The secondary market cut the royalties completely, and many people are shouting "Creators have no future."

I actually think it's more embarrassing that: was that small royalty fee before really the value of the work, or was it just a liquidity tax for mutual flattery?
A quick look on-chain makes it clear—if the transaction shrinks, the royalties evaporate along with it, honestly it’s pretty much an illusion.

Social mining, fan tokens, that "attention is mining" approach—same story, the slogan sounds great, but change the data standards and it’s all bubbles: does artificially inflated attention count?
Do the wool-pullers count as fans?
If income heavily depends on secondary matching, then creators are actually betting on market sentiment, not selling content.

I'm not against royalties, I just think the money should be shifted from "number of resales" back to "real consumption": subscriptions, tickets, rights delivery—slow as it may be, at least it’s not so fake.
Anyway, seeing that fake prosperity of TVL + high turnover rate makes my scalp tingle.