The I-net starts off with a few comm portals and newsgroups, then blogs, later video blogs, and then so-called social combos of all the above. While millions of data stacks are collected the non-online legacy economy continues shrinking to the point where people on various social sites want a further piece of the action. So we get reading & media blog portals like Medium and it works for some but certainly not a majority as sustainable income.

Today the number of actors on the internet for income purposes has grown substantially. Still compared to all those that attempt online commerce of any kind, the number of successful people or satisfied internet workforce producers must be miniscule compared to the potential online audience or those that break some higher level of online income, like these so-called rich influencers. The numbers look to me like this is not a field to get into, much like the pro sport businesses always are hyping the big contract winners, but really most of them don’t last that long on their big sports contracts and even fewer stay well financed over time.

The internet is certainly useful, however achieving a sustainable lifestyle from producing goods and services online that consider themselves self employed is probably very tiny compared to all the wannabes.

In other words we all probably have very little reason to pay attention to internet influencers, there are so few of them that actually succeed, (or deliver viable anything(?)) especially when the main product is some ephemeral hype itself. Try and eat hype, not exactly a nourishing experience.