on average, i’m earning 3x as much from bandcamp FLAC sales compared to what i earn off streaming. Hasn’t been ruined so far.

It’s the good shit

If you want that long tail, bandcamp and soundcloud are better sources. The barrier to entry is low with those, and there’s a plethora of small, niche artists just doing their own thing.

For a representative snapshot of music though, it’s pretty amazing. It shows what a massive percentage of the planet listens to, preserved hopefully across many seeds, and historians will love shit like this in the future.

i’m watching my peers turning into the hypocritical boomers they once hated in real time, as they forget how brainrotted ABS/newgrounds/YTMD were.

Rusty spoon would be more satisfying.