People are making what appears to be fast and easy money just by posting clips to social media — but there’s a catch.

In December, rapper Bbno$ posted a message on social media announcing that he was quitting music. “As you guys know, I am for the people,” he wrote. “And the people have asked me to stop making music.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about how the internet works. I can usually tell if a piece of ...

Turning long-form podcasts and interviews into short-form social media clips has become a lucrative career for some. But others say it is a race to the bottom. Clips have conquered the internet, as in ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with the business writer Ed Elson about the rise of the “clip economy”—the idea that short video clips pulled from podcasts, livestreams, and ...