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 diminish » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 6:25 PM UTC

elteto wrote: post #257

diminish wrote: post #64

My 6 y.o. lives in a youtube universe. Every content he creates, he makes a video and publishes on youtube. Making slimes, building stamps, building paper train wagons, visiting places, and of course unpacking toys and stuff. He always concludes video or other stories like `pls press the Like button, and subscribe to my channel in order not to miss a thing`. When I talk too much he says 'papa skip ad', with a tap ges…

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.

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

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Post by diminish » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 6:27 PM UTC

keiferski wrote: post #189

diminish wrote: post #64

My 6 y.o. lives in a youtube universe. Every content he creates, he makes a video and publishes on youtube. Making slimes, building stamps, building paper train wagons, visiting places, and of course unpacking toys and stuff. He always concludes video or other stories like `pls press the Like button, and subscribe to my channel in order not to miss a thing`. When I talk too much he says 'papa skip ad', with a tap ges…

This is like some nightmarish version of the panopticon. Future societies won't have to worry about monitoring their citizens - they'll already be raised to broadcast everything by default.

I also alternate between a panoptic nightmarish future vision, and the fear of becoming an obsolete species.

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

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Post by diminish » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 6:30 PM UTC

deng wrote: post #100

diminish wrote: post #64

My 6 y.o. lives in a youtube universe. Every content he creates, he makes a video and publishes on youtube. Making slimes, building stamps, building paper train wagons, visiting places, and of course unpacking toys and stuff. He always concludes video or other stories like `pls press the Like button, and subscribe to my channel in order not to miss a thing`. When I talk too much he says 'papa skip ad', with a tap ges…

While I think it's great when kids create content, what really scares me are the comments. Youtube is often times such a cesspool, I wouldn't want my kid to interact with that as a creator. How do you handle that?

He currently doesn't care about the comments but most comments are quite offensive. I see him alone, in his room, preparing for a video, rehearsing his speech, and having multiple takes and revisions. Kind of very weird. He comes up with like `papa, i need photopolymer, darkening toner,glue.. because i want to do xx.` . Of course he's pissed off when he hears, as a child he can't touch chemicals.

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

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Post by diminish » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 6:31 PM UTC

bytematic wrote: post #91

diminish wrote: post #64

My 6 y.o. lives in a youtube universe. Every content he creates, he makes a video and publishes on youtube. Making slimes, building stamps, building paper train wagons, visiting places, and of course unpacking toys and stuff. He always concludes video or other stories like `pls press the Like button, and subscribe to my channel in order not to miss a thing`. When I talk too much he says 'papa skip ad', with a tap ges…

That is great that he is creating and wanting to share it! I think some of the personalities out there are dangerous for kids to be emulating though.

That's true. He's now mostly interested in DIY things which has challenges on its own.

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

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Post by andai » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

ovi256 wrote: post #213

andai wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technology is designed as a hyperstimulus. The real world (suffering aside) sucks the same way fruit sucks compared with candy.

Turns out it's a real term in psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus

It's a universal of biology: "when it comes to eggs, a bird can be made to prefer the artificial versions to their own".

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

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Post by EADGBE » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 6:51 PM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #9

ravenstine wrote: post #2

> As he is still a child, 15% of Ryan's earnings are put into a bank account that he can only access when he becomes a legal adult. Why 15%? Why not 100%? Why not even 50%? Should this sit right with me? I want to believe this child isn't being exploited. EDIT: Thanks for clearing that up for me. It seems I was misunderstanding.

It says 15% OF this earnings, he might be getting more than that but 15% is locked up until he is an adult. Even so, the parents are probably the actual 'runners' of the company (?) doing all the work except being on camera. Meaning administrative work, accounting, filming, editing, marketing maybe and so on.

The parents are the producers. Literally.

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

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Post by simmanian » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 6:52 PM UTC

alan_wade wrote: post #111

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…

You're putting a dark twist on it, but personally, I do feel like many of my favorite youtubers are my friends. I might not be their friend, but I love them, they have taught me a lot, and helped me to get through tough times. If I'm sad I can always watch their videos and feel happy and connected to other people. I like people who create awesome stuff, I can relate to them a lot more than to the people I meet in rea…

Junk food will make you full too, but over time make you sick. I fear you're substituting real human connection with cheap alternatives. Cooking healthy food can be annoying and it often makes a mess, but is necessary in the long run.

Dismissing real life people as "not amazing at being real" is ironic to me because people have been the way they are since maybe even before the dawn of homo sapiens. That's just what real is. Not everyone is this charismatic, funny, inspiring character. You still welcome them into your life just as they welcome you into their lives.

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

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Post by EADGBE » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 6:56 PM UTC

gigatexal wrote: post #39

This kid has made more money than I will ever see in my whole life. I’m not jealous I’m proud! I hope he’s got some good support around him as all that money so young could be a recipe for disaster if not managed right. High school comes to mind: if I was a self made millionaire in high school oh man I would likely have been even more wreckeless than I was.

"Youth is wasted on the young."

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

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Post by EADGBE » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 7:03 PM UTC

ishikawa wrote: post #148

It's interesting how so many people criticize this family that is making tens of millions every year. If that is wrong, they should start with TV Shows in which children that are much more exposed and sometimes not having fun doing what they want, make actually a 6 fig salary. Too many grow to be poor and lost adults. At 7 Ryan has enough money for a comfort life.

> At 7 Ryan has enough money for a comfort life.

wayyy more than comfortable

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

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Post by EADGBE » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 7:06 PM UTC

legostormtroopr wrote: post #19

smilesnd wrote: post #10

I wonder if these guess at the income of internet celebrates could some how hurt them when doing taxes.

Only if they don't report. Tax departments usually don't care where the money comes from, as long as they get their cut.

And regardless of whatever supposed income numbers there are out there, only the IRS cares about the 1099's from Adwords and companies sponsoring their content. If they get their appropriate tax checks from those, all is gravy.