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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by SketchySeaBeast » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:21 PM UTC

overrun11 wrote: post #364

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #320

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The original claim was: > liberals, when given the power, will corrupt into totalitarism in a few months. Is your complaint an actual example of that? I've never actually heard the argument - I've heard "billionaires should not exist", but never "we should have a 100% tax on those making more than $100m", so I don't know if the claim you're making is as popular as you're making it out to be, nor do I believe is it an…

> nor do I believe is it an example of totalitarianism These conversations never go anywhere. The battlelines are already drawn. It just becomes a semantic debate around loosely defined terms like totalitarianism.

Yeah, fair enough. It's become synonymous with "something I don't like".

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by FatActor » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:21 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #4

So they make around $150K/year but likely pay more tax, higher overheads, and have to fund their own benefits out of that. Depending on where they live this could either be a very good income or only marginally higher than tech wages with much higher risk/stress. That's on 2M-6M viewers too. Makes me wonder how YouTube channels like Linus Tech Tips are able to seemingly hire around one-hundred full time staff? I have…

I think that's the hot take here. $150k/yr for that much work and future instability compared to an office job with a ton of benefits... Hmmmm... For non-techies maybe this is the golden goose, but for people in the tech world for more than a decade it would probably be a no go, it would be for my family.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by nerpderp82 » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:30 PM UTC

makeitdouble wrote: post #25

The most impressive part is the creator gets to have a probably comfortable living from a channel that grew organically and still 100% depends on youtube’s algorithm. I follow the channel for years now, anyone not familiar should have a look [0]. It’s not “viral” targeted videos with crazy face thumbnails, borderline clickbaity titles, ABtested through a week, no “I got to stick to the schedule” weekly videos etc. Th…

> kind Youtube probably wanted to encourage the most

I would caution against anthropomorphizing YT. I have been a Premium user for probably as long as the program has been out. YTA only cares about behaviors that drive engagement. That is it, it is just a skinner box.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by gretch » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:31 PM UTC

pojzon wrote: post #193

system2 wrote: post #42

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Another example is probably the Primitive Technology channel. Last week I was reading his interview and he mentions $1M savings from his channel.

He would make a lot more if not ppl blantly copycat’ing him and his work. Primitive Life, Primitive Tools, Primitive Technology Ideas… Youtube should take those channels down or force them to change name due to how SOE works.

You seem to be against this idea of 'copycating' but our society has put a lot of thought into what's Trademark-able and what's not.

In particular, his name is incredibly descriptive - it's just a plain description of what the thing is: primitive technology. We specifically disallow that when it comes to trademarking because it would basically give you an extremely wide monopoly right away.

Consider that "Corn Flakes" is not trademarked because it's just a literal description of what the food is. It would be dumb if people couldn't call their product "corn flakes". Compare that to say a product called "Cheerios" which is just a made up term, and it would be very unjustifiable for people to copy this.

> SOE

Do you mean "seo"?

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by SpelingBeeChamp » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:41 PM UTC

truetraveller wrote: post #248

SpelingBeeChamp wrote: post #224

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To highlight just how crazy things can get, my highest-earning YouTube video has earned well-over $100,000 in AdSense revenue. But that’s not the end of the craziness. About a year ago, that video was suddenly and inexplicably deemed by YouTube as unsuitable for all advertisers. I appealed, but they stuck with their decision. In the year since, that video has brought in ~$80. While I have found success on YouTube, I…

Very interesting. Link to your video?

Unfortunately, I’m not comfortable sharing that. To whatever extent it still is, I prefer to keep my HN identity anonymous.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Scoundreller » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 5:55 PM UTC

jve wrote: post #169

Scoundreller wrote: post #75

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I personally dislike the “channelization” of YouTube. The whole point of the internet is that it doesn’t have the restrictions of linear media. Search solves that problem of content discovery. Now YouTube won’t pay you unless you have 1000 subscribers. But a lot of content just isn’t subscribeable and that’s ok . Pre-1000 sub requirement, I put up a video for a niche MacBook Air microphone issue and repair that wasn’…

> repair my Neato vacuum cleaner Hey, any chance your robot went from base, turns on, then turns off? Then cycles on/off again... I have mine D75 here which I started to fix by cleaning but no luck.

Nope, mine was persistently saying it’s stuck. The brush was jammed. Turned out you can pull off the non-drive side of the brush, dis-assemble with a pick and clean out the disk of internalized gunk that has starting to roll over itself.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by pnathan » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:06 PM UTC

BEC is one of the best YouTube channels. Not per se because of the legos, but in how the videos assess and iterate. Also, as another HN commentator pointed out, its not "baity", (s?)he doesn't do any of the stupid BS to hype him(her?)self.

Yes, I'm in the target audience: middle age male in US.

I think this is the perfect example of a niche area with an whale/long-tail distribution. It demonstrates the futility - to me - of doing any serious "YouTubing" as a professional plan - its something you have to strike luck and then build on.

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Post by wincy » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:06 PM UTC

apocalyptic0n3 wrote: post #324

wincy wrote: post #296

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I mean based on their podcast it sounds like Linus’ friend/employee (seems like the line here is pretty blurry) and some remote dev who was originally just a fan criticizing their proposed infrastructure work on it full time and that’s about it, so it’s probably not as expensive overhead as you might assume.

On Friday, Luke said he had ~20 people reporting to him. I believe a few are on the Labs side, but most of them are Floatplane employees. They also maintain LTT Store and build out other projects, so they may not be solely dedicated to Floatplane, but it's a much bigger operation than you suggest.

Ah okay I guess you’re more informed than I am. Thanks for the info!

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Post by pnathan » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:10 PM UTC

swyx wrote: post #131

> There are many, many creators who release Lego videos continuously and have no subs and get no views. Too many. Hundreds, maybe thousands of such creators. It is kind of heartbreaking to see people put so much time and effort for (supposedly) nothing. this is the saddest part. he is in the top 0.1% of his genre and making $90 an hour, but 99.9% of them make nothing. i dont know what drives people to want to make vi…

Some people love video the medium.

I tried doing a video of myself talking off the cuff on a topic. Watching myself, it was painful. I obviously needed to write myself a script, do editing, etc. I would rather just write the text, and skip the video bit. :)

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by pcblues » Tue, Jan 03, 2023, 6:13 PM UTC

thatguy0900 wrote: post #274

texasbigdata wrote: post #263

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He’s had (guessing, including multi guest, and the mma pieces) close to 2,000 guests, and probably has spoken about trans a maximum of 5 times? Call it 1%. If you assume a 2 hour podcast length and a 2 minute instagram length clip that’s 0.01%ish? That’s probably at (or maybe significant below) main stream medias coverage of the topic but that’s a wild guess. I’m guessing (but not willing to check although it’s easil…

I went to one of his stand-up shows last year. Both him and the guys he had opening all had maybe 30% trans jokes. He's definetely catering to an antitrans crowd these days

I wonder how many in the crowd are reacting to being labelled antitrans and transphobic unfairly. It's definitely what I see the comedians reacting to.