• Not_mikey@slrpnk.net
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    6 months ago

    Hosting/streaming videos is not free.

    Neither is creating content. Argue all you want on how Google is evil and doesn’t deserve the money, 50% of the revenue is still going to creators and ad-blockers do cut into there paychecks.

    Also doesn’t make sense longing for the days of ad-free YouTube. Besides the fact it was unsustainable and would’ve gone the way of vine after a few years, it was just worse. It was full of 2 minute compilations of guys getting hit in the balls at 240p, not the 1080p 10 minute video essays with research that people have become accustomed to. That kind of quality costs money.

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      6 months ago

      Neither is creating content. Argue all you want on how Google is evil and doesn’t deserve the money, 50% of the revenue is still going to creators and ad-blockers do cut into there paychecks.

      Yes, and a lot of creators I follow said they wouldn’t be able to do the stuff they do if it wasn’t for Patreon, because Youtube pays shit.

      If a creator whose main audience is on your platform earns more from an external donation site than from what you’re paying them, there’s something deeply wrong with your system and no one should support it.