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Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M by golemotron on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @12:47AM (#18596665)
> 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.

Just like Mister Roger's Neighborhood in the 1970s.

Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M by MrMember on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:26AM (#18596853)
By all accounts Mr. Rogers wasn't a persona, though, that was the real him. He really did want to be everybody's friend, not for fame or fortune, but because he wanted to make the world a better place.
Re:YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M by eikenberry on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:08AM (#18596779)
Or Johnny Carson for 30 years.