Actually most game centric youtubers have been having financial troubles as well. even people with multi million sub counts are seeing.huge drops in income. The huge channels can take the hit bit anyone under a mil are starting to feel it.
Thats why theres more ads, more patreon, and even more youtubers going to twitch. Youtube is becoming an increasingly unstable source of income as YT seems to shift towards more family focused content and lean more on traditional networks.
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Edited by Chubbums: 10/13/2018 4:26:27 AMShould you expect to keep getting money off of someone else's work though? I don't know how the people who work on games feel about some guy making 5 times as much as them in a month vs what they make in a year. Here I am putting effort into a project with a team of dedicated people trying bring an good gaming experience to the masses and yet some guy sitting on a carseat looking chair is getting paid more than my entire team combined playing it.... Then to top it off the youtube guy bitches when he doesn't get as much revenue as he'd like using my work.
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You have a severely skewed perception of how much MOST gaming youtubers make. Have you ever tried to do it? It's not easy. To us they're just playing games but they have to record, edit, and maintain a persona. That doesn't sound like much till you start compounding that with the rate Youtube demands content to be pumped out for them to stay in the algorithm. If a youtuber wants a break then they have to be pouring in an 80 hour week of little to no sleep to record and edit massive amounts of videos to maintain there content schedule just to get two or three days off. Anyone who's actually tried to do it knows it's not easy. The level of work that actually gets put in to a lot of these channels is extensive, time consuming, and emotionally draining. Not to mention most of these people started their channels on their own, put in their own money, and taught themselves how to edit video. I've tried to do the youtube thing. Tracking views, comments, maintaining that "Youtuber persona mask every second you play, regardless of whether or not you actually want to do it. Putting in 40-50 hours of video editing time a week to get no results or feedback. I've worked in IT, as an automotive tech, in a stockroom, and in fast food, so called "real jobs" pusing 40-65 hour weeks. Trying to maintain a content schedule on your own and maintaining a mask no matter your mood, basically putting on an act every second you do something that would normally be relaxing is way more difficult than any of my real jobs. You basically take something you love and try to make it a job but in the process, all the things we don't see in videos adds up. You don't make a fun hobby a career, what you actually do is take away the fun from your hobby, its not fun, its just work and even more so than a "real job" you can't stop. "Real" jobs give you sick days, paid vacation, stable consistent income, and typically an easy way to just come back and keep going. Most Youtubers that take time off without putting in double or triple the hours to keep their content schedule rolling for those 2 or 3 days they just wanna play a game without smiling for the camera or are actually coming down with strep throat or something? They will comeback to find youtube's algorithm has thrown everything they work for in the trash and they'll have to fight tooth and nail for as long as a year to just pop up on a recommended tab again. Just cause ignorant assholes don't know what it actually takes to run a channel and hate their shitty jobs doesn't mean that these people don't put in real work to chase their dreams. And that's not to mention the courage for some of these people, to put themselves out in the public to be judged and criticized by ignorant people that have no clue or interest in what they really had to do to get there. There are plenty of youtubers out there that dont put in the effort and the hours but to shit on all of them just because you don't know what it actually takes is ignorant. You don't watch them for the game, you watch them for them for tips, for jokes, for their personality. Most companies love when their game is big on youtube because its ton of free publicity. If a lot of you ignorant little shits put even half the effort in your lives that some of those youtubers do, I guarantee you'd be in a better place where other people fighting for their dreams wouldn't rustle your little jimmies.