Current TV 

A cable network that’s business model is based on ripping off young, naïve filmmakers who are willing to work for very little, while delivering high quality, innovative content. This model keeps Current’s production costs absurdly low, while the rates they charge for advertising are absurdly high. And while they do not share their multi-million dollar ad revenue with the young filmmakers who make it possible to charge those rates, they do give them the chance to “share their voice” while “democratizing television.”

Film School Graduate 1: “Yo man, Current TV paid me 500 dollars for exclusive rights to that short documentary I spent five months producing.”

Film School Graduate 2: “Wow, your voice is really gonna be heard when they air it in random rotation at some unknown point in the future!"

Current TV by Truth Inconvenient August 30, 2007

current tv 

It's like YouTube, but nobody cares.

Person 1: Hey man, did you see that Pod on Current TV?

Person 2: Current? Never heard of it

current tv by Ted412 April 5, 2008

currentivism

An Internet art movement in which artists, connected together online via the Internet, create art for each other and consume the art of each other simultaneously and in real time.

Currentivism was born on Ello. It was never meant to die there.

currentivism by ectypia_of_ello May 28, 2016