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exposure bucks en · NOUN
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(plural, plural-only) Exposure (publicity or visibility) as a form of payment for creative work, typically when no actual money is provided.
I hate to break it to people, but exposure bucks aren’t a real currency. You can’t cash an exposure bucks cheque. You can’t send them through PayPal. And you can’t balance a budget with exposure bucks.
2020, Nailah, “5 reasons why I won’t work for exposure”, in The Content Witches, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2024: