How Being A "Creator" Went From Cringe To Aspirational (And Profitable)

Mike talks with Avi Gandhi - the Chair of Government Advocacy for the Creators Guild of America - and Tim Shey - founder and president of Next New Networks - about the recognition of content creators as small businesses by the Small Business Administration of the US, and the shifting sense of the word creator over the last 15 years.–BUY A TSHIRT! RIGHT HERE!POST ON REDDIT, RIGHT HERE!BECOME A MEMBER! RIGHT HERE!– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –Creating CreatorsAvi Gandhi https://creatorsguildofamerica.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/avigandhi Tim Shey https://creatorama.substack.com/ https://shey.net/ Sources Bishop, Sophie, and Brooke Erin Duffy. “The Feminization of Social Media Labor.” In The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology, 1st ed., edited by Deana A. Rohlinger and Sarah Sobieraj. Oxford University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197510636.013.35. Craig, David, and Tanner Mirrlees. “The Creator Function, Post-Structuralism, and the Perils of Terminological Dissonance.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 29, no. 1 (2026): 38–56. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779251380599. Duffy, Brooke Erin. “Gendering The Labor Of Social Media Production.” Feminist Media Studies 15, no. 4 (2015): 710–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1053715. Ilan, Jonathan. “The Hustle Society: Mainstream Precarity, Voracious Entrepreneurialism, Grift and Exploitation in Contemporary Culture.” The British Journal of Criminology, April 16, 2026, azag033. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azag033. Jarrett, Kylie. “The Relevance of ‘Women’s Work’: Social Reproduction and Immaterial Labor in Digital Media.” Television & New Media 15, no. 1 (2014): 14–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476413487607. McClanahan, Annie, Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Napoli et al., De Gruyter Handbook of Technology, Media, and Democracy. Paterson, Alex. Rendering the Whole World Blank: Precarity, Totalising Fear and Digital Scrolling. n.d. –Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer is Kurt White. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.but you find what you look for:the shortest distance between two pointsendless universes, a life of beautiful self-descriptionExcerpt of Reason, by Craig WatsonzNever Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Originally published on July 2nd, 2025, enjoy this episode in which Mike examines the way that gambling has become so ubiquitous online. –Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments!– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –Posting In The Age of Chance  Trapped - the secret ways social media is built to be addictive (and what you can do to fight back) Everything in America is Gambling Now - Adam Conover Tiny Subversions (2014) - Darius Kazemi Tiny Subversions (2024) - Darius Kazemi The Online Gambling Epidemic - Drew Gooden You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information - Hank Green –Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.–Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia.

Mike talks with Caio Almendra — writer, podcast host and organizer with Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party — about how the internet helped Lula de Silva win the Brazilian Presidential Election. Also, news! –Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments!– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –NewsTSHIRT! FOR YOU! HERE IT IS! SHIRT SHIRT SHIRT SHIRT! Microsoft offers buyouts to 60k staffers Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program NY plans stronger sports betting regulation Signal won't comply with Canadian surveillance bill Google says surveillance is "problematic" AI music fraud scheme lands man in jail Social media's role in Brazil election race –How The Brazilian Left Won An Election with the InternetFind Caio  Superstructure Podcast Intercept Brazil Brazilian Institute of Data Science Alameda Institute –Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.–Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia.

For a special Halloween-themed feed drop, we've got something particularly spooky for you. Georgia was recently on Proxy with Yowei Shaw — another amazing Radiotopia show — to discuss an especially...creepy conundrum that plagues her digital life. -Proxy with Yowei Shaw: Georgia Is Terrified of the TitanicGeorgia Hampton knows the Titanic can't hurt her. So why does just looking at a picture fill her with dread? And can she make the fear go away?We find her a proxy who has spent decades helping people overcome their most irrational fears.Get Georgia's internet rabbit holes and Martin's free guides to overcoming phobias in Proxy's newsletter. Sign up for free at proxyhq.org. -Proxy investigates the emotional mysteries that run our lives and world — sometimes by finding someone who gets it, sometimes by reporting from the emotions beat. Hosted by Yowei Shaw, former co-host and editorial lead of Invisibilia.Follow the show so you don’t miss the next case. Follow us on Instagram: @proxypodcast @yoweishawGet in touch at [email protected] you’re new, try: Bisexual Wife Guy, Yowei Can't Speak Bro, or Jane Doesn't Like Her Dogs.

Stephen Carlsen died in 2025. His family knew vaguely that he had worked on creating the file format TIFF, but it was his nephew, Nathan Carlsen, who kicked off a quest for the full story. This week, senior producer Hans Buetow talks with Nathan about his oral history project to document his uncle’s work, and we hear a fascinating conversation that Nathan had with Donovan Cameron, a First Nation GIS specialist who uses the TIFF in unexpected ways.–Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments!– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –Mr. TiffFind Nathan: Podcast: Inquisitive Pontification Original Reddit Post Find Donovan: Website Documentary about Treaty 8 territories Living Proof by Terry Tobias –Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.–It comes like this.With tiny fingers screeching along the sidewalk screechingscreeching waitingmore than waiting.It comes like this.Writing a spasmotic gait of atoo quick operation speechlike the broke spoke ofwheels of things ofmachine crossed human crossed withmachine metal grindinggrinding toofast for its own functionIt comes like thisExceprt of FLOOD WATCHING by Elizabeth Fodaski –Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia.

Originally published on April 9th, 2025, enjoy this episode in which Mike talks with psychotherapist Kurt White about how the internet may help us become ourselves. –Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments!– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –Any Rigid Idea About Yourself is a PrisonKurt White Unravelling podcast LinkedIn –Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.Your business in this worldYour nakedness and terrorYour sanctity remainsthe crucial battleDearly beyondWe are scattered here todayamongst commoditiesThis town isn’t big enoughfor trustExcerpt of The Concept of Dread by Pam RehmNever Post is a production of Charts & Leisure, and is distributed by Radiotopia

Georgia chats with Ludwig Hurtado of MOLD Magazine's "Food Futures" podcast about luxury grocery brands and the Highsnobiety “Status Report,” that says fashion is dead and food is in.–Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments!– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –The Tyranny of Taste Highsnobiety’s Status Economy Report Highsnobiety’s report on groceries specifically In the status economy, even groceries are a flex Find Ludwig: Twitter Instagram Food Futures Play zine –Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.spore print of mushroom in the retina, in my dreamslens displacement in the multi-cellular darkabyssal sound of leaves in the windrushing cloud dance before the sky closes inexcept of It Is Difficult to Exaggerate the Importance of Mushrooms as Food, by Chris TorranceNever Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia.

Mike chats with Maia Woluchem and Cella Sum – co-authors of The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania – about the fight against Data Centers happening across Pennsylvania.–Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments!– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –News Links ICE agents could be targeted by fake "tradwife" dating profiles Discord Launches Delayed Age Verification Measures OpenAI agent hacked Australian govt website Railroad work crews cut fiber optic cable, grounding flights Trump fires FAA air traffic control employees post-DC plane crash Did Trump’s FAA slash the staffing target for air traffic control? Bill would require blocking piracy sites Church groups ask Microsoft for 1% of data center costs PA town pushes back on data center despite $10k payout –The AI Factory The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit –Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.These newfangled ghosts haunt by telephone and airwave. Acumen will finally languish in a good sense: type would bottle a new motto in live numbers and wine were they only not printers with so many thoughts to slip in media res or the thick of things at grasp root level up a slope on themselves. Our notion of productive labor becomes narrowed to the use of censure and science to ensure I am baffled as Yeats by those voices that still speak to Oddysseus but as the bats.Excerpt of Shadow Recension by Alan HalseyNever Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia.

Originally published on April 10th, 2024, enjoy a conversation between Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop and Executive Producer Jason where they talk about what pop-musical acts have sounded like the internet.–Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments!– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –What Does the Internet Sound Like?You should listen to Switched on Pop generally, but also here’s the interview they did with 100 gecs.–Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

After a confusingly whirlwind week on the AI battlelines, senior producer Hans Buetow seeks the counsel of researcher Dave Karpf to understand what the heck even happened in the past week with all the tweet storms, screeds, panics, and prognostications - is AI going to kill us all in 10 years or not?!?!??–Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments!– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –The World's Most Special Boys Building the ApocalypseFind Dave Karpf: Website Bluesky Blog New book - Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present Links: Jacob Coxon’s thread (X) Dario Amodei’s response (blog) Lina Khan’s response (X) Sam Alman and Elon Musk’s responses (News18) Cal Newport (podcast) Kat Tenbarge (Spitfire) Ciaran Martin (The Economist) Will Knight (Wired) How Much of the Internet is Written With AI? (Pew) Young Adults in the US Are Increasingly Wary of AI (Pew) Half of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work (Reuters) Pro-Human Assembly (MSN) AI Diplomacy (Politico) –Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia