So Now I Have Even More Reason To Hate Youtube and Its Stars...
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It's just like professional sports. There's a high demand, so lots of money is made, so people get paid a lot, despite doing something nearly pointless.
If these people just made videos I wouldn't be annoyed at all. I mean, I would be annoyed if I was forced to watch their videos, but I don't so thats fine.lma0nade said:
On the other hand, the fact that they get paid a lot of money is what people don't like. They earn more than pretty much all members of the Escapist forums, more than Doctors, teachers etc. heck, they even earn more than higher quality YouTube contributers.
There is an underlying sense of unfairness to this.
On the other hand, I don't think this unfairness is any worse than pretty much all actors, pop musicians and sportsmen, but we are sortof used to this now.
Hell, I wish I could do that.
And Shane's a pretty cool guy.
[small] (He dresses up like girls and doesn't afraid of anything.)[/small]
And Shane's a pretty cool guy.
[small] (He dresses up like girls and doesn't afraid of anything.)[/small]
Im glad they get paid. I get free entertainment and this way jobs don't get in the way of them providing good material. Now the system is broken badly with who gets the money but i really don't see the deal.
"How dare the rich google pay money to people trying to provide entertainment? RAWR!" People acting like that are idiots.
Sure im not a fan of all of them but with youtube its fairly easy to pick and choose, who you want to see.
"How dare the rich google pay money to people trying to provide entertainment? RAWR!" People acting like that are idiots.
Sure im not a fan of all of them but with youtube its fairly easy to pick and choose, who you want to see.
Well, it's not like they're taking the money from you is it?
I get annoyed by youtube due to teh ammount of shit i have to dig through to find what i want, cause people completely lack a sense of self-critique (just watch the audition round to some talent show if you doubt me) The reason it annoys me, is because it becomes harder to find teh good stuff, when browsing through all the crap loaded up.
The fact taht some of the popular video series makes shitloads of money doesn't really bother me though, cause it doesn't affect me the slightest.
But look at it this way, if theres some dude you want to support, spam-click his adds (or make a video, and make a program to spam-click your OWN ADDS if you're hardcore liek that) that way he (or you) will make money.
I get annoyed by youtube due to teh ammount of shit i have to dig through to find what i want, cause people completely lack a sense of self-critique (just watch the audition round to some talent show if you doubt me) The reason it annoys me, is because it becomes harder to find teh good stuff, when browsing through all the crap loaded up.
The fact taht some of the popular video series makes shitloads of money doesn't really bother me though, cause it doesn't affect me the slightest.
But look at it this way, if theres some dude you want to support, spam-click his adds (or make a video, and make a program to spam-click your OWN ADDS if you're hardcore liek that) that way he (or you) will make money.
Those Yahoo numbers are "Estimates" not actual numbers. It's just like when you hear that a star has an estimated worth of $40 million dollars. It's not that they have $40 mil in the bank at the moment but they have the "potential" to make $40 million dollars through the life of their career. But that's a big "but" because no one will know if they will still be popular in the future as they are now. Odds are, they probably won't
As for these Youtube stars their actual pay checks range from $1,000 - $2,500 a month. A decent salary but no more than someone with a college degree and an entry level job. Yeah they get money from the ad revenue but nobody clicks on the ads. Otherwise, Facebook would be making bank right now. Anyhow, you can tell that Youtubers don't make much because their surroundings are so middle class. They also post and make videos on a daily basis. I'm sure work that's a 80 hrs a week; brainstorming ideas, editing, directing, and promoting on Twitter/Youtube/Facebook/Answering Emails/IMs. So in the end they probably get paid #$3.12 - $7.81 - $10 per hour. So I would not envy any Youtube star.
They also rarely upgrade their filming equipment. Believe me if they were getting $100,000 and up, they would have far better production values. Or at the very least better clothes.
Don't get me wrong. They might get an extra $5,000 here or there, promoting some product but on the celebrity food chain they are the lowest of the low. Heck, people who star in lifetime movies make more money in one picture than Youtube stars make in a year.
As for these Youtube stars their actual pay checks range from $1,000 - $2,500 a month. A decent salary but no more than someone with a college degree and an entry level job. Yeah they get money from the ad revenue but nobody clicks on the ads. Otherwise, Facebook would be making bank right now. Anyhow, you can tell that Youtubers don't make much because their surroundings are so middle class. They also post and make videos on a daily basis. I'm sure work that's a 80 hrs a week; brainstorming ideas, editing, directing, and promoting on Twitter/Youtube/Facebook/Answering Emails/IMs. So in the end they probably get paid #$3.12 - $7.81 - $10 per hour. So I would not envy any Youtube star.
They also rarely upgrade their filming equipment. Believe me if they were getting $100,000 and up, they would have far better production values. Or at the very least better clothes.
Don't get me wrong. They might get an extra $5,000 here or there, promoting some product but on the celebrity food chain they are the lowest of the low. Heck, people who star in lifetime movies make more money in one picture than Youtube stars make in a year.
All of my YouTube subscriptions are copyrighted-material aggregators (12Medbe for Whose Line videos, LikeTheHat and Khadgar34 for Good Eats episodes...)
Sole exception: Retsupurae. Those guys are awesome (and even their stuff relies on copyrighted material---games being Let's Played poorly---for content). But other original content creators are uniformly annoying and lame and I don't watch any of them.
Sole exception: Retsupurae. Those guys are awesome (and even their stuff relies on copyrighted material---games being Let's Played poorly---for content). But other original content creators are uniformly annoying and lame and I don't watch any of them.
I'm surprised not one mentioned RayWilliamJohnson of =3...last time i checked he is the 3rd most subscribed person on youtube...i've seen this report before also and he isn't on it...
and to me he is well deserving of his fame...hell when he shows a video of people THEY become famous and people watch the videos by the thousands...but since he does not appear on this list am i to assume he does not make money from his videos?
if this true then hate does not apply to him...if you dont who he is i suggest you check him out (even tho i haven't watched him in months) but his videos are funny...
and to me he is well deserving of his fame...hell when he shows a video of people THEY become famous and people watch the videos by the thousands...but since he does not appear on this list am i to assume he does not make money from his videos?
if this true then hate does not apply to him...if you dont who he is i suggest you check him out (even tho i haven't watched him in months) but his videos are funny...
Most of these guys are comedians who are smart enough to know how to market themselves. I can't begrudge them for playing the game. I'd be far more peeved if Tila Tequila made all her money pandering to the internet masses.
One word.
TOBUSCUS!
Home of the brilliant Halo Reach and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood literal trailers.
EDIT: Oh, and Shane Dawson...well from what i've seen he looks like one of those scene twats that thinks he's funny because he dresses up as girls and acts gay a lot.
I see why he's so popular then.
TOBUSCUS!
Home of the brilliant Halo Reach and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood literal trailers.
EDIT: Oh, and Shane Dawson...well from what i've seen he looks like one of those scene twats that thinks he's funny because he dresses up as girls and acts gay a lot.
I see why he's so popular then.
It's not Youtube or the guys who make the videos in this list, fault. If people find them good enough to make advertising companies buy space on their site, they're obviously doing something right.
I've never heard of any of these people before though, because I don't waste that much time on youtube other than direct searchs for music videos.
I've never heard of any of these people before though, because I don't waste that much time on youtube other than direct searchs for music videos.
