Presumably, many readers and friends have heard of the term "power generation with love", what is "power generation with love"? The term first came from Taiwan Province of China, where some people were fooled by environmental organizations and launched a demonstration demanding the suspension of the construction of nuclear power plants, while at that time, Taiwan Province of China was still engaged in environmental demonstrations such as the demolition of thermal power plants, facing questions from skeptics: "What power generation is used in power plants?" The group of environmentalists put up the slogan "Generate electricity with love."
The use of love to generate electricity is naturally nonsense, but this stem is widely spread in China, so that the subsequent evolution has become another meaning:"refers to some people or groups, free of charge or with very little benefit to do what they like." Friends who often visit the B station should also know that in the B station to give up the main tip, the name used is also "charging", in fact, it is also born from the same stem as "power generation with love".
Seeing this, it is estimated that some readers will wonder: "Xiao Lei, you muttered for half a day, what do you want to say?" Title party right? Wait a minute and drive the mud car to create fly you! ", cough, don't worry, how can Xiao Lei be the title party? It is just a feeling after seeing "power generation with love", because Xiao Lei occasionally goes to visit the "love power generation" website, and recently carried out a "big purge", and many creators have suffered.
If you don't know what the Love Power Generation website is for, let Xiao Lei come and talk to you.
Is Love Power Generation really "generating electricity with Love"?
If you are just an ordinary anime and fiction lover, and you are not very interested in the related secondary creations (secondary creations, such as human novels, illustrations, etc.) in the above fields, then there is a high probability that you have not heard of the website Of Love. After all, as a website serving creators, Ai power generation mainly provides creators with diversified online revenue generation methods, and also provides a channel for creators' fans to support creators.
Because the group of services is relatively niche, most ordinary netizens may not have heard of this website, but some "old drivers" may be exceptions. After all, if you really want to say, love power generation may have been the largest "welfare Ji" gathering place in China before, many famous welfare Ji have published their own photo albums, videos, etc. on this website, this we will talk about later, first talk about the love power generation this website.
With the development and growth of the Internet ecology, the creation and distribution of their own works is no longer a patent belonging to large publishers, and the birth of websites such as YouTube, bilibili and personal blogs allows everyone's voice, thoughts, and world to be seen by people who are connected to the Internet around the world.
The original creators basically "generated electricity with love", and maintained the update of videos, novels and other creative works with hobbies and persistence. In the past, YouTube hundreds of thousands of plays, may only be exchanged for a pizza, in the bilibili release video even no revenue, but when the field of secondary creation is valued by everyone, with the growth of the two-dimensional group, the first to stand up is the online video site, video fans finally have the means to monetize their hobbies and technology.
But outside of video, there are still not many ways to monetize hobbies such as novels, COSPLAY, and music, and for creators in these fields, they need a new platform to monetize their popularity. As a result, user paid subscription crowdfunding sites such as Ai power generation came into being, and the most popular Patreon has grown rapidly since its birth, bringing in more than $100 million in revenue for registered creators in 2017 alone.
The biggest difference between these sites and traditional crowdfunding sites is that users don't have to wait for the crowdfunding amount to reach a certain amount before they can get a return. In fact, the author has been creating, but you can choose to set part of the content as "supporters can see", if the user finds the author's work interesting, then you can pay 5 yuan, ten yuan or other amounts per month (mainly depending on the author's settings) to subscribe to the author's update and express support, and then you can always get the update push.
Compared with those fan works that need to be purchased for tens or even hundreds of yuan at a time, the low amount of support obviously makes it easier for creators who are not well-known to get user support. Therefore, fan-authors can use this to obtain a more stable income to support their own creations, rather than in the state of "watching the sky and eating".
With the success of Patreon, more and more creation sharing websites have begun to open similar functions, such as pixiv, which is familiar to two-dimensional enthusiasts, and the domestic is the love power generation platform, which provides creators with a stable source of income and supports their creations.
Moreover, creators are no longer limited to fan creation, with the support of stable income, some high-quality creators have begun to enter the field of originality, and many teams and individuals have produced some high-quality games, music and various works.
The biggest difference from traditional CreatorSharing sites is that these types of sites often don't limit the creator's creative field and content, because their monetization comes from the fees charged when providing creators with a platform and withdrawal operations. Therefore, in essence, the website itself is only a transit station for funds and a display platform for works, and there is not much control over the content released by creators on the platform, or there is not enough manpower and funds to manage the platform in the early days of its establishment.
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This gives some creators an opportunity to make some content "subscription visible" and "subscription-visible" content to be published without any review. Therefore, websites such as Patreon have quickly become a gathering place for niche adult games, videos, pictures and other works, and have developed rapidly with the support of enthusiasts.
Nowadays, it seems that whether it is love power generation or Patreon, it is no longer as simple as "generating electricity with love", in order to obtain more profits, many creators have begun to invest in their favor, creating some curious works, or more "radical" adult works, in exchange for more user subscriptions. With the proliferation of adult works, some new problems have begun to emerge, whether it is love power generation or Patreon to face - adult works control.
Love Power To clear out offending creators
Some time ago, there was a period of time did not pay attention to the love of power generation of small thunder, suddenly heard the group of friends to discuss their concern about the author of love power generation is banned, curious to open love power generation, found that there are indeed some authors of the work has been in an invisible state, the expected purge has indeed arrived.
In fact, Patreon has cleaned the excessive content on the platform as early as 2019, because Patreon's staff received reports that there was a large amount of "excessive" content on the platform, and then after a comprehensive exclusion, Patreon decided to remove the content and creators, and said that it would show a set of review standards in the future to prevent similar content from reappearing on the platform.
Overseas websites such as Patreon are still like this, and as a domestic platform, in an environment with stricter control over pornography and violence, it is very rare to start clearing relevant accounts until today. Xiao Lei believes that the main reason is the concealment brought by the subscription system, and the small traffic of the website, so that it has a chance to breathe (now that it has been blocked, Xiao Lei should not be considered a falling stone, right?). ）。
From the Weibo of Ai Power Generation, it has sent several microblogs in February, saying that the recent surge in website traffic has brought unexpected access pressure, resulting in users temporarily inaccessible. It can be seen that since February this year, Love Power Generation has begun to spread in a larger user group, bringing more user traffic while gradually entering the eyes of the regulatory authorities.
Some netizens may feel that the regulatory authorities have taken the inventory, in fact, from the results and situation, it should be the internal self-inspection initiated by Love Power Generation. Because if it is the regulatory authorities, it is impossible to just clear the creators so simple, at least it is to remove the App, temporarily shut down the creators, user registration, etc., until the platform is completed, and then open after paying the fine.
Moreover, even if it is an old two-dimensional, Xiao Lei does not think that if you want to get the support of users, you must take an indescribable route, the original intention of the creator platform was to let the creators and fans have a space for communication, while allowing fans to support their creators, rather than letting the platform become a trading place for pornography.
Everyone may think that Xiao Lei is a bit exaggerated, but in Xiao Lei's view, today's love power generation platform has deviated from the original intention to some extent, such as some authors of updated novels on pixiv, who often sell tens of thousands of words of pornographic novels written by themselves at a price of tens of yuan and hundreds of yuan, and these authors are not uncommon on the love power generation website.
In addition, there is the aforementioned welfare Ji problem, some COSER will set different price support programs, reaching a certain amount can unlock hidden libraries and even videos, as for which libraries and videos, should not need to say It? Is it nothing more than a larger scale, or even an adult-oriented work, or do you think that someone will spend thousands of dollars a month just to see COSER take some ordinary COSPLAY photos?
Even now, in the love of power generation can see a lot of creators who provide similar services, to be honest, Xiao Lei is not a saint, but in a platform set up to support creators under the slogan of artistic creation to sell some indescribable works, is it really no problem? If it leads to the platform being blocked, who will support these creators in the future?
Of course, not all Love Power Coser is to sell indescribable works, many COSER will only provide support fans with some additional makeup photos, take tidbits and other photos that are generally not public, and the price is often set very cheap, and will not be thousands of thousands.
To put it bluntly, if there is a real need, go to a platform that allows relevant content, whether it is pixiv or Onlinefans, can help your needs without worrying about regulatory issues. Although the payment threshold of the two is much higher (often requires PayPal or VISA credit card authentication), it can also prevent some minors from entering, which is a better choice for creators and users.
Nowadays, Love Power Generation has begun to control related content, although there are still many fish that have slipped through the net, but overall it has been greatly improved, at least it will not let the platform be banned inexplicably. Maybe some readers have to complain about "late arrival", but in the information age there is always no shortage of "enthusiastic netizens", there is really no need to stare at a creator platform, or let Love Power generation return to the road at the beginning of its establishment.