Non-Pewdiepie youtubers about the Nintendo Youtube program

[Mr Khan]

shikamaru317 said:

Mr Khan said:
The trouble is you have people making money off of stuff they shouldn't be making money off of. You want money, create content. Talking to yourself while playing video games is not content.

Oh come now, 10's of millions of people wouldn't be subscribed to Let's Players if that was the case. I legitimately find my favorite Let's Player, Jesse Cox, more entertaining than the vast majority of modern TV shows. If commentary isn't content then why do sportscasters get paid so much money to do their job? 

The issue is the money. These folks are doing what they enjoy and have a chance to share it with others, we're all in agreement up to that point (for instance, i would oppose any game maker deleting a let's-play due to a DMCA takedown notice), but fair use is the part where you don't make money off of the thing in question. I'm all for fanart, fan fiction, fan commentary.

What you're equivocating is like somebody rebroadcasting themselves watching an NFL game and armchair-commenting, then deciding that they're going to make a living off of that. Legally specious and certainly not correct.