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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I mean, yes YouTube is greedy, but a big part of that is pronhub allowing very predatory ads, from scams and chatbots and straight up malware companies, who are willing to pay more

[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 42 points 6 days ago (2 children)

YouTube absolutely shows ads that are predatory, scams, malware, and chatbot adjacent... literally the only difference is whether an erect dick is visible and tbh I'm not fully convinced YT hasn't let porn ads through.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Wasn't there like straight up Minecraft character porn on YouTube? For like, a not insignificant amount of time.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Most ads I see on YouTube are like meal prep companies, IT services and random brands.

[–] desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

youtube (google) is known for targeted ads so it is expected that you will have a different ad experience

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

and Ofc they are owned by a private equity firm. (i mean by design this type of company is supposed to make a company very valuable and sell it off)

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

32k PH views vs. 981k YT views.

Rough math on that is 32 dollars vs. ~339 dollars. So uhh... okay.

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, that's besides the point. Most people go to porn hub for less mathsy videos. Plus, it's extra money for just putting the already made video there

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

By all means, go get that paycheck, that asterisk is doing some seriously heavy lifting though.

[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 149 points 1 week ago (16 children)

The moral of the story is: Watch PornHub videos instead of YouTube videos to do your part to support content creators.

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 122 points 1 week ago (13 children)

How the heck do the YouTubers I watch sustain themselves on $330 / million? That seems really unsustainable when they only very rarely break 5 million.

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 144 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Many, many videos, patreon, streaming, sponsors, etc.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My very uneducated understanding is merch is the most profitable avenue for many Youtubers.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Youtubers are the new touring musician, it seems.

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[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 67 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That's why they always tell you to SMASH that like and subscribe button

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sponsorship can easily get you a good 4 digit deal per video. Even for small-ish creators. 5 digits if you regularly get million plus views

Patreon is the other big one

Fun fact: yt premium views pay orders of magnitude more per view. In a world where a large percentage of viewers have premium, there would be almost no incentive for most small and medium sized channels to have sponsors in videos

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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In addition to what others have said, the value per million views changes depending on how profitable your audience is. Education is notoriously low, something like makeup is much higher.

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[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

For a lot of creators it may not even be about the money they earn directly from it. I have a small educational YouTube channel. It brings in about 20 bucks per month in ad revenue, more in the past when I was more active. But really it's a nice feather in my cap and something neat on my resume. A modest YouTube channel won't pay enough by itself to make the effort worthwhile. But if that channel gets you over the top on a new high paying job? Then it's worth it. In this context, a YouTube channel functions as a kind of personal brand/promotional material.

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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 108 points 1 week ago (5 children)

They censor her name from the post, but not the screenshots?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 39 points 1 week ago

I have never understood this impulse to censor content which is publicly available. Like she wrote that and put it on the internet under her name, presumably she's all right about people knowing about it.

[–] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 24 points 1 week ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

It's LinkedIn, they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed

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[–] malloc@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’m not jorking it. I’m studying, bro

[–] BlameTheAntifa@piefed.social 67 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Does anyone think there is a PornHub market for a fully dressed old lady who paints Warhammer?

[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

If you want to do it in an entertaining or educative way, someone will probably like watching it. Most channels never pay back the cam. But if it's a hobby you like doing, that's fine.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

Might need to take your socks off

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

Just get a banger microphone and whisper while you paint. Throw in some sexual ennuendos here and there.

"Oh stay still like a good little boy while I get you ready."

"Hmm you're all wet here (with paint). Not sure if it's ready for more."

👀🤣

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[–] sudo@programming.dev 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Still making 10x more on youtube, $32.81 vs $333.54

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 36 points 1 week ago

With one simple trick she could make 10x more on PornHub, but this would reduce the YouTube income to $0.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait. STEM vids on PornHub?

[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, hot teachers are pretty much a mainstream fetish. And some students probably come for porn but stay for the lessons.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Semen, titties, erections and mathematics!

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[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly, if anyone were to compete with YouTube and not be trying to rub their fanny all over the government for good boy points...

I'm pretty sure that's why it's illegal in red states.

Shit maybe that's what all these data centers are actually for. Make a billion fake ai Instagram people and flood the US Internet to help shape the narrative. You'd obviously want to funnel views toward your buddies and away from anything unpredictable.

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[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Good thing they covered her name at the top, wouldn't want to have it in too many places on the image...

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 24 points 1 week ago

I've seen this reposted for years now.

[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Comfort to me, what does that even mean?

One reason, do we persevere?

Existing for the sake of existing, meaning disappears

Meanwhile, I only just started learning basic politics

Meanwhile, they sexualize my body and get mad when I exploit it

It's just for capital

Am I an animal?

It's just for capital, capital, capital

But do I care at all?

Amyl and The Sniffers - Capital immediately came to mind.

It's hard to survive in late stage capitalism. Might as well exploit it.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This. Don't ever fuck over a person. But fuck over corporations and institutions as much as you desire. For the purposes of these instructions I don't consider billionaires to be people

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