what's new is doing it as an independent creator for an audience of 20 or maybe 200, rather than 2,000,000.

I guess you never lived in a place with public access cable. This has been going on for 50 years. It's not new at all.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Whenever I stopped on the public access channel, it was reruns of city council meetings and stuff. I've heard about all sorts of wild and wooly productions by teenagers and weirdos, but never saw any myself.