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Originally Posted by Giggleton
It is the only definition for indie and mainstream content that makes any sense and it applies to all content and perhaps all thought.
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You act as if "indie" is an antonym for "mainstream". It's not. Indie describes an artist's ties to some sort of corporate content distributor. Mainstream describes an artist's popularity among the general population. An artist can be a mainstream independent success just as it can be a mainstream signed failure. I think the confusion is that all non-mainstream is indie (because only artists who are expected to be commercial successes get signed), but that doesn't mean that all mainstream is signed.