If you didn't want to pay for their "content" then why the hell are you watching their video in the first place, if you obviously enjoy what they do, and would want to see them make more of that content?

Some are, some aren't. Hey, newsflash - don't watch them! Also indie film makers WERE making due before YouTube was around, did I ever suggest they weren't? I'm sorry that apparently online advertising is the worst thing ever, I really hope you have a job that doesn't advertise at all in any way whatsoever so you can…

Oh hey, thanks for the shout out and fuck you very much, where in the world did I say that I personally wanted to get paid millions of dollars and make it big through youtube, because for some reason you keep projecting this idea onto me. I am not one of said content creators - sure, I have a rinky dink like 3 episode…

Then don't watch the videos, seriously how are you so dense? If they don't "deserve" to get paid that .0001 cent from your view, then why the hell are you watching them in the first place?

Then don't watch the content, simple as that. If you don't want to watch the advertisements before the content, then don't watch the content. You don't owe the advertisers anything, but if you're watching a content creator and then saying "naw fuck you, I enjoy your work but fuck you getting paid for your work" -…

what the hell are you talking about? I'm not saying "omg I have a youtube channel and I need a million hits and ad revenue" - I'm saying "don't screw over people, and using ad blocker screws over people, especially indie people who aren't making the big bucks as it is." I've made like, what, $2 in ad revenue from blip…

I love how everyone keeps skipping over my main message of "DON'T SCREW OVER INDIE FILM MAKERS" - I'm not saying they're trying to rich, I'm saying don't purposefully screw them over, especially if you're purposefully seeking them out to watch their content. What is hard about this concept?

Did I say that YouTube was the only way? No, I said it's a main way, and most of the facebook, blogs, twitter, etc. POST the YOUTUBE videos, so I don't know what you're trying to prove here.

My actor friends are too busy running around LA on auditions 24/7 or acting or producing or dancing or some other artistic thing because they're artsy people with busy lives. Same with my director friends. Still, they make sketches and spend money out of their own pockets to put them online, or they make music videos,…

Which makes it 100% okay?

My point is don't screw over indie content makers, what's so hard to understand about that? I'm not saying they're going to make it big, I'm saying don't screw over the little guy. Who actively likes screwing over the little guy?

It's about how to block ads, ON THE INTERNET. Entirely different medium.

Yeah I don't have advertisements anywhere, like, anywhere. So no one is fighting back against me for ads. I can't change my approach to advertising as you suggest because I don't have any videos of which to have ads on, except for a tiny itty bitty rinky dink webshow with like 3 episodes and like 600 views all…

Because this conversation wasn't about DVRs, it was about Adblock? Occam's razor dude.

Tell me, when's the last time - aside from watching the 5-30 second advertisement, that you paid for sketch comedy from an indie group?

Well not if people are encouraging installing ad block. Not to mention those people with a million viewers started out with zero viewers as well, and were easily found THROUGH YOUTUBE, which goes back to the sketch comedy thing - who the hell googles "sketch comedy sketches" - most people find new sketch comedy…

Yep because all SKETCH comedians (not stand up, btw) are famous enough to warrant doing that and easily make a cool million.

Because sketch comedians were apparently sucked into an alternate universe, musicians just releasing a music video don't exist at all, and all those people doing quirky reviews? figments of society's imagination!

And what constitutes a real job in your lofty dream world? Working hard? Like content creators who spend hours on their video, usually out of passion, spending their own money on making it? I'm not talking about some dude talking to a camera, I'm talking about the tons upon tons of creative content makers who make…

Because those are the only two people who exist on YouTube and everything they do is representative the plethora of content makers on YouTube, right?