Print zine culture saw early web publishers as sellouts chasing commercial careers.

Evidence

Michelle Comstock, in her study of grrrl zines, sniffed that “unlike their print zine colleagues, [e-zine editors] seem more committed to making a name in the commercial end of technology as professional writers, Web designers, or computer technicians.” — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 89

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the authenticity-vs-commercialism boundary recurs across media transitions — could be an essay on how each new platform is accused of ‘selling out’ by the prior one.
• XREF: Echoes the self-branding ‘selling out’ tension that runs through this book’s later chapters on social media influencers. — connects to: Early web publishers saw zines as resistance to corporate homogenization; Early internet programmers and even CEOs resisted advertising on principle as intrusive — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 728; Print zinesters condemned early webzine creators as sellouts chasing commercial success. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 89

Broader Connections

• Early web publishers saw zines as resistance to corporate homogenization #complicates (0.90)
• Early internet programmers and even CEOs resisted advertising on principle as intrusive #corroborates (0.72) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 728