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

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Post by ittgsv »

porjo wrote: post #135

I was interested to see that the top 10 earners are all male.[1] I wonder if this is merely a reflection of greater male patronage of Youtube generally but the topics that these top earners are focusing on are not all stereotypically male interests. The 7 year old kid reviews toys which seems quite gender neutral and then there's the makeup artist which, presumably, would be of more interest to a female audience. Wha…

>What is stopping women and girls from dominating Youtube?

Twitch allows women to show their breasts, etc. Instagram too, it's practically a sexual social network. Most top posts you will see are tits, butts, tits, and then more butts. They don't allow that on YouTube. Once you take that out of the equation, you will see that women aren't funny and simply have nothing of interest to say.

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Post by alan_wade »

andai wrote: post #123
alan_wade wrote: post #119

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Computers, internet, youtube, games - these things are a part of a real world. I mean, they aren't a hallucination, they don't exist on a separate plane of reality. Experiences are real, joy they bring is real, and for many people, it's far better than what the "real" world around them has to offer. If people are tempted to escape into a virtual world, it might be because the real world around them sucks.

Technology is designed as a hyperstimulus. The real world (suffering aside) sucks the same way fruit sucks compared with candy.

I don't mind it when instead of candy you get fruit.

When instead of candy you get kicked in the nuts by a horse, that's when you need some of that youtube to get your mind off of things.

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Post by suddenstutter »

buboard wrote: post #132

There really needs to be some regulation or at least self-regulation for this kind of stuff. This child should remain the exception (this is technically child labor), and advertising to kids on youtube should catch up with TV standards. And i don't think this kind of publicity is doing any good to other children. Perhaps a startup that helps parents deal with this kind of stuff easier?

oh my god. Please don't bring the government into this.

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Post by belorn »

anonymous5133 wrote: post #108
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…

My GF is an elementary school teacher and she says the amount of kids who are developing anti-social behaviors is increasing pretty rapidly. Kids these days have computers and are basically simply "escaping" to the internet to live in a fantasy world that is disconnected from reality. Some even display active addictions to computer games, like minecraft, while others say they only have friends online in the games or…

I have never really heard people describe elementary school as the most inclusive environment where if just children took their time to talk to their peers then everyone would get along and bullying would be something of the past.

If children has a higher need to escape reality than in the past then maybe we should ask why that is rather than in vain hope try to make the problem go away by removing the escape method. Like you I find it troublesome that parents use computers to babysit, but I would say the same thing about any form of babysitting mechanism that result in the child not get any social support.

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Post by bantunes »

belorn wrote: post #164
anonymous5133 wrote: post #108

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My GF is an elementary school teacher and she says the amount of kids who are developing anti-social behaviors is increasing pretty rapidly. Kids these days have computers and are basically simply "escaping" to the internet to live in a fantasy world that is disconnected from reality. Some even display active addictions to computer games, like minecraft, while others say they only have friends online in the games or…

I have never really heard people describe elementary school as the most inclusive environment where if just children took their time to talk to their peers then everyone would get along and bullying would be something of the past. If children has a higher need to escape reality than in the past then maybe we should ask why that is rather than in vain hope try to make the problem go away by removing the escape method.…

Maybe Minecraft and others succeed because they're just easier than actual real-life connections? If so, Minecraft might be a problem, a shortcut too many kids are taking.

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Post by pjc50 »

WalterBright wrote: post #147
dagw wrote: post #134

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Government funded art doesn't make it pure art Sure, but it's no less pure than art funded by a private benefactor or patron.

What percentage of the CDs you own were government funded? (Or MP3's on your player.)

You'd be surprised. There's a reason there's a band called UB40. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/dole-queue-blues-that-gav...

(not "government funded" in the grant sense, but the old UK unemployment benefit worked a lot more like a basic income)

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Post by WalterBright »

dagw wrote: post #155
WalterBright wrote: post #147

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What percentage of the CDs you own were government funded? (Or MP3's on your player.)

I haven't got the slightest clue, nor do I care. And more importantly what do you mean by funded? If the local council offer free or subsidized rehearsal space to local up and coming bands, is the album they created there "government funded"?

I'd say no. But some people would say that the road the band used to drive around was government funded, therefore their music is. I don't agree with them.

I'd say government funding is when the government pays money to a specific artist to produce art. Like when a record company decides to pay a band to produce an album, or a publisher decides to give an advance to an author to write a book.

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Post by WalterBright »

dagw wrote: post #159
WalterBright wrote: post #144

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I know the local concert hall gets some funding from the government for performances. I don't think it funds composers.

I don't think it funds composers. What country are you in? Definitely if you're in the US or Europe there are plenty of places you can apply for government funding if you're a composer. Also if the government is funding the concert hall and that funding lets the concert hall put on work by and pay a composer, at what point does it stop being government funding?

Just out of curiosity, can you name a CD produced in the US by a composer paid by the government to compose?

> at what point does it stop being government funding?

It's a good question, and I replied to that in another comment.

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Post by WalterBright »

pjc50 wrote: post #166
WalterBright wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What percentage of the CDs you own were government funded? (Or MP3's on your player.)

You'd be surprised. There's a reason there's a band called UB40. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/dole-queue-blues-that-gav... (not "government funded" in the grant sense, but the old UK unemployment benefit worked a lot more like a basic income)

I wouldn't call that government funding of art. They were not given money in exchange for producing art. They were just given money.

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Post by hycaria »

wbillingsley wrote: post #74
lazyjones wrote: post #69

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> 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.

But do they even play with toys with all the time spent on youtube ?
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