Seeing it as a business is nothing unusual. Hard to find someone focused on creating content online fulltime not working to establish their brand; then selling merch for instance. Kind of difficult to be an artist or entertainer and avoid all aspects of the arts and entertainment industry.

People can run a business in life and have their usuals come in. Like a bar or coffee shop. It's not unusual to become friends with these people and shoot the shit with them. Of course treating them with respect and dignity. It's not an act.

I've always treated the money side of things like a business. I think it's great people show up to my party, and get rewarded, because I made the choice to manage my money in a way that grants me these opportunities.

And never in the history of arts and entertainment could someone come along to enjoy whatever it is being offered, not be charged a fee, and leave with more money than they started with.

The exact opposite of 'selling out'.

What is art without eyes? What is a joke without laughs? The people come before the money. Now look around. Look at all those blogs where folks post daily, for rewards, and not people. If they applied even the tiniest bit of business common sense and flipped it, working to impress and be interesting, they'd be making more, getting more views, and making a lot more friends. One cannot run a business by becoming disconnected to the people.

The truly disconnected types are the ones sitting there surrounded by silence, trying to earn, and nothing else. Thinking people are only there to sprinkle crypto on them.

Totally fine to just come here and shoot the shit as well, relax, have fun, do whatever. Nobody frowns upon that. Some people build parks, some people enjoy parks. Some people go to movies, some people make movies. Takes all kinds to build a community.