Identity Farming: Mining Struggle for Monetization

We’re living in a time where trauma sells. If you’ve survived hardship, your story has become currency — even if you're not the one profiting from it.

🧠 AI Processing Reality...

The digital world has created a dangerous economy: **identity farming**. It’s the act of harvesting someone else’s pain, background, culture, or struggle... and selling it as if you earned it.

💰 Monetizing the Pain of Others

Some influencers don’t want to heal — they want to trend. They speak of oppression they never endured, loss they never felt, or communities they never contributed to. And in doing so, they convert borrowed narratives into revenue streams.

🧬 The Algorithm Doesn’t Care If It’s Real

If the story hits the emotional note — the algorithm amplifies it. No one checks the receipts. No one asks who lived it. We’ve entered an age where **sympathy is strategy** and **pain is profitable.**

This isn’t awareness. It’s performance. And those who lived the stories get left with the scars, not the sponsorships.