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Re:4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video] by tweetle_beetle on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:29AM (#24765864)
> They have to make money somehow.

- multiple ads on the video itself

- multiple links to their merchandise in the description

- link promoting a paid YouTube membership in the description (which links to a sponsored video with a referral link to an unrelated financial product)

- 26 referral links in the description

- referral link to a completely unrelated mobile game in the description

- referral link to a completely unrelated mobile game as a pinned comment

- promotion of Patreon in the video itself

It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that without early content access they have no way of monetising their content.

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Re:4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video] by gurustave on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:45AM (#24766048)
They're also a LOT higher budget than the vast majority of other YouTube channels, necessitating all the additional funding streams. I don't know what the final cost for that Protosaber was, but including all the R&D and Man Hours along with the materials, I'm sure its pretty crazy.
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Re:4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video] by slimginz on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:14AM (#24766356)
Not quite the same since it's a much larger team but Linus Tech Tips actually just released a video[1] on how they make money and it shows that diversifying your revenue stream as much as possible is key to be successful on YouTube.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zt57TWkTF4

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Re:4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video] by coddle-hark on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:43AM (#24766025)
Or you could just sign up for the Patreon and get their videos without all that. I don’t see how giving people the option to pay for stuff is a bad thing?
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Re:4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video] by baron_harkonnen on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:50AM (#24766721)
Oh you want to get a base salary as well?

- already have RSUs

- annual bonus

- health care benefits

- paid vision

- paid time off

- snacks in office

It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that without a base salary software engineers have no way of monetising their skills.

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Re:4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video] by ada1981 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:11AM (#24766323)
But who cares if they do use early access content as a way to pay the bills?

You seem like you expect people to work for you for free to create content to entertain you?

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Re:4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video] by devthrowawy on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:40AM (#24766629)
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. They should willingly be making less money?
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Re:4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video] by NikolaeVarius on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:28AM (#24766518)
Give them money to bypass it
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Re:4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video] by tweetle_beetle on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:33PM (#24769999)
It seems I've missed the window to edit my comment, so to address all the negative sibling comments: I am not moralising - I don't care what they do.

Grandparent complained the good content is paywalled. Parent suggested that's because they can't monetise any other way. I provided examples of how they are monetising already.

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