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SuperNova on 04 April 2017
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Ka-pi96 said:
SuperNova said:

That's a big assumption to make, especially since a lot of creators DO finance themselves over the likes of Patreon. Also, if you have a show on youtube that pays well enough through advertisemets in the face of adblockers and decreased ad revenue you have demand. People pay you in views.

But some people might especially be drawn to the fact that youtube offers accessability for everyone with no pay walls attached simply because that kind of environment brees creativity. That does not mean they don't need money to survive. A lot of people also don't like the thought of 'e-begging' and 'milking their audience' (even though I personally don't neccissarily agree with that).

As for alternative platforms, there's none atm let's be honest.

You still have yet to give a single reason why youtubers should have a right to income that no other profession has.

Making videos is a hobby, and like any other hobby if you want to go pro with it you need to do something that attracts viewers/sponsors to you. If nobody wants to sponsor you... well then you don't get paid for it. Why exactly should youtubers get a special privilege there and get paid regardless of whether the sponsors who actually provide the money want to sponsor them or not?

My reason was: they don't. If no one watches their content because it's shit/poorly advertised/still under construction they don't recieve any revenue. Even a viewership of thousands gives you mere pennys on youtube. They get payed per view. I don't know how much clearer I can state that. So their income is directly tied to their ability to create content tht is in demand, much more so than a lot of other professions actually. They already don't have a special privilige and they don't deserve years of hard work taken away from them just like no one expects you to do your job for free all of a sudden.

You act as if this wasn't a system of monetization that has established itself over years and is accepted and relied on.

If you were a train conductor and the company you work for suddenly tells you that from now on they will stop paying you (with money they generated by tcket sales-->youtubered, ad-revenue from designated advertisement space within the trains ---> ad revenue, and by pursuing deals with busieness partners as well as state subvention) but expects you to keep doing your job, you'd probably be pretty appaled. If then someone comes along and tells you: 'Well apparently you're just not a good enough train conductor if people don't individually tip you enough for you to survive! Just persue it as a hobby from now on!' You'd probably think they were crazy because they're completely ignoring every expectation the prior system has set up. No. People aren't randomly going to start tipping you for being on time, because they never had to before. That does not mean you're not valuabe or bad at your job.

I should probably also mention that I don't really care about any of the 'poliical channels' in OP, but this is affecting a lot of non political as well channels right now and we will see what youtube turns into once their reconstruction is complete.