YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by PunchTornado » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 11:55 AM UTC

wastedhours wrote: post #146

PunchTornado wrote: post #138

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why force equal outcomes on such a niche place like Youtube? on Instagram the top earners are all females. Kylie Jenner makes $1 million per post, Selena Gomez 800k. And it is ok to be like that as Instagram is 70% female.

> why force equal outcomes on such a niche place like Youtube? I didn't get that from the OP at all - I think it's a valid (and quite an interesting) question to pose (especially as a marketer): what is it about YouTube's audience that seemingly favours male creators? Not about "forcing" anything, but it's always interesting to dive into why platform demographics differ and the reasons behind it. (Also, my assumption…

> What is stopping women and girls from dominating Youtube?

I think it is valid in English language to consider this sentence as saying women doing better than men on the platform. dominate is not another word for equality in English.

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

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Post by xte » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 12:02 PM UTC

dogma1138 wrote: post #197

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I think not. I think I have a clear understating on how we trade Science for neoaristotelism because someone want brainless, managerial-driven, commercial-servant research instead of Science and culture.

You are really barking up the wrong tree, I think you took a wrong turn on your way to the rally comrade.

A small example: take a young CAD/CAE/CAM engineer, ask he/she to design something for doing a certain job. Ask the same to an ancient engineer. Compare results.

The young will give you a well simulated part/assembly ready for first prototype, the ancient normally gives you small note and a drawing. Prototype the two: the younger one is generally far more complex to being build, costly and far less effective than the ancient one. And it's not a matter of experience, it's a matter of different way of thinking.

Today we spent enormous time in bureaucracy with ridiculous stuff from ITIL/Kanban to the last bit, we spent enormous time in detailed reasoning being on contrary incapable of see the big picture. That's why for instance in shipping company when a (rare) EU doctor (we have less reformed medicine studies than the USA) went in the USA local seafarers they put themselves in the queue for being visited by "real" doctors.

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

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Post by everdrive » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 12:04 PM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #190

jacobush wrote: post #156

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I think many who grew up in the transition phase became hooked on arts or other creative things like programming. (Programming can often be an art in itself, especially if done for fun.) But today, when I can barely get shit done with all the distractions at my fingertips, I wonder if I could learn the basics before gravitating towards something passive.

The lack of internet on my LCIII as a kid forced me to scour every bit off these dozen or so "Nautilus" CDs we got in the mail. They were like little random chunks of internet. Some demos, software, music, a video (holy crap video on a computer!!!), And lots of written media. It forced me out of necessity to give time to content I never would have bothered with otherwise. Boredom is so healthy.

No doubt. I'm glad to see other people saying this. I used to be bored all the time, and it did wonderful things for me.

Among those: the media, fiction, or interactions that were meaningful to me held more space in my mind. They weren't competing against a sea of trash and new stimulus.

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

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Post by belorn » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 12:05 PM UTC

keiferski wrote: post #183

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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.…

The idea that children "decide" to escape reality is completely ludicrous. The purpose of parents and society is to make good decisions for the future of their children, not pretend like they're opting-in to media manipulation.

The term escaping carries a rather strong implied meaning that its not a opt-in choice in the absence of that which to escape from. It is simply the result when there is no social support from parents and society (ie adults), and the environment that exist in schools that results in bullying and other anti-social behavior.

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

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Post by rorykoehler » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 12:09 PM UTC

SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #152

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With $22m in the bank he could give it all up at a drop of a hat, put it all into passive investments and live the life of a king off the proceeds.

It's very easy to blow $22m in a very short amount of time, especially with his teenage years not all that far ahead of him.

Not if you can't touch it

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

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Post by hndamien » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 12:10 PM UTC

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'm not sure it is so simple. As a point of counter anec-data I was always kind of concerned about this, and I even developed a slightly unhealthy habit with my phone when I sank into depression. In any case, we decided an iPad for our son might be helpful for education and we bought one for him/us when he was 1. He used it quite a lot and he learnt maths really early. As he has grown up - now 3, he only occasionally uses his iPad. To be honest, I find it quite strange that it hasn't turned out how we all would expect it to. I've been conscious to not put crappy advertising games on there, or anything with psychological hooks. But I honestly don't think it is the device that is the root of the problem.

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

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Post by sorum » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 12:11 PM UTC

eklitzke wrote: post #14

wesleytodd wrote: post #11

It amazes me the amount of advertising dollars funneled into advertising to users who are not even allowed to use the website (those under 13).

Kids watch the videos, then ask their parents to buy the toys. Same way toy advertising works on television.

Or like He-Man, where the entire premise was to create a cartoon they could sell action figures from. Rewatching it, the plot wasn’t all that coherent. But that didn’t matter, because Battle Cat was cool and Skeletor’s castle had a microphone and speaker built in.

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Post by rasz » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 12:14 PM UTC

LanceH wrote: post #51

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…

My six year old has started running around the house without his shirt, lifting things and drinking milk so that he can be all swole. That or he watches chrisfix videos on how to repair the car. I highly recommend the chrisfix videos, btw. We've both learned a lot about cars.

Introduce your kid to Andrew Camarata https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUujfNBK9uv3cIW-P5PX7vA/vid...

Clean language, strong work ethics. Works with heavy equipment, builds a Castle out of Shipping Containers, fixes trucks/boats/bikes/excavators etc.

Mustie1 is another clean educational YTber with similar content: https://www.youtube.com/user/mustie1/videos

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

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Post by Jaruzel » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 12:17 PM UTC

qwertay wrote: post #127

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Youtube is turning 14 next year and computers have been mainstream way longer than that. Personally I was a kid when it was the TVs fault and video games were making kids violent, but imo things turned out just fine.

Trading card games and D&D is ruining kids.

Those darn stick-and-hoop games are ruining our Victorian kids.

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Post by hndamien » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 12:19 PM UTC

nindalf wrote: post #109

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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…

If your kid is hooked to youtube, you have a bit more control than than a parent in the 90s whose kid was hooked to cartoons. Today you could opt out of all advertisements by paying Youtube or installing an ad blocker. That said, I'm not sure you can block channels that are entirely ads, like unboxing channels.

Yes, you can block channels! It is oh so satisfying!