Consistently one of the worst paying social media services and not exactly in a generous market.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2026
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I’m sure this will result in much less stupid useless shit on YouTube.
But stupid useless shit is also the most popular stuff on YT! 😔
I like the animated stuff like monkey wrench and lackadaisy and and my stories and the science and engineering videos and the sovcit public meltdown vids. I’m not sure where else to go for those. I don’t think I find as much on nebula and I’ve heard peer tube kinda has a never-grew-up vibe to it.
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.
maybe youtube wants us to switch to torrents.
piracy? yes.
but they(youtube) honestly cant even afford to serve the content and remain profitable.
so....
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get fucked, that's what you get from using google services
good. hopefully this will improve the quality for the first time in 14 years or so. Monetization is essentially synonymous with enshittification. Less monetization -> less enshittification. Less need to put stupid red arrows and bug eyes on your thumbnails. etc. I don't even care if youtube is just straight taking all the difference. Anything to decrease the number of people who are in it for the money is good.
Easy to say if you're not a creator.
I write, edit, record, and publish everything I create, all by myself.
Devaluing smaller creators is going to mean more AI slop, because more people will be motivated to take shortcuts.
And those who don't will probably quit. Creating authentic content and growing a channel takes time, and a lot more of it now.
Yes, that was my whole point. I want you to quit if you are trying to make money on youtube.
I write, edit, record, and publish everything I create, all by myself.
Patreon, Nebula, even Audible will give you a better cut of the proceeds.
Devaluing smaller creators is going to mean more AI slop
Video slop is even less commercially viable than the audio, pictures, and literature.
Sora got yanked off the market inside a few months due to how badly it burned tokens for video nobody wanted to look at.
At a fraction of the audience
I see a lot of quality. And none of these people, even though a lot of them are pretty damn popular, will be making money anymore.
good
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