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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My "favorite" lecture from young people is the one in which they berate me for "stealing content" by not watching ads on YouTube.

I have a vivid memory of YouTube being a platform where normal people could share videos of their kids and pets or other fun random low quality but entertaining things

[–] Beefytootz@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why they think we care if we're stealing content regardless. I pirate movies and TV shows, but they don't whine about that, in fact, most will approve of it. Why draw the line at YouTubers?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They often say that we're screwing the person who runs the channel. In reality, I'm willing to bet my left nutsack that they make a fuckton more from the occasional donations than from ads, once Google, MCNs, and the government take their share.

[–] art@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have a small channel (5k) and YouTube ads make about 40% of what I earn.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You’d make more with Pateron

[–] art@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, just a little. My patreon is the other 60%. But don't discount the first 40%.

[–] brewbart@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

You'd make even more if you'd switch to Ko-Fi as they only take a flat fee per month

[–] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There was 4 Jeffery Epstines on the grassy knoll that melted the steel beams that killed Malcome L King!

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can't even begin to dismantle everything that's wrong with that. To start, the Epsteinsgates event was a false flag perpetrated in response to Hunter Biden outlawing red hats in 2018. Popular video essayist Malcom X. King Jr later satirized these events in his humorous Patreon exclusive of the same name.

Lest we forget

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Never forget.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I find the opposite more annoying. If your memory of those events is accurate there's plenty of things to point to to back it up.

But then you have older people like my father who...I don't know, something has completely rewritten their memories of significant events to the point where he claims many things happened differently than verifiable recorded history. It's impossible to argue with that because of him seeing me pointing out that's not true as an attack and accusing him of lying.

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

something has completely rewritten their memories of significant events to the point where he claims many things happened differently than verifiable recorded history.

That's what they want you to think.

Sadly, "they" has shifted from "the gubment" to "the Jews".

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

It was weird to read about protests that I attended that were completely different from my experience. That was the first time I realized that no one in the media necessarily eventually gets the story right.