Jim Sterling weighs in on #WTFU

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SuperNova said:

Turkish said:
Youtubers whining and creating controversy around themselves in hopes of getting sympathy from the viewers are the worst kind of videos. LOL 20 minute videos to explain it, just get to the point. If it is that bad, you have patreon.

"content creators" is stretching it, videos about you playing games, you can do it for free.

I wish Google stopped paying the "gaming channels", then we'd see who does it out of love for games and who doesn't, like how it was before. I imagine all the awful let's play stuff with people screaming for attention will stop.

Did you watch any of the videos actually? This is not about let's players. This is a about people who put an insane amount of work and dedication into their videos and still get screwed over. (Not knocking let's players btw. some of them, like VGA have insane production values.)

Have you ever watched a nostalgia critic video? Especially one of the more recent ones? Yes, he rewiews things (not games btw.), but he has a studio, actors for sketches, people decicated to make-up and props. Hell, some of his rewiews don't use any original film material at all, because it's all done with comedic reanactments and the videos still got claimed. This is these peoples livelyhood, not just some entitled pricks whining.

I'm an illustrator, I love my job. I still intent on getting payed for my hard work. The desire to get payed, doesn't say anything about your dedication to your craft. And if someone were to steal my work and sell it as their own that would be a crime and I would do my best to get word about it out there. This is not much diffrent. It's giant coorparations bullying content creators.

Nostalgia critic is big enough to start a patreon, just like Jim Sterling and CGR did.

I hope Google ends the ad revenue program so people who do it for the money(ie the abundance of annoying LPers) will stop making videos and the interesting ones with production values will be left over.