I made a couple of youtubes once, cost me a microphone for maybe 50€ because I wanted a cordless one for other uses, but a 20€ one would totally do it too. Then mounted it in some FOSS app and upload it for free… Not expensive at all.
I don’t know why you’re so confused, and condescending? There are loads of youtubers that live off youtube, so you have to learn to cut through the bullshit, but they convey real information, that yes you have to stitch together yourself, knowing it’s not perfect. Ukrainian youtubers have their bias, americans theirs etc. There is not a one information pool to get it all from, never have been.
You sound like you only have experience with usa tv and joe rogan like youtubers.
Sure there are many youtubers who can start out small and scale up, but scaling up involves making those connections I was talking about before. You’re eventually going to get approached by sponsors. If your channel discusses political topics, you will probably be contacted by people who want to advertise within those topics. The average person cannot achieve the production quality that the bigger channels can.
Sure, but then it’s time to dump that person/channel. Or decide it’s okay and try to “think” around it (say a video game channel will be pushing hardware and games, not that life-changing IMO).
It can be difficult, but there are “good” people doing their best, and what choice do we have? Discuss, cross check, look out for all types of patterns… Not easy when the Kremlin (and others ofc) has a big budget…
Yeah, and even without the bad actors you can feel the need for monetisation fucking things up. It’s a neverending whack a mole game . Stay safe stay sane as they say!
… yeah dude. Yeah. Even youtubers.
I am absolutely amazed by your thought process but I’m not going to waste my time reeling.
Yes, youtubers get paid by superpacs and shit like that. Yes youtubers get anonymous donations. Yes youtubers have political agendas.
If you’re American and can afford all the equipment for Youtube, you come from a rich family or you have a sponsor.
I made a couple of youtubes once, cost me a microphone for maybe 50€ because I wanted a cordless one for other uses, but a 20€ one would totally do it too. Then mounted it in some FOSS app and upload it for free… Not expensive at all.
I don’t know why you’re so confused, and condescending? There are loads of youtubers that live off youtube, so you have to learn to cut through the bullshit, but they convey real information, that yes you have to stitch together yourself, knowing it’s not perfect. Ukrainian youtubers have their bias, americans theirs etc. There is not a one information pool to get it all from, never have been.
You sound like you only have experience with usa tv and joe rogan like youtubers.
Sure there are many youtubers who can start out small and scale up, but scaling up involves making those connections I was talking about before. You’re eventually going to get approached by sponsors. If your channel discusses political topics, you will probably be contacted by people who want to advertise within those topics. The average person cannot achieve the production quality that the bigger channels can.
Sure, but then it’s time to dump that person/channel. Or decide it’s okay and try to “think” around it (say a video game channel will be pushing hardware and games, not that life-changing IMO).
It can be difficult, but there are “good” people doing their best, and what choice do we have? Discuss, cross check, look out for all types of patterns… Not easy when the Kremlin (and others ofc) has a big budget…
A few content creators and independent news organizations I used to follow turned out to be funded by Russia, so I’m a lot more skeptical now
Yeah, and even without the bad actors you can feel the need for monetisation fucking things up. It’s a neverending whack a mole game . Stay safe stay sane as they say!