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wearhere | 5 years ago

What’s MCN?

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est|5 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_network

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2737059?hl=en

It's an established term to describe org affiliated with youtube/twitch/tiktok/instagram etc.

gorkish|5 years ago

It's an acronym which fell too deep into its niche; a check word used to advertise one's legitimacy as a person on the other side of the curtain.

snovv_crash|5 years ago

Mainland China? I'm confused too...

jiggunjer|5 years ago

HN seems guilty of frequently using obscure acronyms. Is this an SV culture thing? Is it that hard to type things out or use a text-expanding app?

thiagocsf|5 years ago

What’s SV? (seriously)

dredmorbius|5 years ago

People deeply immersed in some technical niche or subculture tend to use acronymms and other jargon unconsciously. That said, unexplained acronyms (I also wondered and found no likely definition in a DDG search) are an exceeding poor communication practice.

1_player|5 years ago

As far as I know it's an American cultural thing to use an acronym whenever possible.