On the other hand, If everyone would use adblockers, maybe content creator market would evolve into viewers supporting their favorite creators directly, or youtube having a subscription model that is much better than a current one in a way of user experience and creator support.
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PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 days agoNormies just wont. It is just not what they do. And they are the majority.
And that’s actually a good thing. If 90% of users used ad blockers on youtube, their profit model wouldn’t work and they’d stat locking more behind a subscription or they’d double down on cracking adblockers. We can enjoy an ad blocked youtube experience because the majority of users don’t.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
i tried to “unblock” my ads for some channel owners, nope instant bombard with tons of ads.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 days ago
Trust me, there’s no way people are going to fund creators that much.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Patreon would like a word.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 days ago
If Patreon was enough, youtubers wouldn’t enable midroll ads
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Literally a bunch of martial arts YouTubers that keep getting asked by fans if they would play D&D together, so they started a patreon/gofundme and got back almost 500% of their funding goal in only 2 days.
People absolutely would/will fund the creators they care about.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
I’ll add a few from my own experience.
Few years back I found Civvie11 on youtube. He just had released the first Pro Blood video and I liked it so much, I opened my patreon account and subbed to him. At that time he had around $500 a month from patrons. I think not even a year has passed, when I checked for patron content, he had $3000 a month going only from patrons. For a small channel like his, that is quite a sum of money to receive. Today he has 485k subs and $4300 a month off patrons. Not bad imo for a not so popular gaming channel.
Another nice example: decino is pulling $1000 a month with a tiny 200k sub YT channel pretty much only about Doom gameplay.
For larger channels with multiple millions of subs and a patreon or some other crowdfunding sources putting ads into their videos they are pulling much more. Not to mention paid ads in their vids.
Also, twitch proves that people are willing to spend 5 bucks a month for their favorite content creator. This is totally possible to run youtube clone funded by viewers.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
i think people are unaware that google takes most of the ad revenue from them, thats why they use PATREON as a source.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nah youtube will never stop being free no matter how many are ad blocking. They’d loose billions of active users and Alphabet’s shareholders will shit their pants. Content creators will all leave because they can’t pay the bills with 3,000 views a day.
Youtube doesn’t actually loose anything from ad blocking. It’s advertisers who lose out and it’s easier for youtube to scam them than us.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lose, not loose. Loose uses a soft S, and means uncoupled, held in a less firm grip.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Bruh, it’s not even hard to tell that it was a typo. Nobody asked for dictionary.com.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
content creators mostly use patreon, brand deals and promotions, they know AD revenue is in the drain or they selling thier own products on thier channel.