Apparently 12% of YouTube users are premium users.

But without the other 90% there would be less content, so subscriber numbers might even go down

Just like how everyone taking street drugs is directly supporting the black market drug trade. And all of the Mafias involved in it.

Instagram is extremely popular. At least here in my region.

Short form videos are extremely addictive. Once the algorithm knows what engages you, it is difficult to stop. And for people who used to use Facebook or who used to use the image sharing on Instagram, meta already knows what to serve them. If people only just try it once, maybe out of curiosity, maybe because someone shared a link, they will have a hard time stopping.

Normal algorithmic feeds are bad enough. But short form videos are on a whole different level.

What trustworthy source doesn’t have opinionated gatekeeping mass censorship?

That’s pretty much required to filter out the bullshit. You can’t avoid there being a few false positives

Match tickets would also be a reasonable use of NFTs.

But I guess it’s more profitable to have both. Second hand sellers and buyers pay a 15% resale fee instead

It is genuinely one of the most trustworthy sources.

Back in the day anyone could make edits. But these days they first have to be reviewed by peers.

It probably only filters for the machine readable markings that will be required in the EU starting next month.

But as soon as someone crops it in Photoshop it is indistinguishable from digital art made by humans

Microsoft isn’t the sort of company I would want to run a nuclear power plant. That’s a huge responsibility