It sounds like you’re thinking there is no way to compete with Reddit. If you charge, people will use Reddit. If you have ads, people will use Reddit. People are only here because there aren’t ads and it’s free?

Satire is Life!

… Maybe life is dead

There’s still plenty of time for a proper title

But it’s a personal opinion, isn’t it? There’s no objectively “good” actor without clear criterion for definition of “good”.

There are genuinely “bad” actors. But you don’t see them much outside of community collage acting classes. But there accept ions to even that.

I’m not sure if this Mason guy is being serious or not

You specifically said his form of method acting comes off as cringe on screen. I’m saying you can’t tell a person’s technique by the end result alone. You may know from other sources but not solely by what you see on screen.

If you charge, you also have to offer a better experience than the free options. There’s no reason instances can’t use ads for people unwilling or unable to pay. For me I’ll gladly pay for an ad-free experience.

I don’t think you can really tell how an actor gets there by their end performance. And their behavior off screen is also unrelated. It seems like you have a hard time separating the person from the performance. Which is understandable, but something you should keep in mind when making assessments of any actor.

He certainly sounds like he’s annoying to work with. Which also makes me wonder why people would put up with him. Good actors aren’t rare, there of plenty of other options.

That’s not really how it works. If it was made to work that way, it would still be a relatively small group donating their own compute resources to subsidize everyone else. Which is what we already have, and isn’t very scalable.

He is actually a good actor. But there are plenty of those around. Which still makes me wonder the same thing.

The only real option is to charge people.
Hosting isn’t free. It costs money to run a website. That money needs to come from somewhere. If it doesn’t come from advertisers, it must come from users.

There could be a verity options for that. But I like the simple annual subscription. Each and every user pays. Spread out the cost as much as possible. It’s only fair.

She writes the lyrics.
He makes the music, with her input.

All producers are musicians.
Not all musicians are producers.

Why are you switching from Google? Is it privacy and data collection? Anything you switch to, will charge you, or sell your data. That’s just how it works.

Free isn’t a business model. Money needs to come from somewhere. If it’s not coming from you, it’ll be someone else.