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  • Re: George Santos is earning six figures from Cameo videos

    From bfh@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Wed Dec 6 19:34:45 2023
    Technobarbarian wrote:

    "The former congressman was expelled last Friday for a variety of
    sins and alleged crimes, including overcharging the credit card of
    a colleague’s mother. He has, in the intervening four days,
    stumbled across a path to making a living that dwarfs the $174,000
    salary he earned as a member of Congress.

    In fact, Santos said — and screenshots and the CEO of Cameo
    confirmed — that he has lined up more than that sum in his first
    48 hours on the platform. People pay between $200 and $300 to
    Santos for various flavors of communication. The videos can take
    less than a minute to film, and the platform has brought millions
    of dollars to the occasional campy, game, minor celebrity like the
    late comedian Gilbert Gottfried.

    Santos “is going to be an absolute whale,” Cameo’s founder and CEO, Steven Galanis, told Semafor. His launch, Galanis said, is
    among the platform’s best ever: “Sarah Jessica Parker, Bon Jovi — he’s putting numbers up like that,” he said.

    Santos does seem to be putting his heart into the project."

    "He does seem to have finally found, as The New York Times noted, a
    way to make an “honest buck.” As Galanis, the Cameo CEO, told
    me, “This platform was built for him and he was built for
    it.”"

    https://www.semafor.com/article/12/06/2023/george-santos-is-earning-six-figures-from-cameo-videos

    The whole thing is a fun story.

    You can't keep a bad man......ummmm.......person down.

    --
    bill
    Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

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  • From Mike Van Pelt@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Dec 9 03:55:12 2023
    In article <Gq8cN.222326$[email protected]>, bfh <[email protected]> wrote: >Technobarbarian wrote:

    "The former congressman was expelled last Friday for a variety of
    sins and alleged crimes, including overcharging the credit card of
    a colleague’s mother. He has, in the intervening four days,
    stumbled across a path to making a living that dwarfs the $174,000
    salary he earned as a member of Congress.

    In fact, Santos said — and screenshots and the CEO of Cameo
    confirmed — that he has lined up more than that sum in his first
    48 hours on the platform.

    Fetterman bought a clip of Santos giving amusing "advice" to
    Congressman Robert "Gold Bars" Menendez. That was the first
    I've heard of Cameo.

    As someone has said, I'm not particularly concerned about
    millionaires and billionaires in Congress. I'm *dang*
    concerned about people who *become* millionaires and
    billionaires while "serving" in Congress.


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