Are Sanctioned Suicide mass posters content creators?

[noname223]

If yes how can I monetize my success? I can't live solely from the internet fame I get. Do I have to fart in glas bottles and sell it to you guys and girls? Or do I have to take a bath and sell the water with which I cleaned myself?

I already said if there were ads shown on SaSu we the creators should get a piece of that cake. I can very well imagine that brands want to get associated with a forum like this one. Maybe Meta, Amazon and X want to profit of the high reputation of this forum. Maybe one day Elon Musk buys this forum and we all get rich.

I had this idea for this thread when I listened to a lecture about media consumption. Why do some readers turn to smaller content creators and not to high quality gatekeepers of the press.
I mean you can read my posts on SaSu for free. I am not sure if they have the same quality as articles of a good newspaper. There are some really bad op-ed columns in German news media I might can compete with that.

But why do people actually read my threads and posts? Maybe I am relatable, sometimes funny and self-aware, maybe out of pity, maybe to distracts oneself from one's own issus, maybe out of boredom.

Why do I spend my free time on SaSu? Why do I debate people on politics on here.

The people on here are real, genuine and compassionate. The forum is alive not like most other forums. And I am contributing my part to it. I like a lot of people on here. I like it to be raw and unfiltered. I could not be like that on other platforms. And you can easily get mocked in other platform if you are vulnerable.

 

[Dejected 55]

Posting on a forum is like running out into the streets and shouting to your neighbors. We're giving it away for free. It's public domain the moment you shout it.

 

[fedup1982]

Posting on a forum is like running out into the streets and shouting to your neighbors. We're giving it away for free. It's public domain the moment you shout it.

I did that once. Shouted at my neighbours across the fence. 30 minutes later I had 8 police officers jump on me and I spent the next 2 months in a psych ward. So yeh i know how that goes now

 

[Dejected 55]

I did that once. Shouted at my neighbours across the fence. 30 minutes later I had 8 police officers jump on me and I spent the next 2 months in a psych ward. So yeh i know how that goes now

I've never done that... I think I've seen others doing it... but I can't remember seeing anything happen to them over it, though.

 

[fedup1982]

I've never done that... I think I've seen others doing it... but I can't remember seeing anything happen to them over it, though.

Apparently they were concerned for my well being and relayed it to emergency services, I guess that explains it

 

[Dejected 55]

Apparently they were concerned for my well being and relayed it to emergency services, I guess that explains it

I guess it depends on what you were yelling and how you were yelling it.

I used to go to comic book conventions. There was a long stretch where I didn't go for years, and then post-COVID I started going again until last year when I lost my job.

Anyway, there was one convention I used to go to every year, and there was ALWAYS a guy or two, sometimes a girl with them, outside the front of the convention center the WHOLE WEEKEND yelling about everyone going to hell... and it made for a crazy surreal scene with people cosplaying as various anime characters, Klingons, and super-heroes being yelled at about how they were sinners going to hell as they were going to a family-friendly comic convention.

Nobody ever called the cops on those obviously crazy people in front of the place.

 

[fedup1982]

I guess it depends on what you were yelling and how you were yelling it.

I used to go to comic book conventions. There was a long stretch where I didn't go for years, and then post-COVID I started going again until last year when I lost my job.

Anyway, there was one convention I used to go to every year, and there was ALWAYS a guy or two, sometimes a girl with them, outside the front of the convention center the WHOLE WEEKEND yelling about everyone going to hell... and it made for a crazy surreal scene with people cosplaying as various anime characters, Klingons, and super-heroes being yelled at about how they were sinners going to hell as they were going to a family-friendly comic convention.

Nobody ever called the cops on those obviously crazy people in front of the place.

It makes me feel special having that much attention being given to me yeah i was shouting stuff like they should shut up their fking dog

 

[Dejected 55]

It makes me feel special having that much attention being given to me yeah i was shouting stuff like they should shut up their fking dog

Hmmm... maybe they should have shut up their fucking dog :)

 

[Forever Sleep]

Sure, we're doing it to entertain ourselves and others- hopefully. Like creating a mutual source of distraction.

I'm so glad it isn't monetized though. It's such a relief to not have to watch an advert after every three posts or something. I can't imagine any company would want to be associated with a forum freely discussing suicide.

I suppose I have my own bias against social media and the need to be adored. To collect followers and likes. Maybe it's natural to want to feel appreciated and, part of a group but, I've never liked competition much.

If you want to be monetized for your writing, have you considered journalism? Although, I guess AI could probably now identify you from here- if someone used it for that.

 

[Dejected 55]

Randomly, I found some posts of mine in a Google search earlier. I forget what I was searching for... but I have some responses in the non-private section that gets archived for public search... so that was interesting.

 

[katara]

Why do I debate people on politics on here.

 

[Pluto]

 

[TAW122]

I don't consider myself a 'content creator' at least in the sense of like just doing things for popularity. Most of my lengthy articles stem from my thoughts, experiences, and things I find interesting. I partly do it to vent and to have a space where I can express myself (which I couldn't do anywhere else!), but also part of me has a drive and motivation that perhaps some of my works may influence the pro-choice philosophy and stance even long after I'm no longer around (one day).

 

[EmptyBottle]

maybe... I do end up creating a moderate amount of text "content" in the forum.

And somehow managed to get 1200+ non games posts within 6 months, surprisingly... that is a lot of words to read.

I'm glad it isn't monetised... we would have ppl sugarcoating their therapy experiences just to get $ from BetterHelp or whatever other therapy company. We might have suspiciously positive posts about antidepressants and sleeping pills, which mislead others, earning money for Big Pharma in the process. There are a lot of unfortunate ways the site can be monetised...

However, not all is bad about monetisation. Legitimate therapy sites might ask for honest opinions... people can sell art to each other here, etc. Just has to be done ethically.