More than a decade later, how original YouTube stars feel about the site

Re:More than a decade later, how original YouTube stars feel... by tyfon on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @05:07AM (#14694582)

I am 36, living in Norway working as an analyst. We do not have regular TV and my wife and I usually watch youtube if we watch something at all.

The evenings we have spare time, we fire up the PS3 or PS4 and play something. Much more engaging than TV :)

The kids use netflix etc though, but also a lot of youtube.

There is one thing I miss about youtube from the earlier days though. People uploading and creating stuff because they wanted to do it, not because they wanted to make money. It makes such a huge difference.

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Re:More than a decade later, how original YouTube stars feel... by j2bax on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @08:52AM (#14695556)

I still follow a handful of channels that don't feel like they exist to advertise/monetize. They are far too passionate about their content matter for that to be the case. That said I hope the creators are being compensated well for their efforts.

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Re:More than a decade later, how original YouTube stars feel... by pc86 on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:25AM (#14702629)

Many of them are probably on Patreon even if they don't shill it constantly in the videos. If you enjoy their content you should try to give them something - I follow several content creators who make over a thousand dollars a month, almost entirely from $1-5/video donations.

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