A dark cover with three stacked monospaced lines: 600 videos, $7,000 spent, retention: —

Nobody Cares About Your Effort (Marginalia #5)

The fifth Marginalia entry. A creator’s complaint — 600 videos, $7,000, two core issues identified — meets the coldest consensus in the comments: nobody cares about your effort, only the numbers matter. On an algorithm that never registers sacrifice, a viewer who never pays for the work, and the embarrassed ‘I’ that still insists on being seen.

October 16, 2026 · 1 min · Seditious Thoughts