Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto

• qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is a terrible take, as most content creators I watch already cannot serve off of Youtube ad revenue and rely on third-party monetization, like Patreon subscriptions.

  Besides the fact that plenty of people make content for free, from the simple love of creating something.

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  • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Didn’t YouTube start without ads? Was doing fine back then, right?

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think it had prerolls during the flash days but it had banner ads as far back as I can remember

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      • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Flash… flash macromedia… the golden age.

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    • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well, no. It’s been losing money for years. But I doubt this will make it profitable.

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    • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think people were doing it professionally as much back then.

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      • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        People started doing it professionally when the ad money came in. Before that people did it for the love of the content, and it was lower production quality, but better content.

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• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lots of people did it on YouTube for years. Even more on other platforms.

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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  NoBOdY wIlL dO AnYThiNg wItHOuT PrOfiT mOtIvE

  This book, YouTube’s history, and the span of human history say otherwise. You’re spouting capitalist rhetoric which is ultimately a lie told to us on repeat to encourage greed, selfishness, and individualism.

  The platform you’re using right now was built without profit motive, there’s plenty of content. PeerTube can achieve the same.

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• athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Except for all the people already making unpaid content. I guess if you ignore them then yeah, you’re right. Great job advancing the conversation in a meaningful way.

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• sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You obviously didn’t experience the early internet

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• NKBTN@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People will create plenty of content for free. Basically every blog, early YT video and all of Wikipedia was made by people who just like creating stuff for free

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• sp3ctre@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are already some youtubers linking to their patreon because their content gets demonetized frequently (shiey, gifgas).

  I think this could be the way to go. If you actually want the content, pay for it. Instead of patreon, liberapay could also be used.

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• ozoned@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m creating content and YouTube pulls from my Peertube. So I’ll never lose it. All of these content creators are leaning on Patreon as none of them can count on ad revenue anymore. So people are already doing it.

  And Peer tube will never fully replace YouTube, but also, it doesn’t have to. Your local library, school, church, community space, doesn’t need ad revenue.

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