| Mr Khan said: News, yes. Reviews, yes. Let's Plays, no. I find the argument that the point of watching the let's plays is the commenters personality to be specious at best. To head off the counterexample, nobody would give a damn about John Madden if he were not commenting for the NFL, that's what brings the eyeballs. Minecraft, Metroid, or Medal of Honor is what brings the eyeballs, not Angry Joe, however much folks may feel otherwise. With news and reviews, you're making an original contribution. With let's plays, you're presenting the work itself with some sort of thin veil that's supposed to make it "okay" to try to make money off of playing videogames. As Lafiel may have mentioned earlier, if Nintendo is doing the same thing to news or reviews, then that is wrong. |
I disagree. I watch Angry Joe's videos because I like that youtuber, he's a funny guy and I respect his opinion and unbiasedness. That's the whole point, though, isn't it? Your definition of "original contribution" may be different from mine...maybe I think that what these youtubers say or do during the videos is "original contribution". After all, if some youtubers have a lot of subscriptions, that must mean that their contribution is somehow relevant...either way every channel should have roughly the same amount of subscriptions.
