I’ve noted of late that I can skip the first 2-3 paragraphs of just about every Kotaku article; I think that’s coming from somewhere that isn’t the writer.

They have a 20 hour battery life. Those fuckers are fine. Do something about the goddamn tablet.

Good lord im glad you said it so I didnt have to. What even was that

it feels very millennial entitlementy. “the world is different now. it must change to accommodate us.” No this isn’t something new. You’re not an employee. You’re on youtube. You’re like a guy setting up a blog on Wordpress hoping to get advertising revenue. Twitch? Hell they should be ecstatic they even gave them a…

But here’s the thing I’m saying: is it really one? Sure, a few people have earned enough money to do it full time, but that seems to be the exception, not the rule. People chose to make it their full time job, it’s not YouTube’s fault they’re not making enough money to keep going.

The “work and spend your money on me so I don’t have to” mentality is growing so much.

I’ve donated a good chunk of change to fundraising sites but for actual causes for health concerns or medical funds. Not just a “give me money so I can record myself.”

A) Thank you for reading my whole post and understanding each of my points, you jackass gray pretending to be an editor, as if that would fool anyone.

I hope they had backup plans this whole time.

It started as a way to share videos, then people started making it into a career, and are now complaining that the career is unsustainable.

No, largely because I don’t give a tin shit about the MIB universe, and also the characters aren’t in the same universe in some media.

Considering this is how most of the entertainment industry works, I find this statement to be completely true. Youtubers are complaining because most of them don’t have a history in the entertainment field so they don’t understand how the monitization aspects work. In entertainment you never live to your means like…

They deserve exactly what youtube is willing to pay out to them and what fans of their ‘art’ are willing to donate through whatever means.

The problem is that viewers don’t really care about how the sausage gets made. All this oversharing puts pressure onto consumers to shoulder some of the responsibility. It is exhausting given how often this happens.

Yeah, this is more like street performers asking the city to cut them in on city taxes because they bring people downtown though.

Youtube started as a place where people could do stuff for a hobby and that a few could make it big on. People now however all expect to be able to make it big and don’t get why it’s not a realistic job prospect given how unstable a marketplace it is.

Starred you, unstarred you, then starred you again.

Yea, I think the article writer has a fundamental misunderstanding of the scenario. Youtube is a business, not an employer to users. Youtubers are monetizing the service. It’s more akin to selling things through Ebay or craigslist than an employee-employer relationship. If you don’t like the rules, sell your content…

I don’t have a problem with Patreon myself, but I can understand your position on this. That said I can also understand the youtuber outcry, if you will. Many of these people have built their finances on video production and showmanship. To have that become un-stabilized would lead anyone to start crying out, in rage…

I feel you.

Creators’ lack of physical presence works against them in ways that teachers and coal miners never have to face.