• tempest@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    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.

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      9 hours ago

      YouTube creator was complaining

      Yeah I don’t invest much time into addressing youtuber complaints. But I’ll take what you said at face value.

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        8 hours ago

        They’re working class in the entertainment industry, their complaints are as valid as any other laborer.

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          7 hours ago

          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.

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            6 hours ago

            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.

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          8 hours ago

          I thought being a creator on youtube was about tricking people into doing massive amounts of video editing for very little pay.

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            6 hours ago

            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.