of course… but plenty are. When you see kids at school saying they want to be content creators as a job you know it is only going to get worse. I never said it was right or wrong but it is exactly what it is for a large percentage of people. Also can’t get past the fact that like googling something, watching a video on youtube is literally in peoples vocabulary
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MouldyCat@feddit.uk 10 months agoSharing knowledge. Lots of people are not primarily motivated by greed.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 10 months ago
matcha_addict@lemy.lol 10 months ago
I don’t want to watch the people who aspire to do it as a job. They saw some influences online who are profit driven and think they can get similarly rich. Many see it as an easy job (it’s not).
I want to watch people motivated by their thirst for creativity and sharing knowledge, and if money comes their way they will see it as secondary. I would prefer them to do something else as a job.
rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Should teachers stop making money too?
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Of course not but some may do free workshops just because they feel it may help their community.
I don’t work for free either but if my neighbor needs a new alternator or cabinet door fixed I will help/ show them how to fix it.
rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Most creators just ask voluntary donations for very few exclusive or temporary exclusivity
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Makes sense
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
What content have you produced for free? Do you consider yourself greedy when you cash your work paychecks?
I know first hand that making content is a lot of work
Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
I’ve made and shared plenty of 3d models for the 3D printing community. People can certainly make it a job, and that’s perfectly reasonable. But, I will never be interested in a community of for-profit model makers. If their goal is to make money off me, it’s not a community, I’m just a customer. The point of the community is to learn and share information, to help people and be helped in return. If that time is ‘work’ for you, don’t do it. Or make content and sell it on YouTube, do what you want, I’m just not interested in it.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
That’s great to aspire for but there’s still an almost total lack of content in many genres I enjoy on YouTube. I don’t even think PeerTube has progressed as far as the Lemmy community in terms of content availability. Admittedly this is probably because text and image content is much easier to create, but as a user I don’t find much reason to spend time there yet.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 months ago
What kinda stuff do you like on youtube?
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Not the person you’re asking, but I mostly watch craft stuff, particularly 1:12 scale dollhouse miniatures and sewing. The most recent video I could find that was even remotely relevant is several months old and about a different kind of miniature.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
Best you can do is ask some of these content creators to also post their videos to PeerTube.
PeerTube has built-in syncing of YouTube channels, so it’s fairly easy once it’s set up.
deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wanting to get paid for your work, so that you can keep making stuff, is in fact not the same thing as greed. We have this assumption that everything on the Web should be free, or at least helped along by donations, but it’s not sustainable.