LogFAQs > #947246351

streamofthesky posted...

Those have been around for a long time, if you mean the ones where the youtuber is pitching the product.

This.



Jen0125 posted...

Annoying way to circumvent adblock but ok

It's more that it's a major way most of those YouTubers can keep producing content. Which you presumably want if you're watching their content in the first place.

When YouTube puts ads in a video, they keep most of the money and throw pennies at the content creator. When a content creator does in-video ads or shills their Patreon, they're getting way more money from every ad, which in turn makes it more viable for them to treat content creation like an actual job, which in turn leads to better content.

You may have seen it becoming more common or intrusive lately because YouTube keeps finding new ways to screw over content creators and take money away from them, which in turn is forcing those creators to find new ways to bypass YouTube entirely (either by abandoning it for Twitch, or by switching to Patreon support, or using stuff like Streamlabs to allow donations, etc).

A lot of younger people today seem to feel like they should be given everything for free and nothing should ever cost anyone anything, but that's never been the world we live in. You may find ads annoying, but without the ads you probably wouldn't be seeing the content at all because no one would be making it (and no one would be willing to host it even if they did).
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