We pull back the curtain on the Clip Economy — the hidden industry where streamers pay teenagers thousands of dollars a month to flood TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts with manufactured viral content.

We break down how Andrew Tate pioneered the paid clipping model, how figures like Clavicular and Gymskin rose to fame through coordinated clip campaigns, and why context is dying in the age of the algorithm.

In this episode:

→ What the Clip Economy is and how it works

→ How streamers industrialized virality with Discord servers and affiliate links

→ Why short-form content is designed to strip away context

→ What this means for your media diet

Inspired by Charlie Warzel's Rise of the Clip Economy (The Atlantic) and Deon Nash's exposé on manufactured viral content.

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