh, do you really need to have millions of followers to make money or can you, can you manage on a lot less than that?

No.

In fact, actually, I think it works better if your audience is more niche.

Uh, followers doesn't mean anything because they could be coming from all walks of life.

But, you know, especially for me, my audience is primarily a film and television and entertainment audience.

And so they're actually looking to me as an expert in my field to deliver the information, and that's where I built a trust and an authenticity with it.

If you're just kind of, you know, making content to go out to the masses, then that's, to Uptin's point, how are you gonna monetize that? 'Cause what exactly are you trying to give? 'Cause you build value by providing something to your audience, whether that's education, whether that's informational.

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Before we continue on this.

So obviously, the studio saw that they were running out of money.

Back in May 2022 was when Netflix finally made the announcement that changed the whole dynamic, which is like, we've plateaued on our subscriber growth.

And that was the beginning of the end, at least for where they started saying, oh, shit.

You know, we blew up this television model that worked great for about 70 years, and everybody was rushing so fast to get into streaming, especially during the pandemic, because all of a sudden you had all these people sitting at home, and they're watching television, right? And...

So Disney Plus is like, fuck yeah, get in on that.

Can I curse on your show? Yep.

But isn't there a way to have flowers frozen in a place?

you only did prestige reality.

Continue.

No, there's the ones that you have to pay the mortgage.

You know the ones I'm talking about.

We all do this.

But- When the strikes happened in 2023, I think we were all part of that downturn.

And I started out my career as a production assistant, and I worked all the way up to executive producer, showrunner.

Pit's fine.