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toad31@lemmy.cif.su ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Waaaay less money to be made there. Not saying he’s exclusively doing this for the money like the other reply, but we’re not talking about some solo guy making videos in his free time for fun. The man is running a business, needs money to make this videos happen, and to my knowledge this is his job.

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  • Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can someone explain me why creators cant do both?

    Its in their interest to have a solid backup when youtube inevitably dies.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’d be dangerous to his revenue stream.

      If he reduces views on YT, the algo will recommend him less. His internal sponsors won’t pay more for the non YT content so he’ll just be gutting his own traffic if it takes off. Assuming he has disks around with all his finished content on it, he could stand it up later if he wanted, but it’s not like Peertube can host an unlimited amount of video for free. Someone is paying for those disks and for the transfer of those bits.

      Ideally, he’d stand up his own PT and we’d share in watching his stuff and reduce costs Peer style. But he’s still going to be out a serious payment stream and the PT network can’t just perpetually bare the cost of his storage.

      It’s like if LMG wanted to host their back catalog, we’d need peer tube hosts with a PB of storage sitting around ready to take his catalog.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      this is speculation, but it’s possible that youtube don’t like it when large mainstream creators have backup platforms and will start cracking down.

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    • OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s definitely an option. It would be a good idea for him to do that, I think. But my main point is that losing YouTube would be devastating for GN regardless of whether or not they’re on peertube, and moving entirely to peertube isn’t really feasible for them

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• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I do not understand why creators feel the need to be exclusively on one platform. Simply crosspost the videos.

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  • yarr@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    $$$ that’s why. YouTube gives the greatest return. If they post to multiple platforms, not only is it more work, but they then also subtract from the number of views they get on YouTube. It’s all about the $$$.

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    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In their documentary GamersNexus stated that they would air it without advertisements if a certain treshold of funding was reached. I imagine Patreon, their store and other sources make GamersNexus more money than Youtube advertisement. And it is certainly not their only source.

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      • yarr@feddit.nl ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        If those other sources make more money and get more viewers, why did it start on YouTube?

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• kadup@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That would defeat the entire purpose of sensationalist headlines and blowing up a Google search as a “deep investigation” which is this channel’s main source of attention.

  They want the clicks on YouTube. Moving to PeerTube would be great if they just wanted the information to be out there, but that’s not their primary concern.

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  • Laser@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think they’re sensationalist, they just don’t sugarcoat the industry bullshit. And believe it or not, they need to make money from this, it doesn’t pay itself. It’s like saying newspapers should be free, or else informing the people isn’t their primary concern.

    “A farmer wants the money. Giving the good away for free would be great if they just wanted to feed people, but that’s not their primary concern.” Can even pay that game for nurses etc

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    • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they just don’t sugarcoat

      To the contrary, they massively inflate whatever they can find that will gather clicks.

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Examples?

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Source of attention? By flying to another country and getting access to areas people never even knew? Lol wtf are you on about?

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  • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lemmy simps really hard for gamers nexus, even though they’re just a drama channel at this point.

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    • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Their bread and butter is hardware reviews and weekly news. No, they’re not a drama channel. Telling Linus to fuck off is a good idea regardless of views.

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      • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Simp spotted. Tech drama Jesus isn’t gonna like you more for defending him, he doesn’t even care that you exist.

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• TBi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah. He’d be better off on floatplane. I wonder why he isn’t… 🤔

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    LOL, the world may never know.

    I’m still not sure which side of that whole thing i’m on. I know he’s less annoying than Linus. But even Billit labs seems to have less hate for LMG than he does :)

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