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they made a home on a platform once, they should be able to do it again. Staying on xitter or whatever is just kind of nonsense at this point.
Yes, and generally how that goes is from a point where they are just making art as a hobby to one where they rely on their audience to pay the bills. It's not such a trivial thing to start over.
audiences will rarely move from platform to platform. For content creators, we have to go to where our audience is, or provide an incentive to move elsewhere. That's the main reason why there hasn't been a decent competitor to YouTube, Twitter, nor Twitch. The audiences there are entrenched.
I'm sure if there was a platform they could jump to that would sustain their career, they would