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You gotta get a million views to earn a thousand bucks?!
That has been true for a while. Ever since "the adpocalypse". I'm surprised you missed it because it felt like every YouTube creator was complaining about it for an entire year ( which I'm not really against, I just don't give a shit about YouTube inside baseball).
That's why every video now has " brought to you by... Whatever" in the middle of it.
Yeah I don't invest much time into addressing youtuber complaints. But I'll take what you said at face value.
They're working class in the entertainment industry, their complaints are as valid as any other laborer.
It's also a machine that thrives on manufacturing drama for clicks. And I just won't engage in the 'meta drama' around any community.
Working conditions and payment disputes are not "meta drama" and more than a "community" it's an industry of freelancers. You may not care for it but independent entertainment is a huge part of our culture right now, in terms of hours watched per day and revenue generation. It's a parallel arm of the gig economy, uncontracted workers entirely at the mercy of huge media companies and the fickle public.
I thought being a creator on youtube was about tricking people into doing massive amounts of video editing for very little pay.
Absolutely true. There isn't a single content creator that knows how to edit their videos. This demanding task can only be done by people who don't create content. For every successful content creator, there are three broke editors adding JL cuts in iMovie.
A $1 CPM (per thousand impressions) is actually pretty good for a platform like Pornhub where I assume most people are logged out/incognito etc. on an adult content.
If YouTube is really only paying out $0.34 CPM to that creator, that is atrocious. They must be getting like 20% rev share.
you're gonna have to verify on ph though
if only someone makes a great youtube alternative that pays $1-5 cpm, but DOESN'T shut down like blip or vidme. seriously!