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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by lefstathiou »

philippejara wrote: post #332
ghaff wrote: post #330

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One data point from a successful YouTuber is interesting but I'm not sure about the extremely valuable part. If anything, it probably leads to a lot of people thinking they can make >$100K/year making YouTube videos and they almost certainly won't.

I'd say its the opposite, you're talking about a channel that gets 10M views average per video while being kid friendly and targeting probably the audience with the most spending power(middle aged males in the US), you'd think they'd make far more than 100k/year.

The data makes sense to me but not the interpretation. My 2.5yo son loves watching Lego assembly videos on Youtube during his TV time, which is of course tied to my account, which therefore means I contribute to his middle aged male statistic. Perhaps I am having a tough time empathizing but I find it hard to believe droves of men my age are watching Lego assembly videos in the background.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by joshmlewis »

lefstathiou wrote: post #351
philippejara wrote: post #332

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I'd say its the opposite, you're talking about a channel that gets 10M views average per video while being kid friendly and targeting probably the audience with the most spending power(middle aged males in the US), you'd think they'd make far more than 100k/year.

The data makes sense to me but not the interpretation. My 2.5yo son loves watching Lego assembly videos on Youtube during his TV time, which is of course tied to my account, which therefore means I contribute to his middle aged male statistic. Perhaps I am having a tough time empathizing but I find it hard to believe droves of men my age are watching Lego assembly videos in the background.

I was thinking exactly this. How many of that demographic are actually playing it for kids using their account? But I also know it is a very popular hobby for some people. My brother started a lego city group on Facebook and it exploded totally organically to tens of thousands of members. He was shocked!

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by minton »

richrichardsson wrote: post #264
ljf wrote: post #261

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I'm a Brit, I would no think of Joe as a liberal, and I only read this thread as I was so shocked to hear he might be a left leaning commentator. Obviously reading this, he is not.

I'm also a Brit, and to be honest, the term "liberal" in a political context has lost all meaning for me since everyone seems to have their own definition of what it actually entails.

This seems to be the case for a lot of words these days.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by naasking »

ghaff wrote: post #349
naasking wrote: post #328

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Isn't that basically any job? I'd you're a software engineer and your company decides to outsource or otherwise contract out development work...

Then you can presumably go to another company. There isn't another YouTube. More generally, unlikely as it is to hit even this comfortable but modest in the grand scheme of things success, it almost certainly won't last indefinitely. Whether because YouTube changes something or because audience tastes change.

Rumble, Patreon, Twitch, Facebook, and more exist. I agree it won't last indefinitely, which is why investment advice is always to diversify.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by hahamrfunnyguy »

I have a small channel (7,500 subs) that was quite active for a couple years. I got a bit sick of creating content so now I only publish a few videos a year.

It is interesting to see the difference in RPM for different kinds of content. My channel RPM is $3.52, highest video is $7.01. I get around 8,000 views per month for all my videos.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by lotsofpulp »

coldtea wrote: post #235
lotsofpulp wrote: post #91

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Digital sharecropping? Any country or group of people is welcome to spin up their own data centers and content moderations teams to make their own YouTube.

And any sharecropper was welcome to buy their own land, spin up their own castle, fund their own mercenary army, and make their own feudal kingdom! Sharecroppers weren't slaves either. But that's a pretty low bar (and "build your own YouTube" a pretty high bar).

I disagree that build your own YouTube is a “high” bar, outside of money.

There are and were multitudes of video hosting and serving websites. It is just ridiculously expensive.

Castles, mercenary armies, and conquering land are comparable much, much more difficult.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by ghaff »

naasking wrote: post #354
ghaff wrote: post #349

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Then you can presumably go to another company. There isn't another YouTube. More generally, unlikely as it is to hit even this comfortable but modest in the grand scheme of things success, it almost certainly won't last indefinitely. Whether because YouTube changes something or because audience tastes change.

Rumble, Patreon, Twitch, Facebook, and more exist. I agree it won't last indefinitely, which is why investment advice is always to diversify.

None of those are really substitutes for YouTube. But I agree that if someone has stumbled into a somewhat sustainable business that they decide they want to do full-time as long as they can, they should diversify both their content and their channels.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by lotsofpulp »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #167
lotsofpulp wrote: post #91

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Digital sharecropping? Any country or group of people is welcome to spin up their own data centers and content moderations teams to make their own YouTube.

Isn't buying your own farm easier then spinning up your own data center? I really don't understand the point you're trying to make.

For an individual, yes. For a country? It is just a matter of the country not wanting to spend the money to buy servers, bandwidth, and labor to moderate.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by jesuscript »

hunfell wrote: post #301
jesuscript wrote: post #213

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I immediately noticed a dark dynamic based on the analytics. Lucky for OP, they are making Lego videos. However, if you are in the business of selling your opinion or sexuality, and you start to see that people click on certain hot takes or less-clothes on, you will start to morph to cater to that traffic. I wonder how this destroys a person (the greed). Totally taking the convo in the darker direction, but you can s…

His trans critiques are very reasonable though, particularly when he talks about males in women's sports, males in women's prisons, and the social contagion aspect of this type of identity. These are the questions that cut across the entire political spectrum, as there are plenty on the left questioning the excesses of this activist movement too.

Depends.

I agree they are reasonable, but it’s kind of like a cock tease dog whistle (maybe a less crude way to put it is a feint dog whistle).

If you take a Kanye, and he says ‘I love Hitler’, that’s a blow horn. But if you say, ‘There are a lot of Jews in Hollywood, and look at all that stuff that’s going on in Palestine’, now we’re angling. Everything you are saying is reasonable, but you are reconnoitering around the rim of a specific demographic.

I guess the question is, is this subtle play going past you, or are you letting it get a pass?

He’s keeping one foot in the ring because it’s a pragmatic way of acknowledging the existence of those viewpoints.

I’m not saying black people commit a lot of crime, but look at this shoplifting video. Proceeds to show black people looting. We need to do something about crime.

There are ways to hold that audience without being an outright demagogue.

I like Rogan, but this manipulation in the interest of holding that broader audience smells a little. Integrity is the word I guess.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by overrun11 »

a4a4a4a4 wrote: post #266
lynx23 wrote: post #260

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> only restricting that freedom where absolutely necessary I used to believe this as well. I was thaught a lesson... In fact, now I understand that liberals, when given the power, will corrupt into totalitarism in a few months.

Agreed with you on "modern liberalism" devolving into totalitarianism. "Classical liberalism" doesn't allow for that though. In practice, I don't think anyone in the US follows the latter strictly enough for prevent the same decay anyway though.

You might find "Why Liberalism Failed" by Patrick Deneen interesting if you haven't read it already. He argues that modern liberalism is the inevitable successor to classical liberalism.
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