These YouTube families are great. I hope they keep perspective though and don't go all Disney child actor. I mean maybe they can have hollywood careers etc but kids need to be kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FamilyOFive Except when the youtube families use child abuse to generate controversy and views...
And they're still making shitty videos with the kids that weren't taken away. I think they were pulled off YouTube again and had to start their own site for their content.
I'm not sure if you're being serious, but that video was honestly minimal amount of effort when it came to effects, sets and production. There are channels on Youtube with a fraction of the following that produce content orders of magnitude more professional than that. This kind of video can be made by some amateur producer in their bedroom. Considering they make 22M, you'd really think they'd spend money on at least…
Considering they make 22M, you'd really think they'd spend money on at least getting a single professional video editor I've heard it claimed that many youtubers get locked into their day 1 aesthetic and intentionally avoid changing their winning formula. If your videos shot in your bedroom with a single fixed camera on a tripod, no staff and basic editing are making you $15 million a year, why fix what isn't broken?
The #1 counter-example I can give is MKBHD. Look at the evolution of his videos. As he has gotten more popular, he has continuously worked on improving his equipment and style. He know shoots and edits in 8K, with RED cameras, professional intro, and so on.
You can still keep your personality, your style and your quirks, but upgrade things such as video quality, editing, and overall production quality.
A small point: did anybody notice how this reward mechanism prize the "idiocy" far more than the "knowledge"? I mean most followed YT channels, most upvotes on FB etc are about "brainless things", "brainless contents" vs valuable technical or cultural contents. An YT channel about "just for laugh" or "sport" or "how to decorate nails" have FAR more subscribers and viewers than a tech, historic, physics, ... DIY chann…
Same thing with TV, Music, Film...If you want mass appeal you need to hit the lowest common denominator. It doesn't bother me because I find that if you just let go of your pretensions there are some genuinely good channels that could be describe as "Idiotic".
Heck Pewdiepie is actually a pretty interesting channel from time to time. You got to hand it to the guy for putting in the work to not only reach the top, but to stay on the top but hasn't completely sold out to advertisers to make bland family friendly content.
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…
> My GF is an elementary school teacher and she says Respectfully, I've spent a _great deal of time_ with elementary school teachers, and many appear very very willing to diagnose random children, adults, and coworkers as being "a bit autistic", and so on. In addition, and assuming wildly here, how old is she? If you're the HN average of about 30, and she's about your age, she doesn't really have a cross-generational…
I've made this same argument to my teacher friends who are worried about the youth. But consider this: while they may not have direct experience with youth across generations, we are unlikely to have as much experience with the youth of any generation as they do.
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.
His real persona comes through pretty frequently though, which is why people like him, imo. When he does longer gaming videos, or more serious videos, you can see what he is really like to some degree. Most of his viewers should be very aware that the PewDiePie persona isn't who he actually is in real life, which is a departure from other YouTubers who always have their "TV personality" on while they are recording. Even in his less serious videos, every once in a while he will break from his PewDiePie persona and have a bit of more serious commentary, which makes him seem very genuine, while still being entertaining. The viewers know he is having fun and joking around in his videos, rather than trying to act like he is something he's not.
As a parent, are you worried about any of this? Genuinely asking as the parent of a much younger child who will have to deal with this in the future. I don’t know why but the concept of my child being an active yt contributor at that age freaks me out.
I only freak out, when I read horrible comments - which is an unfortunate part of the youtube experience.
It doesn't have to be a part of the experience, you can disable the comments on their videos. Although other videos you watch on YouTube would still have comments, obviously, unless you use an adblocker or something to get rid of them.
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…
The majority of viewers are male, so I think it makes sense that the highest earners are also male - I would expect people, especially younger people, to gravitate towards YouTubers of the same gender. Also there are several gaming channels in the list of top YouTubers, which is also a category dominated by males.
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 don't think that behavior should be called anti-social. Why do you put their online friends in quotes? When I grew up, I only had one real friend, and everyone else I played with only because they lived on the same street. I did not particularly like the games most of the time, but there was no choice.
In contrast, these kids have friends, who actually share some common interest. They choose those friends. And also, probably, more of them. If anything, I'd call that hyper-social.
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…
> I was interested to see that the top 10 earners are all male. There is always one.
> There is always one.
No, not even one ;)
Seriously though, it seems that every time I switch on to any news or current affairs show, they're talking about the gender wage gap. So clearly a lot of people are interested in this.
Not surprising, but I find the practice disturbing. I imagine it's hard for busy parents to police the commercials the children sees, and much of the marketing to children likely occurs in this unwanted but hard to avoid space. The end result is corporations trying to train children that the best way to live and enjoy one's self is if they buy a steady stream plastic goods made overseas, eventually to be discarded in…
> I imagine it's hard for busy parents to police the commercials the children sees I hear things like this a lot. It's not hard, it just takes time. Is it hard to make that time? If it is too hard to make time to do something with your kids that you yourself think is important, you have to reconsider your priorities. If you didn't plan appropriately, and decided to have kids before realizing the effort required, then…
My issue with this (I don’t have kids) is that the people with the least time are the poor. They’re chronically busy, and so taking the time to keep your kids off of this stuff is a privilege not everyone can enjoy.