The clipping economy: How short-form video 'clippers' are overrunning the internet

When he wasn't eking out a living with part-time work, 25-year-old Emrah Bayraktar would take out his phone and edit long interviews of influencers into snippets and post them. "And then one random night, I saw a notification saying that I earned $12," said Bayraktar. "Then two weeks later, I made two-and-a-half thousand dollars, and I thought, 'Maybe I could just quit my jobs and go all-in on this.'" Emrah Bayraktar hide caption toggle caption Emrah Bayraktar For years, Emrah Bayraktar did …