There are lots of factors, but a big one is the rise and normalization of tipping services like Ko-fi and "creator" subscription services like Patreon/SubscribeStar. With these making it possible to start the e-begging from very small scales (which stop seeming so small once you start to account for exchange rates, see any modern scanlation credits page produced by overconfident ESLs) with little downside, everyone sees others doing it and feels like a sucker if they're the only ones not.
That plus decline of material circumstances, generational exposure to muh hustle culture (which insists that any activity that isn't performatively monetizable is to be purged from one's life), breakdown of the longer/slower/more "intimate" forms of Internet interaction which would provide the feedback and nonmaterial rewards that grows a scene, the list goes on...
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2023-10-09 19:21:21
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2023-10-09 19:21:21Event JSON
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