How streaming platform Dropout.TV is proving Hollywood wrong

The modern media landscape can seem bleak. There are monolithic major media corporations becoming exponentially more powerful, like the new Skydance, Comcast and Walt Disney. This power is only further exacerbated when already billionaire tech bros get a piece of the action, with Elon Musk recently making a $1 billion investment in the new corporate powerhouse Skydance. On the other hand, you have the content creator economy, which mostly benefits the social media companies whose platforms get their revenue generated for them without any effort from the corporation. Media today is either controlled by giant corporate overlords whose goal is to make money for their investors, or individual creators who make their own content, which still ends up padding the pockets of more corporate media overlords. In comes Dropout. Formerly CollegeHumor, Dropout is the perfect middle ground between the power of corporate backing and the creative freedom of content creators.

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