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YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M

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Post by tcmb »

jetrink wrote: post #38
TravHatesMe wrote: post #16

What I find interesting is that many of these youtubers have created personas to appeal to their audience, like true entertainers. However loyal viewers are fooled into this false sense of reality, where they are friends with content creator and this is not a persona at all, he's my friend. Over time, the content creator and the audience share so many moments together, it becomes an emotional bond and a substitute fo…

This was described in 1956 by Horton and Whol in the paper Mass Communication and Para-social Interaction. > One of the striking characteristics of the new mass media - radio, television, and the movies - is that they give the illusion of face-to-face relationship with the performer. [...] The most remote and illustrious men are met as if they were in the circle of one's peers; the same is true of a character in a st…

'Persona' is the mask you put on, originally from the masks worn in ancient graeco-roman theater: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/persona#Etymology

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Post by nthitz »

zanek wrote: post #29

My 7 year old son watches Dude Perfect on YouTube, which I had never heard of. Apparently its all the rage, in elementary schools and he heard about it via other kids. I watched a few to make sure they were ok, but they mostly came off as older guys doing elaborate stunts that kids would do on a much smaller scale (like throwing balls off tall buildings, fat suits on cars, etc ) I'm not shocked they are making $20M o…

Their stunts are impressive. Always was surprised by their religious tones though http://dudeperfect.com/about/

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Post by crooked-v »

Rjevski wrote: post #70
diminish wrote: post #64

My 6 y.o. lives in a youtube universe. Every content he creates, he makes a video and publishes on youtube. Making slimes, building stamps, building paper train wagons, visiting places, and of course unpacking toys and stuff. He always concludes video or other stories like `pls press the Like button, and subscribe to my channel in order not to miss a thing`. When I talk too much he says 'papa skip ad', with a tap ges…

You should explain to him that whatever you publish on the Internet is forever and whether he'd like someone in his adult life to be able to find that content.

Do you really think a 6-year-old who thinks it's the best thing in the world is going to say 'no' to that? If anything that's encouragement.

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Post by wbillingsley »

lazyjones wrote: post #69
zanek wrote: post #29

My 7 year old son watches Dude Perfect on YouTube, which I had never heard of. Apparently its all the rage, in elementary schools and he heard about it via other kids. I watched a few to make sure they were ok, but they mostly came off as older guys doing elaborate stunts that kids would do on a much smaller scale (like throwing balls off tall buildings, fat suits on cars, etc ) I'm not shocked they are making $20M o…

> I'm not shocked they are making $20M or so. I'm slightly shocked that the money comes from advertisers interested in influencing 6-7 year old kids.

Then again, thinking about the kids' tv shows that only really existed to sell the toys (eg, Transformers) it's not that surprising.

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Post by xapata »

Rjevski wrote: post #70
diminish wrote: post #64

My 6 y.o. lives in a youtube universe. Every content he creates, he makes a video and publishes on youtube. Making slimes, building stamps, building paper train wagons, visiting places, and of course unpacking toys and stuff. He always concludes video or other stories like `pls press the Like button, and subscribe to my channel in order not to miss a thing`. When I talk too much he says 'papa skip ad', with a tap ges…

You should explain to him that whatever you publish on the Internet is forever and whether he'd like someone in his adult life to be able to find that content.

I expect that future generations will have a better sense of how personality changes over time, and thus less embarrassment from old videos.

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Post by manmal »

TravHatesMe wrote: post #16

What I find interesting is that many of these youtubers have created personas to appeal to their audience, like true entertainers. However loyal viewers are fooled into this false sense of reality, where they are friends with content creator and this is not a persona at all, he's my friend. Over time, the content creator and the audience share so many moments together, it becomes an emotional bond and a substitute fo…

Pewdiepie definitely diverges strongly from Felix‘ IRL persona. Pewdiepie is an outgoing personality with misogynistic tendencies, playing with racial slurs every now and then, appealing to his Reddit/4chanish/incel followers (whom he now calls army of 9 year olds).

IRL he seems to be awkward around other people, soft (nice), and obviously a bit depressed.

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Post by ryen »

jetrink wrote: post #38
TravHatesMe wrote: post #16

What I find interesting is that many of these youtubers have created personas to appeal to their audience, like true entertainers. However loyal viewers are fooled into this false sense of reality, where they are friends with content creator and this is not a persona at all, he's my friend. Over time, the content creator and the audience share so many moments together, it becomes an emotional bond and a substitute fo…

This was described in 1956 by Horton and Whol in the paper Mass Communication and Para-social Interaction. > One of the striking characteristics of the new mass media - radio, television, and the movies - is that they give the illusion of face-to-face relationship with the performer. [...] The most remote and illustrious men are met as if they were in the circle of one's peers; the same is true of a character in a st…

>'personalities' whose existence is a function of the media themselves.

These could be today's satirists

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