Definitely closer to the first than the second. I’m not trying to touch on the second at all, but I also don’t think the first is entirely accurate either. In all honesty, I’m having trouble articulating what it is that I am trying to articulate. Let me give it another stab:
Imagine a metric that encapsulated everything related to quality. Call it “encapsulated quality”. (I’m not just trying to point at “raw quality” alone in this post. I am totally onboard with the idea that various other things matter.)
Imagine a world where “encapsulated quality” leads to reception pretty reliably.
In that world, I’d expect people like Massimo to have much, much more reception, and people like Random Shitty YouTuber With Hundreds of Thousands of Views to have much less reception. Do you disagree with that?
Those expectations I have aren’t matching various things I’ve been observing in this world.
Therefore, I’m developing a strong inclination that quality doesn’t reliably lead to reception in our world. Instead, like MaximumSkull says, it’s more that it helps stack the deck in your favor.
Definitely closer to the first than the second. I’m not trying to touch on the second at all, but I also don’t think the first is entirely accurate either. In all honesty, I’m having trouble articulating what it is that I am trying to articulate. Let me give it another stab:
Imagine a metric that encapsulated everything related to quality. Call it “encapsulated quality”. (I’m not just trying to point at “raw quality” alone in this post. I am totally onboard with the idea that various other things matter.)
Imagine a world where “encapsulated quality” leads to reception pretty reliably.
In that world, I’d expect people like Massimo to have much, much more reception, and people like Random Shitty YouTuber With Hundreds of Thousands of Views to have much less reception. Do you disagree with that?
Those expectations I have aren’t matching various things I’ve been observing in this world.
Therefore, I’m developing a strong inclination that quality doesn’t reliably lead to reception in our world. Instead, like MaximumSkull says, it’s more that it helps stack the deck in your favor.