I think this may be an entirely temporary effect in most (not all) cases. The cult-like claims of the ones praying on the great LLM altar become more obvious nonsense every day.

When this all comes crashing down. As it must. And little of value will be lost.

Yes. Doing that type of "content creation" is not a good deal IMO and probably pretty soul-destroying for anybody with an open mind on top of that.

Ok, lets go into details: Germany has a law (Paragraph 185 StGB) that make insults illegal as soon as they reach a certain threshold. That laws require a complaint by the person insulted. It has to be an insult, it does not apply to opinions or the like. Hence calling somebody an "asshole" may qualify, but calling them a "person with a negative contribution to society" probably does not in most circumstances.

So, no, this is NOT about "speech I do not agree with" at all. Incidentally, making such a complaint when there clearly was no insult is illegal and can get you fined.

I completely agree. Maybe Red Hat paid to have their name up there. Or maybe it is a slow-news day.

Exactly.

It is essentially a detail-level optimization. No idea why it even gets reported here. Maybe Red Hat paid to have their name up there.

I think the problem is that too many people picking acronyms know a lot less about tech than they think they do and fail to do minimal research. Kind of a small Dunning-Kruger effect.

I currently follow one somewhat casually. No products pushed, no marketing, rarely a sponsored stream and only ones where the topic actually fits with the rest of the content. Does not make them rich, but is a far better deal for the content creator because their audience will not evaporate from one moment to the next, because they will be there because of the person and the content created. Also makes for a far better long-term perspective. I think, for example, quite a few female "T&A streamers", will find they cannot keep it going as they get older. There are a lot of them and from some random samples I took on twitch, most really have nothing to offer besides their current looks.

The whole thing also comes with some risk for both sides, mostly of the parasocial kind and, interestingly, for some content creators reverse-parasocial risks. The way to deal with that as a creator or follower is to just keep the potential problem in mind and it mostly goes away. There is a risk of stalkers (mostly for female content creators), but statistically the likelihood of it getting more than annoying is pretty small and probably not a major threat overall. And, of course, idiots post crappy stuff online or send crappy messages, but that is a problem for anybody with public visibility. Filters (including paid services) and moderation typically fix that one.

That said, it looks like 1000 followers or so are quite enough to finance one content creator. Hence being mainstream or "big" is definitely not required.

If you mostly depend on essentially doing marketing, your revenue can dry up completely at the first hint of anything. Does not even have to be anything you said or did.

Yes, keep doubling down on the ignorance. That will work...

Also funny how currently right-wing run Italy has a ban on it...

Interesting. Thanks for posting that.

What is the purpose of your posting? Serious question.

A, sorry, "UK media". Not any less of a self-own though.