The Digital Illusion: My 10-Year Journey Through a Broken System

Message to young generations. 

For over a decade, I've dedicated my life to the digital world. As a music producer, content creator, and programmer, I was drawn in by the promise of freedom—the idea that with talent and hard work, you could build a career and achieve true independence. I had projects like Zen Studio 888 and Binary Dissint, pouring my soul into the work, watching them grow. But what I've learned from 10 years of experience is that this promise is nothing but a carefully constructed illusion.

The modern tech industry, dominated by a handful of giants, has become an elaborate system designed to extract value, not to create opportunity. This is not a world of free enterprise; it's a digital monopoly, and as an independent contractor or creator, you are not a partner—you are free labor.

The Psychology of Digital Servitude

It's all a psychological game. They use AI and sophisticated bots to create the illusion of engagement and opportunity, while in reality, they're building a system of digital servitude. We are asked to pay for services, but what we're really doing is training their AI models for free. The work we do, the content we create, the data we generate—it's all used to enrich these corporations, who then pay us a pittance, if anything at all.

This isn't a conspiracy theory; it's a business model. Big companies like Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, and X (the worst of them all) share user data and use algorithms to control and manipulate the flow of information. They create a false narrative of freedom and success through fake affiliated actors and bots, but the reality is that the deck is stacked against anyone who dares to challenge the status quo.

The Walls They Build

If you're an independent creator, you'll know the feeling. You spend years working toward a goal, like 1000 subscribers, only to realize you've been working for free for a corporation. And just when you start to gain traction, when your music or videos start to grow organically, they pull the rug out from under you. They'll ban or "shadow ban" your content, using bots to suppress your reach. You'll get a vague, illogical reason—a new tax, an AI policy change, a political event—anything to justify stealing your work and your potential income.

Then there are the payment systems, a labyrinth of bureaucracy designed to make life impossible for a digital nomad. They'll demand an endless stream of documents, restrict payments based on your passport, and then, on top of everything, they'll take a massive cut. Between platform commissions, taxes, payment service fees, and unfavorable foreign exchange rates, you can easily lose 60% or more of your meager earnings.

This isn't just bad business; it's illogical and fundamentally anti-human. It stifles creativity, crushes innovation, and consolidates power in the hands of a few. The internet was supposed to be a tool for empowerment, but in its current state, it's a nightmare of control and exploitation.

The Social Rating System

What I've come to realize is that this system works like a digital social rating. If you speak the truth, if you expose these systems, or criticize their affiliated bloggers, your digital life becomes a series of unexplained frustrations. Your phone might become buggy, you might get bad service, or your reach will be cut—not because of a random error, but because your digital social rating has been flagged.

The situation is getting worse, not better. The tech giants are a digital mafia, and they have created a world where independent creators are their pawns. This is my log book, my record of what's happening. The illusion of making money online is just that: an illusion.