• themurphy@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    Then they removed their ads from all channels below 8,000 hours, right?.. Right?!

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    11 days ago

    Reminds me of that woman who made science videos on both YouTube and Pornhub and she makes more money on Pornhub.

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      10 days ago

      The end result is that channels will just post twice as much slop to get to those hours

      Slop doesn’t get return viewers, which is counter-productive to reaching a watch hours (or subscribers) threshold.

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    11 days ago

    Don’t worry, guys. After creators eat THIS shit sandwich it’ll stop getting worse and everything will be great.

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    12 days ago

    Why I just push Patreon or another platform fuck trying to earn money through YouTube that worthless.

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      11 days ago

      There is peertube as well, but it lacks monetization. And Patreon is not the answer because not many will bother paying each creator separately (it at all). To me subscription sounds like an ideal solution, but of course, not YouTube.

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        11 days ago

        Nebula exists but I subscribed to it like during COVID with Curiosity Stream bundle, however, I find their UI confusing and content discovery was very hard.

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          11 days ago

          Right. I wish more people who post on YouTube would post also on alternatives such as Nebula. I mean it’s only profit for them, isn’t it?

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            10 days ago

            Nebula tightly currates which creators they accept onto their platform. Nobody who doesn’t already have a long track record of creating and publishing quality videos is going to be accepted.

            Which is good for viewers - less slop to wade through. But it’s hard for creators to break into.

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        10 days ago

        There is peertube as well, but it lacks monetization

        It also lacks an audience at any sort of scale.

        I publish on both YouTube and peertube. 3-4000 views on youtube, 10-30 on peertube.

        Also published on odysee for a while, with similarly 2 digit views.

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          9 days ago

          I applaud your for posting on peertube. And yes, you are right, peertube is at early stages, it lacks discoverability, apps (that’d run on chromecast and TVs in general) and monetization as mentioned. But it’s also a chicken and egg situation. I really do hope it takes off for good.

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    11 days ago

    And they will never stop extracting more value. I just want to prop nebula here, it’s great for creators and there’s a lot of them already on there.

    The only thing ‘missing’ is the commenting system, but to me that’s an upgrade.

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      11 days ago

      Comm Systems is essential for the community pointing out mistakes or wrong doings

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      11 days ago

      Nebula is awesome. I took a gamble with them and bought lifetime during their second round two years ago and never regretted it. It has only been getting better, here’s to hope that they keep direction.

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    10 days ago

    Keep moving the goalposts so YT can just keep more of the ad money for themselves and the line moving up. More enshittification, nothing new is created but the service gets worse in the name of profitability.

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    11 days ago

    YouTube became evil the moment we all dislike-bombed their year in review video and they never made another one.

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    11 days ago

    Today I went on shorts and the first video was tucker carlson dropping antisemtic slurs while he cried about ben shapiro. I’m a lib. I don’t watch that garbage. straight up shithole company.

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      11 days ago

      You’re going to need to specify the alleged slurs. Too many people chalk shit like “Israel shouldn’t get to murder children” as anti-semitism.

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          9 days ago

          He is a white supermaist so Jews are not the only group he want to supress. Muslims are the biggest target of remigration calls

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            9 days ago

            Yes sure but the point is the way in which Carlson does antisemitism is the very traditional style, with the conspiracy theories about jews running the world and the charicatures and so on. Nazis famously didn’t love other non white people either, I understand he has plenty of hate to go around. But he is a legit antisemite unlike most people who get called that these days.

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              9 days ago

              Just like tucker spread conspiracies against Jews, he spread conspiracies against Muslims and other group. Can we stop putting a ranking on which type of racism is more important?

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                9 days ago

                It’s not about what racism is more important. Don’t put words in my mouth. As if happens, in this moment anti Muslim hate is actually globally much more important than antisemitism but that has nothing to do with the point I’m making. Just talking about one thing doesn’t mean it’s more important than another thing. IMO it’s quite meaningful to understand the various flavours of right-extremism, it explains a lot about the tensions between the various factions for example. There is currently substantial division on the right about whether to support Israel because they are killing Muslims or to hate them as well because they are Jews, and you may not care or want to think about that, it’s perfectly valid, but the way it plays out will have serious political consequences and effects on the lives of many people

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        9 days ago

        i don’t even want to say it but I get ya and no, it was like a term nazis would use when referring to Jewish food. I just think it’s so incredibly fucked up that the youtube’s algorithm was pumping that vid while a million other vids exist. Unreal.

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    10 days ago

    I had a video of a newsworthy event a while back that went viral, and I made over 5 grand on it over the course of about 2-3 years when YouTube changed its monetization policy to require like 10k subscribers or something before the creator could monetize.

    The video didn’t stop getting views. It had a spike in views just a few weeks ago when something similar happened in the same area. But I haven’t made any money from it in like 8 years.

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    10 days ago

    I know nothing about how YT works. How is 20 million shorts views in 90 days a viable number? That seems ridiculous.

    I guess they’ll keep pushing it till the line starts going down.

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    11 days ago

    Work for free before getting paid! There will still be ads on your videos, but they ain’t sharing the attention money.

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    11 days ago

    There is way too much obvious AI channels on youtube. I encountered them because I like football. A football youtuber called Vizeh did a video about this issue. It is very exhausting to browse youtube this way. I am sick and tired of it.

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    10 days ago

    What is the best social media platform for niche content creators? I’m thinking of starting a small project for one of my hobbies but I’d hope to make at least enough to pay for my setup (mic, camera, etc.). Is that unrealistic?

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      10 days ago

      I wouldn’t count on it, my wife has been trying to the best of her abilities and at the limit of our financial reach…it’s been 10 years so far, 20k on insta and recently picked up YouTube which was now getting close to getting paid pennies…but not anymore it seems.

      You either have to get lucky or have the funds and means to keep pushing yourself into the system until you trip over success.

      My wife had a single sponsor which paid her €20 per month but being sponsored by them led to her followers expecting her to behave like customer support 24/7.

      She now has this co-op with a printer resin company where she gets a percentage of each sale…she made zero in the past 10 months of pushing the product.

      At least she’s happy for being able to share her interest and hobby with a fuckload of other people.

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      10 days ago

      What is the best social media platform for niche content creators?

      Like it or not, youtube still has the biggest audience and the best discovery algorithm (even with it’s flaws).

      And, even with this latest change, still pays better than other platforms.

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      10 days ago

      If youre doing niche hobby stuff why are you even talking about monetization? This is for people who dont have a real job and trying to make it in youtubes version of hollywood.