Current Events > Why are so many people vehemently against Youtubers being paid?

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Everytime something comes up about YouTubers losing revenue I hear so many people saying good and they they deserve to lose their livelihoods and I can't understand this mentality,they provide a service people are willing to flock to en masse, why don't they deserve any compensation for their success?
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Theyre all lazy fuckheads.

If they don't get paid, google keeps it all, right?
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People have weird-ass anti-labor attitudes. Guess they'd rather see Google pocket the money.
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Youtube seems vehemently against it.
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Jellybeans
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Antifar posted...

People have weird-ass anti-labor attitudes. Guess they'd rather see Google pocket the money.

I think the issue is many people don't understand the work that goes into making videos to put on youtube and are jealous at the thought of someone making easy money while they go off and work a "real" job.

Creative jobs tend to be undervalued by people who are unfamiliar with the amount of effort that goes into them.
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envy that they don't possess the naturalborn charisma, talent, and confidence to make money off youtube themselves

Because the people complaining about this either dont have jobs because theyre NEETs or or they work minimum wage and think they do oh so much more Work than content creators
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Seems like the perfect job, you get both attention and money. The two most valuable commodities in the modern world
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Tmaster148 posted...

Creative jobs tend to be undervalued by people who are unfamiliar with the amount of effort that goes into them.

It's not just creative jobs; you see it also in sports. Entertainment in general.
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Haters gonna hate
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they deserve whatever compensation they earn, it just turns out they were mistakenly overvalued and now REEing at the correction

I don't have a problem with it.

Hell, wish I could climb onboard that gravy train.
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Should stop piggy banking off other peoples content.

Wow, a reaction video to Gangnam Style! Give me monies pls.
Wow, a lets play of Super Mario 64! Give me monies pls.

Please *****, if you had to come up with something original that didn't include another person's/company's content, you'd be earning 0$.

id rather they not beg for money claiming poverty they have merch and patreons and tons of other things yet always say they need money to keep going gtfo
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I'm not, they're just paid through ad revenue.

What I find amusing is that they spend thousands on a workstation PC just for their own vids that often don't have special effects. Pretty cool way to make money.
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They're jealous that people are becoming successful doing what they love while they're stuck in a dead end job that they hate barely scraping by.
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HiddenRoar posted...

Should stop piggy banking off other peoples content.

Wow, a reaction video to Gangnam Style! Give me monies pls.
Wow, a lets play of Super Mario 64! Give me monies pls.

Please *****, if you had to come up with something original that didn't include another person's/company's content, you'd be earning 0$.

All of this falls under fair use. Tons of people make money in other fields reacting to things and reviewing videogames/movies if millions of people watch them, who are you to say they don't deserve to be paid?
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I get mad when they complain about not getting enough money to play video games. Ok then get more viewers. Shut up, you play video games for money.
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Because they are jealous that they are able to make a living off of something they want to do, playing video games.
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I'm not against it, I just don't give a fuck about them. They're getting paid for a hobby in an unreliable market. Stop whining like a bunch of children.
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Do it because you want to make videos not because you want to make money.

I actually don't believe rhis but that was the main argument people made about mod creators.
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KhlavicLanguage posted...

they deserve whatever compensation they earn, it just turns out they were mistakenly overvalued and now REEing at the correction

This
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I think people don't understand how much money they actually make. The lazy, annoying people (side note, every youtuber people have complained are "annoying" are just regular people you see in the world everyday. I have no idea how you survive outside your house if your tolerance is that low) that most people complain about are probably getting pennies per day. People who put effort into their videos are the successful ones, and they can often barely get by. The very successful ones are very rare.

There's also a ton of behind the scenes stuff you have to do. Research, writing a script, and editing take a ton of time. Then there's all the advertising stuff, talking with fans, promoting videos, see what people like/dislike for future ideas, monitoring comments.

People seem to think the successful Youtubers just spend an hour or 2 and spit out a video, and then rake in the cash.
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Sounds like a bad idea to depend on youtube revenue. Not my problem.
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Because they see someone like PDP who's just a screaming "Theater Whore At Times" playing call of madden '97 and they assume all youtubers are like that. What they don't understand is every video can take twice as long if not longer to edit. If I make a hour long video and it takes 2 hours to edit (3 hours total), how am I supposed to produce content everyday and hold down a job?

They don't realize the audience isn't just watching someone play a game. They're entertaining us, HCBailly is giving us 100% walkthroughs for all the Final Fantasies, and GameGrumps' constant jokes leave us in stitches. Some of us like the look on somebody else's face when they see their favorite plot twist; ever look over at your friends during a movie? It's a way to relive games we already beat without getting through level 7 all over again cause that boss is a pain in the ass.

TLDR; Stand up comedians get paid a lot more for less work.
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I don't mind it at all.

I have issues with reaction videos, though. Those can fuck off already.
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Envy.
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Because people like DSP get tons of money for doing the bare minimum.
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DoomSwell posted...

GameGrumps' constant jokes leave us in stitches.

THATS funny. Theyre garbage and they do fine.
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Bitter people with entitlement issues.
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because monetizing content inherently drives annoying af trends.

eg. "if you like this shit then subscribe and comment below"

also, the ads.... the fucking ads every time i load up a goddamn 1 minute video.

so yeah, if i had to choose between them getting paid and me getting a hassle free experience i say screw em.
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Unsustainable bubble is unsustainable. Also all the whining about youtube withdrawing the money-teat is insufferable.

It's great and all that they were able to make a bunch of money while they could, but there's no inherent right or entitlement to get payed to stream video game gameplay. It's all at the grace and mercy of Google.

People are jelly.
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Because people like DSP get tons of money for doing the bare minimum.

if it's so easy, you do it, and be better at it than he is.
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Pancake posted...

Because people like DSP get tons of money for doing the bare minimum.

if it's so easy, you do it, and be better at it than he is.

The bubble's popped.

I am not against them getting paid. I am against them getting paid millions of dollars.

ZombiePelican posted...

HiddenRoar posted...

Should stop piggy banking off other peoples content.

Wow, a reaction video to Gangnam Style! Give me monies pls.
Wow, a lets play of Super Mario 64! Give me monies pls.

Please *****, if you had to come up with something original that didn't include another person's/company's content, you'd be earning 0$.

All of this falls under fair use. Tons of people make money in other fields reacting to things and reviewing videogames/movies if millions of people watch them, who are you to say they don't deserve to be paid?

https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/

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Cause they're mad that they didn't get in on it before it came crashing down, and probably don't understand the effort it takes to make quality content
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MarqueeSeries posted...

Cause they're mad that they didn't get in on it before it came crashing down, and probably don't understand the effort it takes to make quality content

Yup. Also probably mad that they didn't get in early and become established before competition set in. Running a successful YT channel long term takes a lot of work, and a willingness to adapt to the audience/what works (which is why so many tend to go down the same path in terms of trends).
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The better question is why do you care so much?
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I just dislike how almost every monetised channel always tell their Watchers to subscribe to their channel to watch more videos at the end of the video, despite clearly only doing so to increase their revenue.
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lFollowTheToS posted...

Theyre all lazy fuckheads.

This is wrong. Being a YouTube personality takes alot of work and costs money even for all the equipment

I personally enjoy a lot of channels that take deep dives into sports and shit like that.
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Tmaster148 posted...

Creative jobs tend to be undervalued by people who are unfamiliar with the amount of effort that goes into them.

This tends to be it, as well as jealousy that Youtubers get to do something they love and make money off of it.

I tend to support my content creators whenever I can, in whatever way I can. Recently turned off ublock on Youtube just so that I can keep supporting them.
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To be fair if you're a channel and you're only just now realizing Youtube prioritizes advertisers over you, you deserve whatever happens. The smart ones jumped ship years ago.
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Yeah this makes me a rage too. People get mad whenever they try to make money but why can't content creation just be their job. The free market seems to indicate that people want to view the content, and often demand more, and when big content creators have day jobs it can be hard to put in the time. Why not pay them for the entertainment. I don't see the problem.
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