I think this post misconstrues how social media platforms work and why critics are less relevant today than ever, in order to excuse a simple lack of popularity and poor marketing practices on their favorite musician's side.
For example...
> And algorithms can only predict content that you've seen before. It'll never surprise you with something different.
... this is both nonsensical (recommendation algorithms don't predict content, but that you'll want to engage and will remain engaged by a given content), and to the extent it isn't, is just blatantly and demonstrably false, since there's at least one counterexample available, and that is my own anecdotal one.
Or...
> It makes it feel vast and exhausting, like an endless list of things that you'll never get to the end of.
... because it is. The sheer notion that back in the day you could have enumerated and gone through "all the local and foreign music releases" borders on comical. What you exhausted back then I'm pretty sure were the curated lists you were provided. Nothing less, nothing more.
The only "area" I follow with this much determination is anime, and one season (the year is split into four seasons that the entire industry aligns with) I decided to try and watch every show that releases, just to see what I've been missing out on, and if I had misjudged anything like people would often tell me. It's actually possible there, as it is very centralized and localized. Turns out that no, I was perfectly right on the money with my watch decisions, the people who were loudly gloating and hating indeed were loudly (and mindlessly) just gloating and hating, and that while it was technically viable to follow every release next to a full time job, it would suck me and all my free time completely dry, rendering the experience borderline tortureous. And this is still a relatively niche area of entertainment. Imagine "following the entirety of film and music". Ridiculous.
For example...
> And algorithms can only predict content that you've seen before. It'll never surprise you with something different.
... this is both nonsensical (recommendation algorithms don't predict content, but that you'll want to engage and will remain engaged by a given content), and to the extent it isn't, is just blatantly and demonstrably false, since there's at least one counterexample available, and that is my own anecdotal one.
Or...
> It makes it feel vast and exhausting, like an endless list of things that you'll never get to the end of.
... because it is. The sheer notion that back in the day you could have enumerated and gone through "all the local and foreign music releases" borders on comical. What you exhausted back then I'm pretty sure were the curated lists you were provided. Nothing less, nothing more.
The only "area" I follow with this much determination is anime, and one season (the year is split into four seasons that the entire industry aligns with) I decided to try and watch every show that releases, just to see what I've been missing out on, and if I had misjudged anything like people would often tell me. It's actually possible there, as it is very centralized and localized. Turns out that no, I was perfectly right on the money with my watch decisions, the people who were loudly gloating and hating indeed were loudly (and mindlessly) just gloating and hating, and that while it was technically viable to follow every release next to a full time job, it would suck me and all my free time completely dry, rendering the experience borderline tortureous. And this is still a relatively niche area of entertainment. Imagine "following the entirety of film and music". Ridiculous.