Chapter 9. The Marketplace Opens Up On The Most Important Change Happening Around Us
As I said before, coming out was hard. During hard times, it is important to have hope about something, about anything, to keep you going. Luckily for me, the mid-to-late 2000s was full of hope in a way. Especially for aspiring cultural creators of all kinds, from musicians to comedians, from filmmakers to authors.
The mid-2000s was really the dawn of social media as we know it. Facebook and Twitter were launched and popularized in that period. MySpace, which dominated the landscape for a few years (yes, it used to be even more popular than Facebook), had a strong focus on independent musicians, and really kickstarted the trend of independent musicians promoting and selling their music online. To understand how revolutionary this was, you need to 84
