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Alkibiádēs said:
LurkerJ said:

No, he's not. He's an amazing original content creator. His fans want more of his conent so they donate so he could dedicate more time to what he does. If his fans decide his output quality and quantity aren't on par, they can pull the plug. He's offering entertainment and people are paying for it. That's not begging, you are just an idiot who doesn't know the meaning of the word.

You throw around the word "amazing" pretty quickly. His reviews are poorly written. He comes across as an uneducated person when analysing his writing style. Hardly "amazing". What serious critic throws words like "fuck" around in his reviews? Roger Egbert is amazing, Jim Sterling is just a brat sharing his opinion online. 

He's asking people to donate money to him, how is that not a form of begging? It's also pretty obvious that the Youtube crowd doesn't care about quality if you look at how many subscribers people like Pewdiepie have. 

It's not begging because he's offering something in return for the money. You and I can disagree about the quality of his content but it doesn't turn, what he does for a living, begging. 

I don't like what Taylor Swift offers her fans but they pay up to listen to her crap anyways. That doesn't make her a beggar, it makes her a smart business woman.

There's also a big difference between how PDP and Jim's business model but that's not relevant to the definition of "Begging" so I won't get into that.