Abstract:Several known Buzzfeed Creators have left the company’s toxic culture
by beginning a career as YouTubers. They hoped that their Buzzfeed audience would migrate to
support their company-independent channel. Often represented as a move towards independence
by creators, cultural production research (Nieborg & Poell, 2018; Burgess et al. 2020)
has shown that creators are platform and audience dependent for viability. Therefore, we are
questioning whether being an (in)dep… Show more
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