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1: is it? Why would the established platforms not get that boost instead? I don't find this very self explanatory, do explain :)

>>lucb1e+(OP)
Just guessing, but OF's social interaction (or "interaction", if you will) with creators was more appealing whilst we were all starved for human connection.

>>eszed+6m
There's various places where you can talk directly with the person offering their services though, that's not something OF newly introduced to the internet -- if that's what you meant by their "social interaction" since I haven't used OF so could be missing a detail

>>lucb1e+Rv
Yeah, it sounds like nothing they did was really new (though maybe packaged and marketed in fresh ways), but did manage to line up with the zeitgeist - perhaps including the Pandemic - in ways other companies didn't.

It's all in the timing, sometimes.