‘Traffic rewards’, ‘algorithmic visibility’, and ‘advertiser satisfaction’: How Chinese short-video platforms cultivate creators in stages

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Platforms have changed ecosystems so stakeholders face loss of autonomy, risk, and uncertainty.

“They highlighted that platforms have changed the ecosystems in which stakeholders should deal with 'a loss of autonomy, risk, and uncertainty'.”

• cites Nieborg and Poell (2018) sourceSupported

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Platform dependency names the growing closeness between cultural producers and platforms.

“Nieborg and Poell (2018) proposed the platform dependency to describe the increasingly close relationship between cultural producers and platforms.”

• cites Nieborg and Poell (2018) sourceSupported

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Wanghong, Chinese creative workers, form a growing group that participates actively and wants stable pay.

“Chinese creative workers ('Wanghong') are a socially growing group, with active participation and a desire for stable remuneration (Lin, 2018), showcasing real life in different regions with the help of platform affordances (Craig et al., 2021).”

• cites Lin, 2018 sourcePartly supported

  The introductory discussion (International Journal of Cultural Studies 00(0), page unavailable) says secure state-company jobs attract Chinese creative workers in precarious cultural industries. That lends limited support to an interest in stable employment, but the paper concerns workers in state-owned cultural enterprises; it does not identify them as Wanghong or establish that Wanghong are a growing, actively participating group seeking stable pay. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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• cites Craig et al., 2021 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

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Algorithms set visibility levels and are built into visibility-promotion mechanisms, including imbalanced cases.

“Algorithms determine the level of visibility and are also embedded in the mechanism of promoting visibility, even in the cases of imbalance (MacDonald, 2021;Neyland and Möllers, 2017).”

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• cites Neyland and Möllers, 2017 sourcePartly supported

  The “Algorithmic IF…THEN rules” section (p. 5) says the rules help distinguish video data that can be ignored from people and things needing further scrutiny, supporting an unequal allocation of attention. But the paper does not describe algorithms as determining general visibility levels or as a mechanism for promoting visibility; “Achieving Conditions” (p. 10) also says the distinction depends on associations among people, maps, and classifications, not algorithms alone. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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Emotional labor functions as a professional skill for managing social relationships.

“The classical studies on the labor process consider the emotional labor as a professional skill in the process of social relationship management (Brook, 2013).”

• cites Brook, 2013 sourceSupported

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Metrics measure follower responses to creators' emotional labor, which is tied closely to their income.

“They quantify the feedback from followers on the emotional labor that creators put in, which is closely related to the income level of the creators (Johnson and Woodcock, 2019).”

• cites Johnson and Woodcock, 2019 sourcePartly supported

  The Methodology section (page unavailable) describes streaming as performative work that mobilizes affect and emotion. “Monetization Strategy 1: Subscribing” says streamers display subscriber counts and that paid subscriptions contribute to their income. The paper does not establish that these metrics measure followers’ responses specifically to creators’ emotional labor, or that emotional labor is closely related to creators’ income levels. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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A key Douyin tactic is creating an atmosphere where creativity is supported, which raises creators' expectations for attention to their posts.

“One of the key tactics used by Douyin consists in creating an atmosphere where creativity is supported by the platform, so that creators will have higher expectations for the attention directed to their posts.”

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Douyin allocates exposure and Internet traffic to new creators and created Dou+, a paid traffic marketing tool that exploits the visibility of creative work.

“Douyin not only binds exposure and allocates Internet traffic to new creators, but also develops Dou+, a traffic marketing tool that leverages the affordances of creative work visibility.”

• Also stated in: § Introduction · plain

  “Douyin not only binds exposure and allocates Internet traffic to new creators, but also develops Dou+, a traffic marketing tool that takes advantage of the visibility of creative work on Douyin.”

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Douyin automatically identifies uploaded videos/images and recommends matching hashtags with previous view counts, which is the first step in cultivating revenue awareness.

“When creators enter the interface to edit and post content, Douyin first automatically identifies the uploaded video and image.”

• Also stated in: § 'My content can be rewarded': Cultivating and retaining creator revenue awareness · plain

  “Building a correlation between hashtags with concrete numbers is the first step in cultivating revenue awareness.”

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Most interviewees viewed Star-Chart as an added income stream and thought it or Douyin made creative-to-revenue conversion stable, while platform or advertisers constrained expression.

“Most of the interviewees saw Star-Chart as a new source of income provided by Douyin, and even the platform or advertisers guide and restrict their freedom of expression.”

• Also stated in: § 'My content can be rewarded': Cultivating and retaining creator revenue awareness · plain

  “They believe that Star-Chart or Douyin stabilized the process of turning creativity into revenue.”

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Douyin employs several tools for content monetization and gradually fosters creators' need for revenue.

“Based on the study on Douyin's business strategies, and the in-depth interviews with professional creators, it is deduced that the platform uses multiple tools to monetize content, and progressively nurtures the revenue needs of creators.”

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Many interviewed creators believe these tools are the best way to quickly accumulate traffic and an important way to evaluate commercial value on Douyin.

“Many of them believe that this is the best way to quickly accumulate traffic, and an important approach to evaluate the commercial value of Douyin.”

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Douyin introduced the Creator Service Center and Mass Tasks, which give rewards for advertiser-platform tasks and are available to every creator.

“Douyin has also launched the 'Creator Service Center', which provides multiple tools to help creators improve the visibility of their content.”

• Also stated in: § 'My content can be rewarded': Cultivating and retaining creator revenue awareness · plain

  “It has the 'Mass Tasks' function, which offers rewards for tasks jointly issued by advertisers and Douyin (Figure 2), and is open to all the creators.”

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Interviewees #9 and #12 reported that Star-Chart made content-to-revenue conversion easier and their work more satisfying.

“Interviewees #9 and #12 said that the Star-Chart has largely simplified the process of turning content into revenue and made the creators' work more fulfilling.”

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Douyin introduces policy combinations to support content monetization so newcomers realize the platform controls algorithms and traffic and that traffic can be distributed or purchased.

“Consequently, different 'combos' of policies are introduced to support content monetization, ensuring that newcomers to the platform can quickly realize that the platform has some control over algorithms and traffic, and thus traffic can be distributed or purchased at any time.”

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Star-Chart allows advertisers to post orders with clear task indices that creators accept, and creators need more than 10,000 followers to access tasks.

“Advertisers can unilaterally post advertising orders with a clear task index (specific amounts or actual view counts) in the system, which are accepted by creators.”

• Also stated in: § 'My content can be rewarded': Cultivating and retaining creator revenue awareness · plain

  “According to the requirements for Star-Chart access, creators can take advertising tasks only if they have more than 10,000 followers.”

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Douyin guides creators into the Star-Chart content trading system and builds a platform-advertiser-creator transaction chain.

“The platform then directs creators through the Star-Chart content trading system, and establishes the platform-advertiser-creator transaction chain.”

• Also stated in: § 'My content can be rewarded': Cultivating and retaining creator revenue awareness · plain

  “Under the dominance of Douyin, the creators and the advertisers are firmly bound together on the basis of Star-Chart, which develops the platform-advertiser-creator transaction chain.”

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In 2021, a Weibo creator contributed a video entitled 'Douyin, recording the same good life', showing three different creators reciting the same lines, taking the same picture perspective, and using the same video length.

“In 2021, a Weibo creator contributed a video entitled 'Douyin, recording the same good life', showing three different creators reciting the same lines, taking the same picture perspective, and even using the same video length.”

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Douyin's content censorship enforces government policies and also punishes creators who do not follow the platform's business rules.

“Douyin's content censorship is not only the enforcement of government policies (Ye and Zhao, 2023).It also punishes the creators who do not follow the platform's business rules.”

• cites Ye and Zhao, 2023 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

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Most interviewees said the content they post on Douyin daily has nothing to do with real life and they only run accounts for income.

“Most of the interviewees said that the content they post on Douyin every day has nothing to do with real life, and that they only run accounts for income.”

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To earn income, the interviewed creators strictly follow the standardized content production process, which weakens the authenticity part of their content.

“In order to earn income, the interviewed creators strictly follow the standardized content production process, which weakens the authenticity part of their content.”

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The Creator Learning Center does not explain the mechanism of traffic distribution by Douyin's algorithm.

“On the other hand, the Creator Learning Center does not explain the mechanism of traffic distribution by the algorithm of Douyin.”

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The platform can reward creators with traffic or stop distributing traffic at any time.

“(1) the platform can either reward the creators with traffic or stop distributing traffic at any time”

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Douyin gives creators a stable income route through an incentivized and purchasable design, which builds an ecosystem that reduces algorithmic invisibility and income instability.

“Douyin provides the creators with a stable income path, with an incentivized and purchasable design, which develops an ecosystem for creators to reduce the invisibility of the algorithms and income instability.”

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Douyin proactively provides creators with visible and purchasable traffic tools such as Dou+ and stable income functions such as Star-Chart, giving them a predictable content profit prospect.

“Douyin proactively provides creators with visible and purchasable traffic tools, such as Dou+, and stable and sustainable income functions, such as 'Star-Chart', giving them a full sense of the predictable content profit prospects.”

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Douyin strictly controls the conditions of content visibility and trains creators to produce content visible to the platform's algorithm and recognized by the revenue mechanism.

“On the one hand, Douyin strictly controls the conditions of content visibility and trains the creators to produce content that is visible to the platform's algorithm and recognized by the revenue mechanism.”

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Platforms have the ultimate right to interpret and implement business strategies and can change content monetization settings at any time.

“They have the ultimate right to interpret and implement the business strategies, and can change the setting of content monetization at any time.”

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Douyin does not have an official definition of 'traffic limiting'.

“Douyin does not have an official definition of 'traffic limiting'.”

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The platform can help creators find and match advertisers and can unite advertisers to censor creators' content.

“(2) the platform cannot only help the creators find and match advertisers, but also unite the advertisers to censor the creators' content.”

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Creators' reliance on emotional support from followers weakens and is replaced by a production assembly line that turns independent creative work into standardized content.

“In addition, the creators' reliance on emotional support from the followers is gradually weakening, instead of a production assembly line that transforms the independent and creative work into standardized content.”

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Social exchange is defined by reciprocity, where each party depends on the other.

“Cropanzano and Mitchell (2005) state that reciprocal exchange, in which both parties rely on each other, is a defining feature of social exchange.”

• cites Cropanzano and Mitchell (2005) sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

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Changes in platform policies often unsettle the authenticity and commerciality of creative work.

“According to a previous study (Arriagada and Ibáñez, 2020), the authenticity and commerciality of the creative work are often shaken by the changes of the platform policies.”

• cites Arriagada and Ibáñez, 2020 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

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Douyin provides favorable incubation conditions for content monetization and reduces the precariousness of visibility caused by algorithms.

“It seems that Douyin provides desirable incubation conditions for content monetization, and minimizes the precariousness of visibility resulting from algorithms.”

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YouTube creators obtain significant economic value by self-branding and commodifying content through visibility.

“Creators on YouTube gain substantial economic value from the selfbranding and commodification of content through visibility (O'Meara, 2019).”

• cites O'Meara, 2019 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

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Star-Chart reduces the information gap between creators and advertisers, matches their needs, and completes commercialization of creative work on the platform.

“Star-Chart reduces the information gap between creators and advertisers, matches the needs of both creators and advertisers, and thus completes the commercialization of the platform's creative work.”

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Creators come to see that audience emotional support is not the sole path to greater visibility, and that algorithm recognition is necessary for higher income.

“During this process, the creators become aware that an emotional support from the audience is not necessarily the only solution to achieve higher visibility.”

• Also stated in: § 'My content can be rewarded': Cultivating and retaining creator revenue awareness · plain

  “Being recognized by the algorithm is the essential access to the revenue increase.”

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Platform metrics make visibility quantifiable, but creative work is not fully commoditized because value criteria are missing.

“As described by Interviewee #12, while the platform's metrics demonstrate the quantifiable visibility of creative work, the ultimate commoditization is still not complete.”

• Also stated in: § 'My content can be rewarded': Cultivating and retaining creator revenue awareness · plain

  “The lack of criteria for determining the value of creative work makes it difficult for the creators to fully understand their economic value on the platform.”

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Douyin gradually cultivates creators' desire for revenue, masters their creative labor, and then ties them to monetary gains.

“Douyin works with creators to cultivate their thirst for revenue over time, while mastering the creative labor, before finally tying them to monetary gains.”

• Also stated in: § Introduction · plain

  “According to this study, Douyin actually works with creators to cultivate their revenue demands over time, mastering their creative labor along the way before finally tying them to monetary gains.”

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Once creators want lasting income, unpredictable traffic bonuses no longer suffice, and they must turn accumulated traffic into stable earnings.

“After the demand for sustainable revenue is formed, the random and irregular distribution of traffic bonuses become so inadequate.”

• Also stated in: § 'My content can be rewarded': Cultivating and retaining creator revenue awareness · plain

  “Creators urgently need to transform their long-term efforts of accumulating traffic into a steady income.”

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In Star-Chart, Douyin reduces attention-market uncertainty, and strict thresholds plus standardized production reveal a business environment under platform control.

“Throughout the process, the uncertainty of attention market is minimized by the platform, while the strict setting of the system threshold and the quantified production standardization process are both highlight the business environment controlled by the platform.”

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Star-Chart marks a successful exchange stage for creators seeking revenue and Douyin, shielding both from uncertainty.

“Star-Chart can be considered as the stage of successful exchange between revenue-demanding creators and Douyin, where both sides seem to be insulated from the impact of uncertainty.”

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Collaboration connecting platforms, guilds, and creators for profit brings economic, symbolic, and cultural capital.

“The 'collaboration' connecting platforms, guilds, and creators (Ye and Jin, 2021) for the common goal of making profits (Hou and Zhang, 2022), brings economic, symbolic, and cultural capital (Fung et al., 2022).”

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• cites Hou and Zhang, 2022 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source
• cites Fung et al., 2022Not matched

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Platform algorithms distribute content in a black box, leaving Instagram creators uncertain about who will see their work.

“Creators on Instagram are left in the dark about who will see their work because the algorithm distributes content in a 'black box', exacerbating uncertainty (Cotter, 2019).”

• cites Cotter, 2019 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

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As content advertising trade continues, the platform-advertiser-creator transaction chain becomes tighter.

“The content transaction chain formed by platforms, advertisers, and creators is further tightened with the continuous trade of content advertising.”

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Douyin and its algorithms foster revenue needs and exploit uncertainty to push creators toward seeking additional traffic rewards.

“Douyin and its algorithms jointly accomplish the mission of nurturing revenue needs and continue to use the uncertainty to drive the creators to find more possibilities of gaining traffic bonuses.”

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Metrics are one way to measure value on social media, but not the sole resource.

“Although social media metrics are one of the references for measuring value, they are not the only resource (Oestreicher-Singer and Zalmanson, 2013).”

• cites Oestreicher-Singer and Zalmanson, 2013 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

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In step one, Douyin helps creators accumulate visibility through traffic rewards at the initial stage; creators feel positive feedback and are willing to stay.

“(1) The content that could attract the attention of followers.Douyin helps creators to accumulate visibility through traffic rewards at the initial stage.At this stage, the creators feel that their creative work is receiving positive feedback from the platform and are willing to stay on the platform to continue their work.”

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Homogenous individual expression leads to aesthetic fatigue and the constant search for new faces.

“Homogenous individual expression leads to aesthetic fatigue and the constant search for 'new faces'.”

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The intermediary relationship between the platform and creators, such as the MCN channel conditionally opened by Star-Chart, will affect the orientation and realization of content value.

“The intermediary relationship between the platform and creators (e.g., the MCN channel is conditionally opened by the Star-Chart) will affect the orientation and realization of content value.”

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Douyin's business strategies of traffic rewards, traffic pricing, and screening advertisers gradually spread a sense to creators at different levels that they can diminish emotional work to followers and the platform will foster new profitable labor processes.

“This study shows that Douyin's business strategies of traffic rewards, traffic pricing, and screening advertisers gradually spread a sense to creators at different levels.That is, the creators can diminish their emotional work to followers, and the platform will foster new labor processes that can be profitable.”

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The last three requirements are the basis of business cooperation between creators and advertisers, and meeting these specifications is the only way to commercialize.

“The last three requirements are also the basis of business cooperation between creators and advertisers, and meeting these specifications is the only way to commercialize.”

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The standardized assembly line of content production established by the platform proves that Douyin leads and controls the content production process, undermines emotional labor, ensures consistency and stability of content commercialization, and obtains revenue so creative labor becomes real labor.

“The standardized assembly line of content production established by the platform proves that Douyin leads and controls the content production process, undermines the emotional labor of creative work, ensures the consistency and stability of content commercialization, and finally obtains revenue so that the creative labor becomes real 'labor'.”

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Douyin is creating a common logic for the operation of creators, which will shape the industrial form of cultural production on Chinese platforms.

“Thus, Douyin is creating a common logic for the operation of creators, which will shape the industrial form of cultural production on Chinese platforms.”

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Commercialization of cultural production pushes metrics to the forefront as a crucial standard for evaluating visibility and measuring user attention.

“The commercialization of cultural production pushes metrics to the forefront (Baym, 2018), and becomes a crucial standard to evaluate the visibility of the personal creative work or to measure user attention (Baym, 2013).”

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• cites Baym, 2013 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

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Most exchanges on social media arise from mutual needs.

“The majority of social exchanges in social media networks are driven by mutual needs (Huang et al., 2018).”

• cites Huang et al., 2018 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

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This organized mass-produced creative work process, widely conducted across platforms in China, forced creative work to become a reproducible assembly line, with no protection for creators.

“This organized mass-produced creative work process, which is widely conducted across platforms in China, forced the creative work to become a reproducible assembly line, with no protection for creators.”

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In step four, content should meet all advertiser requirements; the requirement template provided by advertisers in Star-Chart re-regulates the content.

“(4) Content that should meet all the requirements of advertisers: the 'requirement template' provided by advertisers in the Star-Chart is the re-regulation of the content.”

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In step three, content requires recognition by Douyin and the algorithm to get traffic reward; creators must constantly meet new tasks or changes in the platform income mechanism, becoming a 'behaved creator' to avoid 'traffic limiting'.

“(3) Content requiring the recognition of Douyin and algorithm to get traffic reward: creators should constantly meet the new tasks or new changes of the platform related income mechanism, becoming 'behaved creator' identified by the platform, in order to avoid 'traffic limiting'.”

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Under platformization, cultural production metrics moved from user information needs toward visibility level.

“Thus, in the context of platformization, the metrics used as a measurement tool for cultural production previously relied on the users' information needs, to the degree of visibility.”

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Content needs wider visibility and a measurable metric trail to qualify for monetization.

“To be eligible for monetization, the content should be evident to more people and have a measurable track through metrics (Hund and McGuigan, 2019).”

• cites Hund and McGuigan, 2019 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

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In step two, content requires platform approval; daily content and Star-Chart advertising content must pass censorship policy and platform requirements.

“(2) Content that requires to be approved by the platform: whether the creator's daily content release or the advertising content in the Star-Chart should pass the censorship policy and the requirements from the platform.”

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Douyin deliberately and gradually cultivates creators' income needs and weakens the contribution of emotional labor to create a standardized creative work production process that can be controlled and replicated.

“It is deduced that Douyin deliberately and gradually cultivates creators' income needs and weakens the contribution of emotional labor to create a standardized creative work production process that can be controlled and replicated.”

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Visibility level is a key foundation for monetizing creative labor, and more visible content means higher metrics.

“The degree of visibility is an important basis for the creators to monetize the creative labor.A highly visible content denotes higher metrics.”

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Creators can only rely on the platform's exchange system and strive to complete specific orders to obtain stable income.

“Creators can only rely on the exchange system of the platform and strive to complete a specific order to obtain a stable income.”

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When platforms use personalized features as seeds and encourage organized centralizing creative workflows, the self-expression of creative work will no longer exist.

“When platforms use these personalized features as seeds and plant them in Petri dishes of content production, encouraging organized centralizing creative workflows, the self-expression of creative work will no longer exist.”

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Emotional labor requires workers to manage their feelings so as to produce desired emotions during interactions.

“The notion of emotional labor describes the need for employees to 'induce or suppress feeling' in order to create a particular emotion in their work when interacting with others, displays that affect others in desired ways (Hochschild, 1983).”

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Emotional labor links creators to followers and turns attention into commercial value.

“The emotional labor serves as a tool to connect followers and converttheir attention into commercial value.”

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To complete content monetization, the process of creative labor diminishes emotional labor through platform mechanism design and guides creators to focus only on metrics rather than social relationships.

“To complete the monetization of content, this process of creative labor diminishes emotional labor through platform mechanism design.It guides creators to focus only on metrics rather than on social relationships.”

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The study summarizes four steps in which Douyin uses traffic distribution strategies and monetization tools to gradually transform creators' labor process, representing a standardized content production assembly line under platform control.

“This study summarizes four steps (Figure 9) where Douyin uses traffic distribution strategies and monetization tools to gradually transform the labor process of the creators, and represents a standardized content production assembly line under the control of the platform.”

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Platform evaluation systems can quantify creative work.

“Similar to the other gig workers, the creative work can be quantified through the platform's evaluation system.”

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Creators must perform emotional labor as part of their job, pursuing passion projects for income.

“As for the creatorson on platforms, Duffy and Wissinger (2017) argued that emotional labors are also a job requirement for creators, who fulfill 'passion projects' to make a living.”

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To maintain stable income, creators should accept that the creative work process is strongly controlled by the platform and comply with a standardized structured content production process.

“In order to maintain a stable income, the creators should accept that the process of creative work is strongly controlled by the platform, and comply with a standardized structured content production process.”

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Creators on Douyin should meet three requirements-approved by censorship rules, visible by algorithm, and satisfied by advertisers-to obtain higher metrics performance and complete the transformation of income demand.

“Creators on Douyin should meet the three requirements of 'approved by censorship rules', 'visible by algorithm', and 'satisfied by advertisers', in order to obtain a higher metrics performance and complete the transformation of income demand.”

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The 'Creators Economy' is a process in which creators seek to transform the visibility of creative work into content monetization opportunities, taking advantage of platformization to establish a new labor industry and new labor relations.

“The phenomenon of 'Creators Economy' is a process in which the creators seek to transform the visibility of creative work into content monetization opportunities, which is taking advantage of platformization to establish a new labor industry (Scolere et al., 2018), as well as new labor relations.”

• cites Scolere et al., 2018 sourceNot checked — no full text of the source

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The platform collaborates with creators to turn creative authenticity into commerciality and to transform the original labor process in a way that weakens emotional work.

“The platform collaborates with the creators to transform the creative work authenticity into commerciality, and to transform the original labor process of the creators in a way that weakens the emotional work.”

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The platform sets the stage for self-branding of everyone, even though the financial and reputational rewards of such activity are highly uneven.

“The platform sets the stage for the self-branding of everyone, even if the financial and reputational rewards of such activity are highly uneven (Meisner and Ledbetter, 2020).”

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Platforms are both rewarders and punishers.

“In other words, the platforms are both rewarders and punishers.”