Naomi’s music distributor took her album down from Spotify “at my request” but… she never made that request. Between distributors and streaming platforms, musicians have very little control over how their music is published.
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These are the chapters: Intro: 0:00 But Ripley From Alien: 2:53 Go Woke Go Broke: 14:46 What is Grifting: 35:35 Ugly Female Characters: 1:00:49 The Media Grift Machine: 1:15:12 Th3Birdman: 1:25:23
A lot of folks call critics they don’t like grifters. They grift, apparently, on the culture war surrounding films and media…but very few people can actually explain what a grifter even is or how one becomes a grifter vs a bad critic you don’t like. In this video, we dive into the history of film criticism, the history of grifts surrounding film, as well as organize critics into a set of tiers, each one closer and closer to that designation of “grifter” to determine who is — and who isn’t — a grifter.
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