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YouTube stars heading for burnout

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Re: YouTube stars heading for burnout

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Post by anonymous5133 »

wgerard wrote: post #15
anonymous5133 wrote: post #7

If they feel burnout then they should just stop making videos for awhile or move on to doing something else.

> stop making videos for awhile It has a huge detrimental effect. Each day you take a break can set you back by several. From the article: >> “I left for less than 48 hours and lost 40,000 subscribers on Twitch. I’ll be back today… grinding again.” > move on to doing something else There's not a clear career path to anything else. Many of them have spent their formative adult years streaming, and transitioning to ano…

Umm yeah, I still think they should move on. If you hate doing something then why continue doing it? Best to shift into an occupation you enjoy. I don't really think youtube or twitch were even meant to be full-time occupations to begin with.

Re: YouTube stars heading for burnout

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Post by jarjoura »

How is this different than any other prestigious high performance job? Okay great, you busted your ass and you made it to the top, and now you have to bust your ass to stay there. I also don’t really think it’s fair to attach YouTube to the title. This article can be applied to all social media celebrities in all their various platforms.

Re: YouTube stars heading for burnout

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Post by stephengillie »

> Like all YouTubers, Morton also feels the financial pressure of the system, which typically pays between £1.50 and £3 for every 1,000 views.

Based on this, creators have to be close to the 1 million views per month mark to be making over $24,000 per year.

It's no secret that YouTube is wildly unprofitable, from every angle. In a way, it's a transfer of wealth from AdWords, so our society is paying for YouTube through ads; just mostly not through the ads on YouTube.

Re: YouTube stars heading for burnout

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Post by ce4 »

wybiral wrote: post #8

In my experience the frustrating part about YouTube is when the crowd wants content that you're not interested in making. For instance, I've made a few videos about building clusters from Raspberry Pi's, which I did just for kicks and to have something to play around with. They get more attention than my (imo more interesting) videos about programming or various other electronics topics, to the point that it dwarfs m…

Randall's mockery from 2006 still applies:

https://xkcd.com/202/

Also this Theoatmeal comic sums it up as well (the Mona Lisa comparison must be about Youtube's comments imho):

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/making_things

Re: YouTube stars heading for burnout

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #18
pmoriarty wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I also learned very quickly that the YouTube comments section is chaotic and is not a recommended place for someone looking for thoughtful critique on their material." YouTube's comments are some of the absolute worst I've seen on the web. It's interesting that YouTube has made no effective efforts to improve their quality. You'd think the site as a whole could benefit tremendously from quality comments, but apparen…

> It's interesting that YouTube has made no effective efforts to improve their quality. // You imply it, but it's worth noting that they have made efforts but failed/stopped. Google can't/won't fix it. I suspect as someone else mentioned they realised that fixing comment quality reduces "engagement"; like tabloid news.

> fixing comment quality reduces "engagement"

I’ll admit to occasionally scrolling through the comments looking for the batshit crazy ones, if only because they tend to be funny and interesting in the totally unexpected way they managed to get offended about something.

Re: YouTube stars heading for burnout

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

wgerard wrote: post #15
anonymous5133 wrote: post #7

If they feel burnout then they should just stop making videos for awhile or move on to doing something else.

> stop making videos for awhile It has a huge detrimental effect. Each day you take a break can set you back by several. From the article: >> “I left for less than 48 hours and lost 40,000 subscribers on Twitch. I’ll be back today… grinding again.” > move on to doing something else There's not a clear career path to anything else. Many of them have spent their formative adult years streaming, and transitioning to ano…

> There's not a clear career path to anything else

If you’re making $6 million / year, you have the resources with which to take time off and reconsider your choices.

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Post by judNell » 

  Ninja, makes an estimated $500,000 (£384,000) every 
  month via live broadcasts of him playing the video 
  game Fortnite on Twitch, a service for livestreaming 
  video games that is owned by Amazon. Most of Blevins’ 
  revenue comes from Twitch subscribers or viewers who 
  provide one-off donations (often in the hope that he 
  will thank them by name “on air”).
There is something fantastically wrong about the way internet economies operate. In the same way so many other sub-economies panhandle, in exchange for absolutely nothing.

Re: YouTube stars heading for burnout

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Post by mjfl »

wybiral wrote: post #8

In my experience the frustrating part about YouTube is when the crowd wants content that you're not interested in making. For instance, I've made a few videos about building clusters from Raspberry Pi's, which I did just for kicks and to have something to play around with. They get more attention than my (imo more interesting) videos about programming or various other electronics topics, to the point that it dwarfs m…

I like writing about math and physics, but the views on my Ethereum articles are 500x higher, I measured. But that's how the world works. If you want money or attention, you have to serve people.
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