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Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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Post by sodality2 »

ttt0 wrote: post #251
sodality2 wrote: post #223

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He kicked it off of cloudflare, not the internet

They were successfully censored from the internet for quite some time. I believe they were only available through the onion. They must've burned through like two dozens of domains at this point.

Changing info at the registrar would have fixed this, they would probably have only lasted a few minutes w/o DDOS but it's not like cloudflare singlehandedly banished them from the internet. I mean, they sort of did due to the lack of protection, but it's not like cloudflare has the keys to the entire internet; just their ddos service.

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Post by nsilvestri »

vl wrote: post #153
graeme wrote: post #70

I follow CGP Grey’s stuff and it’s been interesting and instructive to see how he diversified. * His Youtube channel is his main platform * However, the money mostly comes from patreon subscribers, and you can also have videos delivered there * He also earns income from a podcast, Cortex * The Podcast has its own brand of sellable things, currently journals and Tshirts * He had a second podcast, hello internet, curre…

CGP Grey is strange, so to say. He effectively abandoned Hello Internet. They once mentioned that they have 900K subs. Grey fully controlled HI, and it was way more popular than Cortex. If he wants to diversify so much abandoning project like this just doesn’t make sense. Also he has no basic decency to announce cancelation and left Tims hanging, for many of whom it was the podcast.

Brady put out a short blog post on the status of Hello Internet about 5 months ago. I felt a bit betrayed as an avid listener that they so suddenly and without any notice for several months stopped putting out episodes, but at least this blog seems to indicate that they simply have their focuses elsewhere for now.

https://www.bradyharanblog.com/hello-internet

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Post by desiarnezjr »

walrus01 wrote: post #210

> Linus Sebastian Something to understand, for those who might have just seen some youtube videos of him being goofy, is that he's an actor . The guy on camera doing stupid stuff is a stage persona. It's an intentionally cultivated image and media persona to get as many video views as possible. I sort of see him as one possible aspect of the low/medium budget TV production stuff which is common in his home city, Vanc…

Linus learned all of this over the years, and optimized it over time. He's great at it now, but was pretty rough at first -- but he was never an actor, he was a geek that loved technology. He worked for a large computer reseller that gave him lots of resources when he was starting.

He actually built this in spite of all the production resources that Vancouver has to offer, and is more a "growth hacker" than actor I'd say.

SOURCE: Linus is a friend...

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Post by Dylan16807 »

krapp wrote: post #208
matheusmoreira wrote: post #152

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Wow that's extremely fucked up. He's right, nobody should have that power. If they do have that power, we should take it away from them.

> Wow that's extremely fucked up. He's right, nobody should have that power. If they do have that power, we should take it away from them. I agree. We should make the government use its monopoly on force to take freedoms away from people we disagree with. How dare a company decide with whom it does business and under what terms?

It's not about agreement or disagreement, it's about monopolies.

I am fine if the government takes away the freedom of corporations to grow arbitrarily large.

I am also fine with the government making corporations choose between the ability to grow arbitrarily large and the ability to kick off users without due process.

There's no need to take any freedoms away from normal-size companies.

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Post by strogonoff »

znpy wrote: post #198

a good story about floatplane: i signed up pretty much as soon as it was announced, then i forgot about it and also forgot my password. i was billed -very little- for a while then i opened a support ticket to have my account restored, since i had been billed for a while i at least wanted to watch some content. but apparently something in the backend had changed and they plainly refunded me from the time i had my last…

The problem with Floatplane is that new creators who have ideas and skills but aren’t publishing elsewhere online (e.g., because they dislike the ad-driven model and don’t want their videos to appear alongside junk content) have nothing in terms of online optics that they could put into the application form—so they’d have to either support the likes of YouTube first by publishing there, or be capable of running their own site. I wish Floatplane charged a moderate fee upfront rather than having the vetting/review flow (which could still be an option for those who can’t afford the fee).

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Post by desiarnezjr »

walrus01 wrote: post #248
brailsafe wrote: post #247

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Do you mean that he's an actor in the sense that he's acting while on camera, or that he's an actor in the sense that his aspirations from the start have been the actual profession and art of acting, but he just failed to get into it and this stuff is his backup? I get the impression that you mean the latter, but it seems far more likely that it's the former. Not that it's unlikely he didn't at some point try and get…

The first part. I didn't mean so much that he's a person who tried and didn't get a part on a Vancouver-produced TV show, but that his video production efforts are part of the whole general Vancouver and Toronto "hollywood north" industry scene of people who act, do camera work, set decoration, costume, cinematography, sound, rigging, grips, etc.

No, it's more "roll your own" but has worked well.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #110
mandelbrotwurst wrote: post #78

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Whichever the platform operator disapproves of.

*at this time. Dr Seuss was totally OK just a few weeks ago. Btw, is "OK" still OK??!

He's still OK.

In fact sales are through the roof thanks to people being dumb about the story.

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Post by XiJInPaddington »

dang wrote: post #334
dang wrote: post #127

All: please let's try to avoid repeating the generic discussion about how being on someone else's platform leaves you vulnerable to someone else. It's not wrong, of course, but it's been repeated for many years and won't lead to fresh conversation. The goal on HN is curious conversation. Curiosity likes diffs [1], not generics [2, 3]. Try to comment in a way that leads to a new place rather than an old place. The eas…

(This is a stub reply so I can collapse the various comments responding to this, so as not to distract too much from the rest of the thread. Sorry, non-JS users.)

"As a nudge in that direction, I've...downweighted the generic subthreads which were rising to the top like bloated balloons and crowding out more interesting discussion (as typically happens in these cases)." - dang, master of HN

"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”

Honestly it's sad how people on this website are okay with this Maoist nonsense, considering how brutally they attack trends like censorship and political correctness.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

tux1968 wrote: post #169
cmeacham98 wrote: post #168

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Disagree. "Trans women are men", in a similar vein to using he/his to refer to trans women, is a tactic used by bigots to indicate that they believe trans women are not "real women" and should be universally treated by society as men. When writing my comment I don't want to have to insert several sentences explaining the nuance that I understand and respect the gender of trans women, but that this is one of those rar…

Fair enough, but the reason they are being excluded from women's sport is because they are not seen as truly women. If they were indistinguishable from women, there would be no way to exclude them without excluding all women. So as soon as we have this discussion, we have to admit there is a difference between a transgender woman and a woman. It may be a bit clumsy to refer to them as men, but that is actually the ba…

> So as soon as we have this discussion, we have to admit there is a difference between a transgender woman and a woman.

No we don't. If the criteria to compete is "you can have high testosterone or testicles but not both", that's not drawing a line between transgender women and cis women.

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