Not anymore, people have jobs which take up at least 8 hours of their day,
You think people didn’t used to have jobs?
Anyone who seriously want to make quality videos on a consistent schedule wants to make money and the end goal being to turn it into their job.
“Quality” is subjective and doesn’t necessarily require much money.
Most of it actually has nothing to do with Youtube
Thank you for elaborating on my point.
No one is going to a platform thats “just for fun”
Thousands of people already are. Myself included.
And it’s not “just for fun”, it’s because we don’t want to subject ourselves to abusive and invasive corporations.
Sackeshi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Back then videos were a lot less produced and more raw style. When I first started using/watching youtube in 09 content was a lot quicker to make.
The requiring money isn’t about cost to produce its the time it takes. Most successful channels now have several hours of editing for each video because the average standard of videos now looks like it could be produced for TV.
I agree with this on paper, but in practice the “customer base” is currently Youtube and TikTok. If I want to create a serious channel with a lot of views and a large community I’d need to spend all my free time making and editing videos and without a real chance to monetize its just not worth it.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 days ago
I’m noticing a recurring theme here. You seem to think every channel and video needs to be really high production quality for some reason. They don’t. Look at channels like penguinz0 and SomeOrdinaryGamers. Both of them are just dudes talking into shitty webcams with the trashiest of production value and both of them have tens of million of subscribers. And it’s especially impressive considering it’s easier than ever to make high quality productions.